CARLA
DOWNER PRITCHETT
8134 Sycamore Pl.
New Orleans, LA 70118
504-861-0066
pritchett9@cox.net
EDUCATION
PRAXIS Teacher Exams, Secondary English - completed
Post-Baccalaureate Classes for Teacher Certification in English,
Secondary and School Library K-12 Sept. 2002 - July
2003 - all classes completed (student teaching requirements in progress)
University of New Orleans
J.D. May 1989
Tulane University Law School, New Orleans
-Editor-In-Chief Tulane Environmental Law
Journal 1988/1989
M.L.S. May 1980
Simmons College, Boston (graduated with honors)
B.A. March 1979 - English
University of Florida, Gainesville
FULL-TIME PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2007 - Present
Tulane University Law School Library - New Orleans
-Reference/Documents Librarian
August 2003 - August 2007
Archbishop Shaw High School - Marrero
-School Librarian/Library-Media Teacher
-Chess Club Moderator/Teacher/Tournament Coordinator
(I missed part of the 2005-2006 Katrina year)
August 1996 - July 2001
Loyola University Law Library - New Orleans
-Reference/Documents Librarian/Associate
Professor
January 1993 - July 1996
Loyola University Law Library - New Orleans
-Reference/Documents Librarian/Assistant
Professor
December 1989 - January 1993
Loyola University Law Library - New Orleans
-Reference Librarian/Assistant Professor
July 1987 - August 1987
Tulane University Law School Library - New Orleans
-Temporary Documents/Microform/Reference
Librarian
August 1985 - July 1986
Loyola University Law Library - New Orleans
-Catalog Librarian/Assistant Professor
September 1983 - November 1984
Seki, Jarvis & Lynch - Chicago
-Law Firm Librarian/Legal Researcher
August 1981 - September 1983
American Bar Foundation Library - Chicago
-Reference/Catalog Librarian
July 1980 - August 1981
University of Chicago Law School Library
-Reference/Documents Librarian
PART-TIME PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2001 - March 2003
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School - New Orleans
-Substitute Librarian - Retrospective conversion and
cataloging used Follet Alliance Plus software, storytelling,
bibliographic instruction.
September 1990 - December 1990
Tulane University Law School Library - New Orleans
-Evening and Weekend Reference Librarian
August 1987 - July 1989
Tulane University Law School Library - New Orleans
-Reference Librarian
January 1985 - June 1985
University of Michigan Law School Library
-Special Projects Librarian
August 1981 - November 1984
Northwestern University Law Library - Chicago
-Weekend Reference Librarian
June 1983 - August 1983
University of Chicago Library School
-Teaching Assistant for Legal Research class
TEACHING
Archbishop Shaw High School - Library-Media Teacher,
taught Freshman library orientation classes and a full class load of 1
Semester Senior Seminars on traditional and Internet research
skills, August 2003 - August 2007. (I missed part of the
2005-2006 Katrina year)
Library Teaching Practicum (UNO) , Archbishop Rummel
High School, January-March 2003.
"Advanced Legal Research," Loyola Law School Skills
Course, every Spring, 1996- 2001.
"Legislative History" and "Administrative and
Legislative Library Resources," for the Loyola/Tulane Legislative
Advocacy and Administrative Advocacy classes, 1992-2001.
"Using the Internet for Legal Research," " Loyola
Law School Skills Course, multiple sections every semester, 1999 - 2001.
"Secondary Sources" and "Case Law Research,"
lectures for the Loyola Law School Legal Research and Writing Class,
Fall 1995-1999.
"Legal Bibliography" (LIS 7908 3 hours credit),
Louisiana State University Graduate Library and Information Science
Course. Spring 1998.
SERVICE AND VOLUNTEER WORK
Boy Scout Committee Member and Merit Badge
Counselor, Troop 48 St. Andrew’s Episcopal -Church June 20003 present
Teaching life and leadership
skills to young boys becoming young men.
First Presbyterian Church, Gainesville, FL (part of
the 2005-2006 Katrina evacuation year)
Automating the church library.
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Library August 2001 -
May 2002
Retrospective conversion,
cataloging, storytelling, bibliographic instruction, collection
development, book fair and other special projects.
Cub Scout Leader and Committee Chair, Pack 48 St.
Andrew’s Episcopal Church June 2000-03
Provide programming, training and
entertainment for 45 boys and their families.
Chess Club St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. 1999 - 2005
Teach and supervise 27 children
once a week, for two hours after school.
Chess Camp St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. Summer 1999
Teach and supervise 40 children
for a one week all day camp.
PRESENTATIONS
"Legislative History Sources for the United States
and Louisiana" and "Administrative and Legislative Information
Sources," for the International Legislative Drafting Institute, The
Public Law Center (Tulane and Loyola Universities), each Summer
1995-1999.
"Law Reporters in Early Louisiana," presented at the
Louisiana Historical Association Annual Meeting, March 18, 1994.
Co-Coordinator and Moderator, "Don't Throw It All
Away: Recycling in Law Libraries - Bridge to the Community Through
Environmental Activism," American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)
Annual Meeting, July 23, 1991.
"Hunting for Louisiana Legislative History: Library
Resources and Methods," presented at the New Orleans Association of Law
Librarians Eighth Annual Meeting, Louisiana Legislative History: Myth
or Reality?, April 12, 1991.
"Louisiana and Federal Legislative Histories"
presented to three groups of law clerks and first year associates at
McGlinchey, Stafford, Cellini and Lang, Summer 1990.
Co-Moderator, New Orleans Association of Law
Librarians (NOALL), Seventh Annual Meeting, A Primer On Environmental
Law, March 23, 1990.
PUBLICATIONS
"Case Law Reporters in Early Louisiana," A Law
Unto Itself?: Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History. Ed. by
Warren M. Billings and Mark F. Fernandez, Louisiana State University
Press, 2000.
"Electronic Bulletin Boards," 9(2) New Orleans Law
Librarian 8 (1995), updated and republished 10(1) New Orleans Law
Librarian 3 (1997).
Book review. George S. Grossman, Legal
Research: Historical Foundations of the Electronic Age. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1994. xx, 352 pp., 39 American Journal of
Legal History 389 (July 1995).
"Profile," 7(1) New Orleans Law Librarian 11 (1993).
"Ten Steps to an Environmentally Correct Future," 16
Southeastern Law Librarian 1 (1991).
"Reading on the Job," (regular column February 1996
to May 1999), New Orleans Law Librarian.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Catholic Library Association
Member September 2003 - August 2007
Louisiana Advisory Council for State Documents Depository
Member July 1997 to June 2001
Louisiana Library Association (LLA)
Government Documents Round Table (GODORT)
Mission Statement Committee 1999.
American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)
Government Relations Committee, July 1993 - July 1995
Government Documents Special Interest Section
Nominating Committee, 1994-95.
Chair, Local Information/Hospitality Committee, 1991
Annual Meeting
New Orleans Association of Law Librarians (NOALL)
New Orleans Law Librarian Newsletter Editor, Nov.
1995 - 1999
Co-Coordinator of NOALL listserv co-owned with
Washburn University, 1995 - 2001
Scholarship Committee, 1993
Chair, NOALL Professional Development and Special
Projects Committee, 1990-1991
Co-Coordinator for the NOALL Annual Meeting, March
23, 1990
Member:
American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)
New Orleans Association of Law Librarians (NOALL)
Southeastern Chapter, American Association of Law Libraries (SEALL)
Former Member:
Catholic Library Association of New Orleans (CLA)
Louisiana Library Association (LLA)
American Library Association (ALA)
Association of College and Research Libraries, Louisiana Chapter
(ACRL/LA)
Co-Coordinator Povertylaw-L (Loyola School of Law / Washburn Law School
jointly owned electronic bulletin board) October 1994-July 2001
Tulane Environmental Law Journal Advisory Board
References provided on request