Professor Sharon Hamby O'Connor is a Professor Emeritus at Boston College Law School. Most recently she served 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 delivery of academic services to students. Before assuming that position, she was Associate Dean for Library and Computing Services at BC Law 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.

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 (Council Member, 1999-2002), and the American Association of Law Libraries.

EDUCATION

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

RECENT ACTIVITIES:

Presentations: Invited speaker at the Living the Future Conference sponsored by the University of Arizona Library and the Association of College and Research Libraries, in Tucson, Arizona, April 2000; "Managing Organizational Change" at a meeting of directors of the New England Law Library Consortium at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, March 2000.

Activities: As visiting scholar for the spring semester at Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, continued research on colonial appeals to the Privy Council before American independence.

Appointments: Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Harvard Law School Library 2006. Academic Technology Advisory Board of Boston College, 2001-2002; Advisory Committee to the President for Selection of Executive Vice-President of Boston College, 2001; Vice-President of the New England Law Library Consortium for the term 2000-2002; President of the Conference of Law Libraries of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, 2000.

COURSES:

Fall '07: No courses taught
Spring '08: No courses taught

PUBLICATIONS:

"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).