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Dr. Laura Gasaway to speak at SILS winter commencement ceremony
Nov. 8, 2007 — Dr. Laura Gasaway, associate dean and professor at the School of Law and adjunct professor of practice at the School of Information and Library Science, will provide the keynote address at the School's winter commencement ceremony. The ceremony will take place in the Pleasants Family Room of the Louis Round Wilson Library on Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 10 a.m.
Dr. Gasaway joined the faculty of the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Law in 1985 as director of the law library and professor of law. In addition to her library responsibilities, she teaches courses on copyright and cyberspace law. She also teaches copyright law and legal resources in the UNC at Chapel Hill SILS. Gasaway was law library director at the University of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1984, where she directed and taught in the Law School's foreign program at Queen's College, Oxford, England, for three summers. From 1973 to 1975, she was law librarian and assistant professor of law at the University of Houston.
She is a past president of the American Association of Law Libraries and is active in the Special Libraries Association (SLA). She received the SLA's John Cotton Dana award in 1987 and was named a fellow of the association in 1988. Gasaway has served on the American Bar Association's Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and its accreditation committee. At UNC at Chapel Hill she has chaired the Committee on the Status of Women and the Women's Concerns Coalition. In 1992, she received the Mary Turner Lane Award from the Association for Women Faculty and Professionals. In 1992, she was elected to the Executive Committee of the Faculty Council and was reelected to a three-year term in 1993. She served as chair of the UNC Faculty Assembly (all 16 campuses) from 1997 to 1999. Gasaway was the first virtual scholar in residence at the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College, 2001-2002. She coauthored Librarians and Copyright: A Guide to Copyright in the 1990s, published in 1994, and has edited Growing Pains: Adapting Copyright for Education, Libraries, and Society, published in 1997, and Law Librarianship: Historical Perspectives, published in 1996.