Associate Librarian for Access and Emerging Technologies, Administrative Faculty

(434) 592-5350

Education

  • M.L.I.S., University of North Texas, School of Library and Informational Sciences
  • LL.M., Southern Methodist University School of Law
  • LL.M., University of Lagos; Lagos, Nigeria
  • B.L., Nigerian Law School
  • LL.B., University of Lagos; Lagos, Nigeria

Experience

  • Associate Librarian for Access and Emerging Technologies and Administrative Faculty
  • provided reference services and research assistance at Thurgood Marshall School of Law Library at Texas Southern University
    • Authored research guides on Federal Legislative History, Regulatory History, Internet Legal Fact-finding, Congressional Records, and Self Representation in the Court or Before Administrative Tribunals
    • Instituted domain name-based monitoring of visits or usage statistics of online resources through GPO PURL Referral statistics program
    • Cataloged and integrated New Electronic Titles (NET) as well as managed the law library’s special collection
    • Collected and maintained statistical information to track productivity, usage of Federal Depository services, and for ABA accreditation purposes
    • Managed the reorganization of the Special Collection Unit and created, organized, and classified the microfiche collection based on the Library of Congress classification scheme
  • Served Fondren Library at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, first as Library Specialist III in the Center for Information Processing and then as Library Specialist IV in the Government Documents Department
  • Taught Oil and Gas Law and Corporate Taxation at Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria
  • Recipient of the SMU Colophon Library School Scholarship Award, the University of North Texas School of Library and Information Science Scholarship, and has been invited to join the Beta Phi Mu honor society
  • Member of the American Association of Law Libraries, the Houston Area Association of Law Libraries, and the Houston Area Network of Documents Information

Biography

This master of research and reference comes to Liberty from Nigeria and the Lone Star State where he provided reference services and research assistance at Thurgood Marshall School of Law Library at Texas Southern University. He is proficient in Ex Libris Voyager, Westlaw, LexisNexis, Heinonline, and Innovative Interfaces Millennium.

Babatunde is passionate about academia and delivering legal research instruction. In the early to late 1990s he taught Oil and Gas Law and Corporate Taxation at Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria.