George H. Pike
Director, Barco
Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law
University of
Phone: (412)
648-1322; Fax: (412) 648-1352; E-mail: pike@law.pitt.edu
PROFESSIONAL Assistant
Professor of Law and Director of the Law Library,
EXPERIENCE:
Responsible for law library
operations, including development and implementation of library policies and services,
long and short term planning, budget preparation and administration, personnel
management, and library development. Active in information technology policy and planning with other
members of the
$ Teaching
package includes Information Law & Policy seminar, Foundations of Legal
Research, Internet Research, and Specialized Legal Research.
$ Coordinator
for 2002 Law at Sea summer program. Teaching package included Cultures of Law
& Justice and Comparative Civil Liberties, plus administrative
responsibilities prior to and during the voyage.
$ Additional
teaching activities include Legal Methods instructor in 1998 and 2000 American
Bar Association Committee on Legal Education Opportunities (CLEO) Summer
Institutes, Law Resources and Services course at the School of Information
Science (SIS), CLE programs on traditional and Internet legal research and
Internet ethics, and several workshops on legal issues for librarians.
Deputy Director of the Law Library,
(Acting Director: 1991-92),
Northwestern
Responsible for day-to-day
operations, including budget administration, implementation of library policy,
participation in long and short-term planning, personnel administration and
management of CALR and CALI programs.
$ Reorganized
Reference and Attorney Services departments, including hiring new staff,
strengthening departmental services, and creating new and enhanced programs,
publications and services.
$ Developed and
taught first-time Advanced Legal Research course.
$ Planned and
oversaw library remodeling efforts including projects to upgrades the library=s interior lighting, install compact storage
and to improve computing and group study space.
Assistant Law Librarian/Reference and
Computer Services,
Northwestern
Provided Reference
Service to students, faculty, staff and library patrons.
Administered operations of academic and administrative
computing services.
Acting Associate Law Librarian for
Public Services,
One year
appointment as Associate Law Librarian, for Reference and Circulation
departments. Instructor in the first
year Legal Research course.
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Staff Attorney, Idaho Legal Aid
Services, Inc.,
Practicing attorney representing
low-income clients before state courts and administrative agencies in housing,
consumer, wills, employment and entitlement law.
RELATED Legal
Research and Library Management Consultant: 1998-2002
EXPERIENCE: Consultant
to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections on legal research, law, and
library management skills training for
correctional institution librarians.
Free-lance Instructor: 1999-2002
Continuing legal
education instructor for National Business Institute on research and Internet
issues.
Free-lance Research and Consulting:
1989, 1991-1992
Created a book and vendor catalog
library for a
Student Assistant,
Reference and Circulation, LEXIS and
WESTLAW, filing, shelving
EDUCATION: University
of
Master of Librarianship, Certificate
in Law Librarianship - August 1988
Juris Doctor - May 1985
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology, Social
Services - May 1982
PROFESSIONAL Member,
Program Committee, Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section
ACTIVITIES: American Association of Law Libraries
(AALL) - 2000-2001
President,
Association of Law Libraries -
1997-2000
Chair, Roundtable Committee, Academic
Law Libraries Special Interest Section,
American Association of Law Libraries
(AALL) - 1997-1998
Member, University of Pittsburgh
Provost=s Executive Committee on Academic
Computing (ECAC) - 1996-1999
Member, Program Committee, Northeast >96 AALL Regional Meeting - 1995-1996
Law School Committee appointments
include: Academic Standards Committee (Chair,
1999-2000).
Honor Board, (98-99), CLE Committee (96-98); Clinic Committee (95-96); Steering
Committee (95-96); Ex-officio appointments to Budget Committee and Library and
Technology Committee
Chair, Internet Room Sub-Committee,
Member, Local Arrangements Committee,
AALL Annual Meeting,
Member, WestPac
Executive Board - 1989-1991
Editor, WestPac
News Newsletter - 1988-1991
Wrote questions for Idaho Bar Exam -
1986-1987
George H. Pike
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PUBLICATIONS Speaker, Copyright and
E-Resources, Online Northwest 2003,
and 28, 2003
PRESENTATIONS: Author, The
Delicate Dance of Database Licenses, Copyright and Fair Use,
Cooperation, 21(5) Computers in Libraries (May
2002)
Columnist for Information
Today, bi-monthly articles on legal issues.
Published articles
include: Congress, IP and the Internet: A
busy year ahead (May 2001); A book is a book is e-book: The clash of
copyright and contract in the digital age (July/August 2001), Surviving
Tasini (October 2001); Watch what you
write: World wide libel and the World Wide Web (December 2001); The
Diminishing Fair Use Doctrine (February 2002); How long is a Alimited time@?: U.S. Supreme Court accepts review
of Copyright Term Extension Act (Published
online at www.infotoday.com, February 25, 2002); What is Right About a Copyleft (April 2002); To Link or Not to Link
(June 2002); History Revisited: The USA PATRIOT Act (December 2002.)
Speaker, Law & Disorder:
Making Sense of CIPA and How Copyright Policy Changes
Everything, National Online 2002,
Author, Private Libraries and
Public Patrons: The Application of Public
Forum Doctrine
to Non-Public Libraries. Submitted for publication spring
2003
Author, The
Cooperation, 20(3) Legal Reference Services
Quarterly 27 (2001)
Speaker, Implementing the Children=s Internet Protection Act, Southwest
Speaker, Developing Library
policies: The Legal View,
Speaker, Internet Resources for
the Insurance Claims Adjustors,
Association of Mutual Insurance
Companies Update Seminar,
Speaker, Keeping Legal, Legal
Issues Confronting Librarians,
Association Annual Conference,
Speaker, New Library Directors= Workshop: Surviving the Site
Evaluation Visit,
AALS
Annual Meeting -
Speaker, Legal Aspects of
Cyberspace: Potential Potholes on the Legal Superhighway,
CLE Luncheon,
Speaker, Business Resources on the
Internet Northeast >96 AALL
Regional Meeting,
Co-author (with Robert Sullivan) and
Developer, Business Resources on the Internet, A
WWW-based
research pathfinder.
URL: http://www.law.pitt.edu/pike/ne96.htm
Speaker and Coordinator, Surfin= the Legal Superhighway: Legal
Resources on the Internet,
Speaker and Coordinator, Surfin= the Legal Superhighway: Using the
Internet in the Practice of
Law, University of
PROFESSIONAL American Association of Law Libraries
MEMBERSHIPS: American Library Association
Idaho State Bar Association
American Bar Association