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Biography of Sara Sampson

Title: Head of Reference
Phone Number: 202-662-9144
Office Location: Williams, Room 204A
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Sara Sampson is the Head of Reference at the Law Library and an adjunct professor at the Law Center. She teaches Legal Research Skills for Practice and Introduction to Scholarly Note Writing. Sara also teaches online legal research in the Georgetown Paralegal Studies Program. Before joining Georgetown Law Library in 2006, she was a reference librarian at The Ohio State University Moritz Law Library and taught Legal Writing & Analysis and Legal Research. During her time at Ohio State, Sara developed an interest in election law and was part of the Election Law @ Moritz team. Before becoming a librarian, Sara clerked at the Ohio Fourth District Court of Appeals. Sara received her J.D., with honors, from The Ohio State University and her M.L.I.S. from Kent State University and is a member of the Ohio bar.

Publication List (2000 - Present)

Note: Links to selected articles are available below. Following is a list of what the links represent:
[HEIN] = Available on Hein Online

Forthcoming Works - Journal Articles & Working Papers
Sara Sampson & Yasmin Morais, A Content Analysis of Chat Transcripts in the Georgetown Law Library, (forthcoming).

Books
Sara Sampson & Katherine Hall, Ohio Legal Research (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press 2009). [BOOK]

Book Chapters & Collected Works
Sara Sampson, Researching Initiatives and Referenda: A Guide for Ohio, in Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law: Selected State Research Guides 257-264 (Beth Williams ed., London: Routledge 2009). [BOOK]

Sara Sampson, Appendix: Election Law Research Guide, in Election Law Cases and Materials 949-957 (Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Richard L. Hasen & Daniel P. Tokaji eds., Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press 2008). [BOOK]

Journal Articles
Sara Sampson, An Introduction to Election Law, Law. Libr. Lights, Spring 2007, at 8-11. [WWW]

Sara Sampson & Roger V. Skalbeck, Have You reddit? Exploring Ways to Digg Some del.icio.us Stories, Legal Info. Alert, May 2007, at 1, 8-9.

Sara Sampson, Researching Initiatives and Referenda: A Guide for Ohio, 26 Legal Reference Services Q. 257-264 (2007).

Sara Sampson, Will Everything Be Online in 10 Years?: What E-books Will Look Like in 2017, AALL Spectrum Sept./Oct. 2007, at 46-47 (reviewing AALL Annual Meeting Program J-5: "The E-book Report: Using Electronic Books in Your Law Library"). [WWW]

Book Reviews
Sara Sampson, 33 J. Acad. Librarianship 521 (2007) (reviewing Arlene Bielefield & Lawrence Cheeseman, Technology and Copyright Law: A Guidebook for the Library, Research, and Teaching Profession (2d ed. 2007)).

Sara Sampson, 99 Law Libr. J. 654-655 (2007) (reviewing Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law (2006)). [HEIN]

Sara Sampson, 98 Law Libr. J. 412-414 (2006) (reviewing John Blakeman, The Bible in the Park: Federal District Courts, Religious Speech, and the Public Forum (2005)). [HEIN]

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