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Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University
Legal Research Center
3320 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

General Information
Phone: 215-571-4772
Fax: 215-571-4768 
lawlib@drexel.edu

Reference Desk
Phone: 215-571-4771
lawref@drexel.edu

 

 

Staff 

bernstein  Mark Bernstein (email: mpb63@drexel.edu; 215.571.4770; Room L365) is the Director of the Legal Research Center and Professor of Law.  Before joining Drexel, Mark was the Director of the Omer Poos Law Library at Saint Louis University, where he was also an Assistant Professor of Law. Previously, he was Associate Director and Senior Lecturing Fellow at the Duke University Law Library.  At SLU, he chaired a Technology Advisory Committee, and at Duke, he co-chaired the Implementation Committee for an Integrated Library System. He is a past chairman of the Consortium of Southeastern Law Libraries and of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section.  Bernstein’s publications include articles on the evolution of the law library, the impact of law specialization on library services and qualitative methods for evaluating the value of a library.
 balija Sunita Balija  (email: svb24@drexel.edu; 215.571.4724; Room L367) is the Access Services, Document Delivery and Reserves Assistant for the Legal Research Center.  She is a graduate of Rutgers University and is currently pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science from Drexel's College of Information Science and Technology.
 berthrong Keith Berthrong (email: kab66@drexel.edu; 215.571.4765; Room L363) is the Electronic Services Librarian for the Legal Research Center.  He is a 2006 graduate of Drexel’s Library and Information Science Program, and has previously worked as the Electronic Resources Assistant at Hagerty Library, in addition to being a cataloger at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.
 cannan John Cannan (e-mail: jc3238@drexel.edu; 215.571.4777; Room L310) is a Research and Instructional Services Librarian. He received his law degree from the University of Maryland, School of Law and practiced historic preservation and land use law in Baltimore.  After obtaining his MLS from the University of Maryland, College of Library and Information Science, he was assistant law librarian at the Montgomery County (MD) Circuit Court Law Library and then a legal information analyst with the Law Library of Congress.  He is a frequent writer on legal and legal research topics and  author of “Are Public Law Librarians Immune from Suit? Muddying the Already Murky Waters of Law Librarian Liability,” which was published in the Law Library Journal.  His current research interests are legal information services for self represented litigants, legislative history, Web 2.0 and judicial rules.
 egler Peter J. Egler (e-mail: pje26@drexel.edu, 215.571.4776; Room L311) is the Legal Research Center's Head of Research & Instructional Services. Peter has a J.D. from the Catholic University of America, and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania bar.
 garon Patrick Garon (email: pjg27@drexel.edu; 215.571.4733; Room L313) is the Access Services Evening Supervisor.  A graduate of Boston College, Patrick spent six years in a similar position at the LSU Health Sciences Center Library in New Orleans.  He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Library & Information Science at Drexel’s College of Information Science and Technology.
 hsinwilson Jessica Hsin-Wilson  (email: jh585@drexel.edu; 215.571.4796; Room L361) is the Acquisitions Technician for the Legal Research Center.  She is a New York University graduate and is currently pursuing her second master's degree in Library and Information Science at Drexel University.  She has over 15 years of experience working at the NYU Bobst Library Acquisitions Department.
huffnagle Stephanie Huffnagle (email: sah347@drexel.edu; 215.571.4778; Room L366) is a Research and Instructional Services Librarian for the Legal Research Center. Stephanie received a law degree from Albany Law School and a Master in Library Science degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
 karam Nicole Karam  (email: nrk28@drexel.edu; 215.571.4760; Room L361) is the Serials & Acquisitions Librarian for the Legal Research Center. She received her Masters in Library and Information Science from the iSchool at Drexel University in 2009. Her previous library experience includes working as the Technical Services Assistant at the Legal Research Center, and working as the Print Materials Assistant at Hagerty Library. 
Beth Huxta Beth Huxta (email: eh382@drexel.edu; 215.571.4820; Room L313) is the Access Services Day Supervisor for the Legal Research Center. Beth holds a B.A. in English from Temple University and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Library & Information Science at Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology.
  Francis Lotuaco  (email: fal28@drexel.edu; 215.571.4727; Room L367) is the Accounts Payable/Administrative Assistant  for the Legal Research Center.
 mazuchowski Joan Mazuchowski (email: jgm26@drexel.edu; 215.571.4781; Room L361) is the Head of Collection Services for the Legal Research Center.  She is a 2001 graduate of Drexel University’s College of Information and Science Technology.  Her most recent law library experience was seven years of serving as the Collection Development Librarian at Jenkins Law Library.

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Lindsay Steussy (email: lhs27@drexel.edu; 215.571.4774; Room L364) is a Research and Instructional Services Librarian. She received her law degree from Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she was a law library fellow and worked in the reference department. Before law school, she received a Master of Library Science degree from Indiana University-Bloomington (as well as a Master’s degree in Medieval History), after which she worked at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the Technical Services department.
 thorpe Steven Thorpe (email: steven.r.thorpe@drexel.edu; 215.571.4726; Room L312) is the inaugural Head of Access Services/Research and Instructional Services Librarian at the Earle Mack School of Law Legal Research Center. His most recent law library experience was ten years of serving as Head of Public Services at the University of Tennessee Joel A. Katz Law Library.