Vicente E. Garces

Professor of Legal Research Instruction

Vicente E. Garces

355L Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-624-2597

garce003@umn.edu

University of California at Los Angeles, B.A.
University of San Francisco, J.D.
University of California at Berkeley, M.L.I.S.

Professor Vicente E. Garces specializes in the area of legal research and bibliography. He teaches and coordinates the library's legal research instruction program for first-year students. Professor Garces selects materials for the library's collection in most areas of state and federal law and in related interdisciplinary subject areas. He also provides reference service to the library's patrons and manages the library's web site.

Professor Garces received his B.A. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master's degree in library and information science from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his J.D. degree at the University of San Francisco School of Law. Professor Garces served as Senior Reference Librarian at the University of Oregon Law Library prior to joining the University of Minnesota Law School library faculty in 1996. Professor Garces is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and has served on several AALL committees. He is past president of the Minnesota Association of Law Libraries (MALL) and is a member of the MALL Executive Board.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Celebrating Diversity: A Legacy of Minority Leadership in the American Association of Law Libraries (Hein, 2006) (With Carol Avery Nicholson and Ruth Johnson Hill).

Survey on Collection Development Policies and Selection Practices (Hein, 2006).

Articles and Book Chapters

"Minnesota Practice Materials: A Selective Annotated Bibliography." in State Practice Materials: Annotated Bibliographies, edited by Frank G. Houdek (AALL Publication Series No. 63, Buffalo, N.Y.: W.S. Hein, 2002).

The Recruitment of Minority Librarians: A Bibliography of the Literature, 1990-1998, 90 L. Lib. J. 603 (1998).

Book Reviews

16 Legal Info. Alert 11 (Sept. 1997) (reviewing Public Records Online: The National Guide to Private and Government Online Sources of Public Records (Carl R. Ernst & Michael Sankey, eds. 1997).

14 Legal Information Alert 8 at 14 (Sept. 1995) (reviewing Legislative Reference Services and Sources by Kathleen Low).