About me
Alison Shea joined the University of St. Thomas Law School in 2024 as a Research Librarian. She has a B.A. from Boston University (2004), and a joint J.D./M.S.L.S. from The Catholic University of America (2007).
Alison's formal management experience was brief, having been promoted to Head of Reference/Foreign & International Specialist and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School in 2016 after serving as a reference librarian there for nine years.
As a trailing spouse, Alison left Fordham in 2018 to serve as the Public Services Librarian for the Nestlé Library at the Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration - a position vacated by co-presenter Kelly LaVoice and through which she got to know Megan Benson and Kelee Pacion.
In 2020 Alison became Research & Instructional Librarian (Foreign, Comparative & International Law) and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Cornell Law School, but continued to serve on and lead many Cornell University Library committees.
Although Alison has not held any formal managerial titles since 2018, she has been active coordinating programs, projects and people in a wide variety of professional associations . She has also served - both officially and unofficially - as a mentor to many newer librarians.
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