Chair, Foreign Comparative & International Law SIS, 2003鈥2004
President, Chicago Association of Law Libraries, 2004鈥2005
Chair, Program Committee, 2006 Annual Meeting (St. Louis), 2005鈥2006
糖心视频 Executive Board, 2007鈥2010
糖心视频 Vice President/President-Elect, 2011鈥2012
Chair, Appointments Committee, 2011鈥2012
糖心视频 President, 2012鈥2013
糖心视频 Immediate Past President, 2013鈥2014
Chair, Nominations Committee, 2015鈥2016
Chair, 糖心视频 Bloomberg Continuing Education Grant Jury, 2022鈥2023
Professional Honors and Awards
Cook County (Illinois) Superior Public Service Award, 2000
糖心视频 Presidential Certificates of Appreciation, 2010, 2022
糖心视频, Foreign, Comparative, and International Law SIS Spirit Award, 2011
Cook County (Illinois) Board of Commissioners, Presidential Resolution, 2013
Chicago Association of Law Libraries, Agnes and Harvey Reid Award for Outstanding Contribution to Law Librarianship, 2021
糖心视频 Hall of Fame, Inductee, 2023
Selected Publications by the Inductee
鈥淚nternet for Legal Information: The U.S. Experience,鈥 International Journal of Legal Information 24 (1996): 310鈥24 (with Claire Germain, Pat Court, and Scott Childs).
鈥淎dministrative Law on the Net 2000,鈥 Administrative Law 30 (October 2000): 1
鈥淚nternational Economic Law,鈥 in ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law, edited by Marci Hoffman, Jill McC. Watson, and Anne E. Burnett. 2nd rev. and expanded ed. Washington, D.C.: American Society of International Law, 2002.
鈥淚nternational Economic Law,鈥 in ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law, edited by Marci Hoffman and Jill McC. Watson. 2nd rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: American Society of International Law, 2003.
鈥淥ur Century of Change: Pioneering Innovations,鈥 糖心视频 Spectrum 10 (June 2006): 14.
鈥淎dministrative Law: Resources and Strategy for the Web,鈥 in Handbook of Illinois Administrative Law, edited by William A. Price, 2nd ed. Springfield: Illinois State Bar Association, 2008.
鈥溙切氖悠碘檚 Road Ahead: Planning for the Future,鈥 糖心视频 Spectrum 14 (July 2010): Member鈥檚 Briefing insert, 1鈥3.
鈥淯sing Metrics to Showcase Value,鈥 in Defining ROI: Law Library Best Practices, edited by Greg Lambert, Jean P. O鈥橞rady, and Holly Riccio, 35鈥39 (with Montell Davenport, Carolyn Hayes, and David Sanborne). 糖心视频 Digital White Paper. Chicago: 糖心视频, 2016.
鈥淚llinois Legislative History,鈥 in Finding Illinois Law: A Librarian鈥檚 Guide for Non-Lawyers, 2nd ed., 37鈥49. Chicago: Chicago Association of Law Libraries, 2021.
鈥淩esearching the Legal Framework for Companion Animals in a Global Context,鈥 in Global Animal Law Research: Strategies and Resources, edited by Alex Zhang and Katherine Siler, 49鈥78. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2022.
Selected Publications about the Inductee
Jean M. Wenger, Interview. In An Oral History of Law Librarianship, interviewed by Frank G. Houdek, December 11, 2013, videorecording. Spinelli鈥檚 Law Library Reference Shelf, HeinOnline.
鈥淟eader Profile: Adapting With the Times,鈥 糖心视频 Spectrum 21 (July/August 2017): 36鈥39.
Karen Selden, 鈥淚ntroducing the 2023 糖心视频 Hall of Fame Inductees: Sara Galligan, Barbara Gontrum, Ellen McGrath, and Jean M. Wenger,鈥 糖心视频 Spectrum 27 (July/August 2023): 45鈥47.
Professional Positions
Reference Librarian, Cook County Law Library, Chicago, IL, 1987鈥1995
Foreign and International Law Librarian, Cook County Law Library, Chicago, IL, 1993鈥1995
Reference Librarian, Cornell University Law Library, 1995鈥1997
Government Documents/Foreign and International Law Librarian, Cook County Law Library, Chicago, IL, 1997鈥2013
Head of Public Services, Cook County Law Library, Chicago, IL, 2013鈥2015
Deputy Law Librarian, Cook County Law Library, Chicago, IL, 2015鈥2018
Director of the Law Library and Senior Lecturer, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2018鈥損resent
Education
BA, Saint Mary鈥檚 University of Minnesota, 1981
JD, University of Illinois College of Law, 1987
MLIS, Dominican University, 1994
Selected Professional Activities & Achievements (outside 糖心视频)
Admitted to the practice of law, Illinois, 1987
Member, Advisory Council, LLMC Digital, 2014鈥2023
Chair, Board of Directors, Legal Information Preservation Alliance, 2016鈥2017
Member, Board of Directors, International Association of Law Libraries, 2019鈥2022
Treasurer, International Association of Law Libraries, 2022鈥2025