Librarian Profiles

Doug Amos
Margaret Arnold
Shannon Burchard
Lee Ryan
John Shafer
Amy Wright

   

415-422-2243
dcamos@usfca.edu

Doug received his B.A. in Letters with Minors in Latin and Judaic Studies from the University of Oklahoma in 1999 and a M.L.I.S. from the University of Oklahoma in 2002. While attending graduate school, Doug worked at the University of Oklahoma Bizzell Memorial Library providing interlibrary loan and document delivery services to university faculty, staff and students. After completing his M.L.I.S., Doug served as the Technical Services Librarian at Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma City. Prior to joining USF, Doug served for nearly four years as an Assistant Law Librarian at the California Judicial Center Library in San Francisco. His main duties at the California Judicial Center Library included providing research and reference services as well as technical services to the California Supreme Court and the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District. Doug is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries and the Northern California Association of Law Libraries.

   

415-422-2249
burchards@usfca.edu

Shannon began working in libraries while an undergraduate at the University of California, Riverside in the library's Acquisitions Department. She first began working at the Zief Law Library while obtaining her Master’s in Library and Information Science. After she received her graduate degree, Shannon worked as the coordinator of serials at the University of Delaware and as the Electronic Services Librarian at the San Francisco Law Library. She returned to USF in 2000 and oversees most of the back of house activities at Zief Law Library. Shannon is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries and the Northern California Association of Law Libraries.

   

415-422-2253
ryanl at usfca.edu

Lee received a B.A. in Classics, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a director of the Thomas Swan Barristers' Union. She received her M.L.I.S degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and before attending library school she was a litigator at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle, Brown & Enersen. Lee's duties include providing research advice and reference assistance to students and faculty, teaching online legal research to first-year students, presenting research training sessions to advanced moot court teams and upper-division topical seminars, and serving as an adviser to the University of San Francisco Law Review. She is a member of the California bar, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the Northern California Association of Law Libraries.

   

415-422-2240
shaferj at usfca.edu
Since his graduation from USF Law School in 1986, John has worked in the world of legal information and research. As one of the original Westlaw Academic Representatives and later in his work at the law library, he has witnessed the shift in legal research and materials from exclusively print oriented resources to the digital world of today. John's teaching roles outside of library training include California Legal Research. He has also acted as an Adjunct Professor teaching legal research techniques to participants in the USF LLM program. John is especially interested in intellectual property law, cyberlaw and digital security, California law, and law in popular culture. He is a member of the California Bar as well as the American Association of Law Libraries.

   

415-422-5112
ajwright@usfca.edu

Amy received a B.A. in History from Dartmouth College in 1990 (cum laude), a J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law in 1997 (magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, and Thurston Society), and a M.L.I.S. degree from San Jose State University in 2005. During law school, she was a member of the Hastings Law Journal. Prior to her arrival at USF, Amy was a reference librarian and lecturer-in-law at Santa Clara University School of Law, teaching Advanced Legal Research to upper-division students. She also practiced health care law for over five years at two Bay Area law firms and as in-house counsel at a large California-based hospital system. Her law practice concentrated upon physician-hospital contracting relationships and Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse laws. Amy teaches Advanced Legal Research at USF. She is a member of the California bar, the American Association of Law Libraries and the Northern California Association of Law Libraries.