Sharon Hamby O'Connor is a Professor Emerita at Boston College Law School. During her tenure at the Law School she served as Associate Dean for Library and Computing Services for 23 years.  In that capacity she was responsible, with the rest of the library staff, for providing academic, curricular and technology support to the Law School.  She completed her service at the Law School as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.  in this position she worked with the Dean and faculty in areas of curriculum review, program development, and research and oversaw the deliver of academic services to students.

Professor O'Connor is a graduate of Southern Methodist University, holds masters degrees from Columbia University and Yale University in library science and environmental studies respectively, and a JD degree from Harvard Law School. She is the co-author of A Guide to the Early Reports of the Supreme Court of the United States which was awarded the Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award for outstanding contribution to legal bibliography. She is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the American Society for Legal History.

EDUCATION

B.A., Southern Methodist University; M.S.L.S., Columbia University; J.D., Harvard University; M.E.S., Yale University.

RECENT ACTIVITIES:

"Colonial Appeals to the Privy Council before American Independence" is in preparation as a web site, sponsored by the Ames Foundation.  The site will make briefs and related documents from these appeals available in digital form.

Presentations: Invited speaker at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2011; invited speaker at the memorial service for Morris L. Cohen held at the Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, May 1, 2011; also at the Yale Law School at its reception to recognize the gift of the Juvenile Jurisprudence collection to the Yale Law Library, December 2, 2009.

Appointments: Advisory, Harvard Law School Search Committee for Library Director, 2007-2008.  Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Harvard Law School Library, 2006; Visiting Scholar, Yale Law School, Spring 2005.

COURSES:

Fall 2011: No courses taught
Spring 2012: No courses taught

PUBLICATIONS:

"Appeals to the Privy Council before American Independence: An Annotated Digital Catalogue." (with Mary Sarah Bilder), Law Library Journal 104, no.1 (Winter 2012).

"Care and Maintenance of the Successful Career: How Experienced Law Librarians Make Their Work Rewarding." Law Library Journal 93, no.4 (Fall 2001): 535-587. O'Connor contribution on p. 573-574.

With Morris L. Cohen. A Guide to the Early Reports of the Supreme Court of the United States. Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1995. [A portion of this book originally appeared as "A Bibliography of the Early Reports of the Supreme Court of the United States." Legal Reference Services Quarterly 1, no. 2/3 (Summer-Fall 1981): 43-144.]

Sharon Hamby and Anne Robbins, compilers. Publications of the Faculty, Deans and Librarians. Newton, MA: Boston College Law School, 1990. (Revised and expanded 1995 with Ann McDonald and Michael Mitsukawa).