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Keith Ann Stiverson, 1949 –

HALL OF FAME INDUCTION: 2023

Significant Ƶ Service

Keith Ann Stiverson

  • Chair, Government Relations Committee, 1999–2000, 2000–2001, 2006–2007
  • Chair, Copyright Committee, 2002–2003, 2007–2008, 2008–2009
  • Member, Planning Committee, Ƶ National Summit on Authentic Legal Information in the Digital Age, 2006–2007
  • Ƶ Observer, Uniform Law Commission, Drafting Committee on Authentication and Preservation of Electronic State Legal Materials, 2010–2012
  • Ƶ Vice President/President-Elect, 2014–2015
  • Ƶ President, 2015–2016
  • Ƶ Immediate Past-President, 2016–2017
  • Chair, Nominations Committee, 2018–2019

Professional Honors and Awards

  • Ƶ Presidential Certificates of Merit and Appreciation, 2001, 2007, 2011
  • Chicago Association of Law Libraries, Agnes and Harvey Reid Award for Outstanding Contribution to Law Librarianship, 2014
  • Chicago Association of Law Libraries, Lifetime Achievement in Law Librarianship Award, 2019
  • Ƶ Robert L. Oakley Advocacy Award, 2019
  • Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award, 2023
  • Ƶ Hall of Fame, Inductee, 2023

Selected Publications by the Inductee

  • “Copyright Infringement as an Unfair Act: The Galaxian Video Game Case at the ITC,” Law and Policy in International Business 14 (1982): 521–45.
  • “Citation Studies—Measuring Rods of Judicial Reputation?” Cardozo Law Review 12 (1991): 1969–74 (with Lynn Wishart).
  • “Other Legal and General Research and Reference Aids,” in Fundamentals of Legal Research, 7th ed., edited by J. Myron Jacobstein, Roy M. Mersky, and Donald J. Dunn, ch. 19. New York: Foundation Press, 1998.
  • “Administrative Law,” in Fundamentals of Legal Research, 9th ed., edited by Steven M. Barkan, Roy M. Mersky, and Donald J. Dunn, ch. 13. New York: Foundation Press, 2009.
  • “125 Years of Law Books, 1888–2013,” in Then & Now: Stories of Law and Progress on the Occasion of the 125th Anniversary of IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, edited by Lori B. Andrews and Sarah K. Harding, 88–93. Chicago: IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2013.
  • “Authentication—Whose Job? A Reply to Rich Leiter,” Trends in Law Library Management and Technology 23 (2013): 19–21.
  • “Obligations of All Law Library Directors,” in “‘Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide’: The Reality of Being a Law Library Director in Times of Great Opportunity and Significant Challenges,” Law Library Journal 107 (2015): 110–12.

Selected Publications about the Inductee

  • Keith Ann Stiverson, Interview. In An Oral History of Law Librarianship, interviewed by Frank G. Houdek, December13, 2013, videorecording. Spinelli’s Law Library Reference Shelf, HeinOnline.
  • “Leader Profile: Risk Taker, Mover and Shaker,” Ƶ Spectrum 20 (September/October 2015): 40–42.
  • Claire Gaynor Willis, “Keith Ann Stiverson Receives Lifetime Achievement Award,” Chicago Association of Law Libraries Bulletin No. 252 (Summer 2019): 26–28.
  • Greg Ivy, “Gallagher Award Celebrates Outstanding Achievement In Law Librarianship: Joyce Manna Janto, Keith Ann Stiverson, Gail Warren, and Carol A. Watson Recognized for Service to the Profession,” Ƶ Spectrum 27 (July/August 2023): 40–42.

Professional Positions

  • Supervisor, MARC Editorial Division, Library of Congress, 1977–1981
  • Assistant Librarian, Chutick Law Library, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, 1984–1985
  • Attorney, Peck, Shaffer & Williams, Cincinnati, OH, 1985–1988
  • Special Assistant to the Law Librarian, Law Library of Congress, 1988–1996
  • Deputy Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law, Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas School of Law, 1996–2001
  • Director of the Law Library and Senior Lecturer, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2001–2018

Education

  • BS, Rio Grande College (Ohio), 1971
  • MSLS, Catholic University of America, 1977
  • JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 1983

Selected Professional Activities & Achievements (outside Ƶ)

  • Admitted to the Practice of Law, District of Columbia, 1984; Ohio, 1986
  • Program Chair, State Agency Libraries of Texas, 1997–1998
  • Member, Board of Directors, Friends of the Law Library of Congress, 1997–2003
  • Member, Committee on the Law Library of Congress, ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, 1998–2000, 2005–2008
  • Member, Accreditation Site Evaluation Teams, ABA, 2002–2018
  • Member, Accreditation Site Evaluation Teams, American Library Association, 2008–2018
  • Chair, Board of Directors, Legal Information Preservation Alliance, 2010