University of Wisconsin at Madison, B.A., M.A.
University of Minnesota, J.D.
Professor Suzanne Thorpe is recognized for her expertise in the areas of legal research and library administration. She is the Associate Director for Faculty, Research and Instructional Services, and oversees all public and faculty services offered by the University of Minnesota Law Library. She provides legal research instruction and is also responsible for collecting Scandinavian legal materials for the Law Library. Professor Thorpe was appointed the inaugural Caroline Brede Scholar for 1999-2001.
Professor Thorpe earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She received her J.D. degree from the University of Minnesota. Professor Thorpe was a program assistant for the American-Scandinavian Foundation in New York from 1971 to 1972 and was a library assistant in the Criminal Justice Reference and Information Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School from 1973 to 1974. She worked at Hamline University Law Library for nine years before becoming the Public Services Librarian for Hennepin County Law Library in Minneapolis. Professor Thorpe joined the University of Minnesota Law School library faculty as a reference librarian in 1987. She has been President of the Minnesota Association of Law Libraries and is active in the American Association of Law Libraries.
Researching Labor Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment, 91 L. Library J. 367 (1999) (with Laura J. Cooper). Revised as appendix in Laura J. Cooper, Dennis R. Nolan & Richard A. Bales, ADR in the Workplace (2000 and 2005).
Web Sites for Specialized Areas of Law, in Advanced Legal Research on the Internet (1997).
A Guide to International Legal Bibliography, in Contemporary Practice of Public International Law (1997).
A Guide to Law and News on the Net, in Using the Internet for Legal Research (1996).
Where and How to Find Federal and State Statutes, Constitutions, and Related Materials, in Legal Research for Legal Assistants (1995).
International Organizations: Selected Reference Tools, in Introduction to International Organizations (1995).
Eureka for Law Reference, October 1994 RLIN Focus, at 2.
The Swedish Collection at the University of Minnesota Law Library, February, 1989 FCIL Newsl., at 1.
A Comparison of OCLC, WLN, and RLIN for Public Services: A 1985 Update, Legal Reference Services Q. 141. (1986) (with Donna Hirst and Ruth Funabinki).
Book Reviews
20 L. Library J. (2000) (reviewing America's Greatest Places to Work with a Law Degree).
February 1996 Legal Information Alert, at 15 (reviewing Corporate Governance and Corporate Control).
June 1995 Legal Information Alert, at 14 (reviewing Dispute Resolution Directory (1995)).
June 1995 Legal Information Alert, at 13 (reviewing Librarian's Guide to Public Records (1995)).
10 Const. Comm. 277 (February 1993) (reviewing The Language of the Constitution: A Sourcebook and Guide to the Ideas, Terms, and Vocabulary Used by the Framers of the United States Constitution (1993)).
20 Int'l. J. Legal Info. 187 (1992) (reviewing Law and Integration: Sweden and the European Community (1992)).
Other
Eureka for Law Reference, Research Libraries Group, Inc., Mountain View, CA 1994 (tutorial available on the Internet).
