Therese A. Clarke Arado

Office: Swen Parson 290B

Email: tclarke@niu.edu

Phone: 815-753-9497

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About

Professor Arado joined the law library faculty in 2000. She oversees the day-to-day management of the law library, handles the budget and collection, and provides legal reference assistance to faculty, students and other library users. Additionally, she teaches a required first-year legal research course as well as two upper level advanced research courses. She supports law faculty and students in their use of instructional technology and works to increase digital access to library resources for students and faculty. She has worked as a reference librarian in both law school and law firm settings. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries, the Chicago Association of Law Libraries, and the American Association of Law Schools. She has held leadership positions in MAALL and CALL, and serves on several committees in AALL, MAALL, CALL, and AALS. She has presented and prepared materials for the American Association of Law Libraries and Mid-America Association of Law Libraries Annual Meetings. Prof. Arado also participates on many committees at the College of Law and the university at large. She is admitted (inactive) to the Illinois Bar.

Education

• B.B.A., Loyola University of Chicago
• M.L.S., Dominican University
• J.D., The John Marshall Law School, Chicago

Articles

• Medical Marijuana: An Overview of Select Resources, 35 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 461 (2015) (with Annie Mentkowski).
• Safe Haven, Adoption and Birth Record Laws: Where are the Daddies?, 36 Cap. U. L. Rev. 207 (2007) (with Jeffrey A. Parness). Also available in SSRN
• O Brave New World? Electronic Voting Machines and Internet Voting: An Annotated Bibliography, 27 N Ill L. Rev. 313 (2007) (with Susan M. Boland).
• Why Won't Someone Help Me?: The Unspeakable Epidemic of Domestic Violence: an Annotated Bibliography, 23 N Ill L. Rev. 529 (2003).

Short Articles/Columns

• TechBuzz: Technologies Gone By...Not Really, CALL Bull., Fall 2016, at 40.
• My MAALL Conference Experience, MAALL Markings, Issue 1, 2012, at 6.
• TechBuzz: E-Readers, CALL Bull., Spring 2012, at 19.
• TechBuzz: Where Are They Now: A Look Back at Some of the Topics Covered Through the Years in TechBuzz, CALL Bull., Fall 2011, at 30.
• TechBuzz: Connecting with Current Awareness Tools, CALL Bull., Winter 2011, at 28.
• TechBuzz: E-books and the Library Collection: Friend or Foe or Both?, CALL Bull. 34 (Winter 2010).
• TechBuzz: Some Thoughts and Suggestions on Organizing Technology, CALL Bull. 34 (Fall 2009).
• TechBuzz: Web 2.0 Challenge and Business Connections to Social Media, CALL Bull. 34 28 (Winter 2009).
• TechBuzz: Presentation Software, Computers and Projectors Oh My!, CALL Bull. 33 (Spring 2008).
• TechBuzz: Free Wiki, CALL Bull. 14 (Fall 2007).
• Hein Online: It's Not Your Father's Hein-Online!, CALL Bull. 34 (Spring 2007).
• Legal Research Rhyme in Fourteenth National Legal Research Teach-In Training Resource Kit 3 (Jennifer S. Murray ed. 2006).
• Loislaw and Versuslaw: Database Alternatives to Consider, CALL Bull. 20 (Spring 2006).
• CS SIS Web page Resource Guide, Copyright and Licensing Digital Materials – A Resource Guide (2005).
• Law Librarians Participate in Statewide Illinois CLICKS! Program, CALL Bull. 18 (Winter 2004).
• Legal Research in the 21st Century: How the Web Has Changed How We Find the Law, N. Law. (Winter 2003).
• They All Grow Up So Quickly: Sending Our Students Into The Real World, RIPS L. Libr. (Spring 2002).