submitted by Gail Warren
On February 25, 2019, Kelsey I. Cox joined the Virginia
State Law Library as our new librarian.
Kelsey is from Chicago, Illinois, and currently lives
downtown in Richmond. In her free time,
she enjoys practicing yoga, painting, playing the piano, and hiking.
Kelsey attended Lake Forest College, graduating in 2015 with
a BA in Political Science and minors in Islamic World Studies and Legal
Studies. She earned the distinction of
Phi Beta Kappa and was her school’s first participant in its 3+3 BA/JD
accelerated law program. Kelsey
graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in May of 2017 and is licensed to
practice law in Illinois. Kelsey also
holds a MLIS degree from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.
In her role as librarian, Kelsey will be sharing
responsibility for staffing the Reference Desk and providing professional legal
reference and research assistance to judicial branch staff, attorneys and the
broader legal community, as well as members of the public who call or send us
email messages.
She arrived on her first
day of work with her own copy of A Guide
to Legal Research in Virginia (2017) in hand, so she is familiar with the
“ins” and “outs” of Virginia primary and secondary sources of legal
information.
Kelsey’s experience working
on metadata projects with the Law Library of Congress to make US Treaties and other International
Agreements available to the public has already proven to be invaluable as
she assumed responsibility for our law library’s participation in the Legal
Information Archive. Kelsey will be
identifying, harvesting and ingesting judicial branch publications and other
items for the Legal Information Archive, which migrated from OCLC’s digital
archive platform to Preservica in 2018.
Later this year, Kelsey also will begin working on content for the Virginia Judicial System Court Self-Help
website, which is hosted by our law library on behalf of the Virginia Access to
Justice Commission.
Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Kelsey and
look for her at the VALL meeting in May at Hunton Andrews Kurth!
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