Title
Jane L. Hammond
Streaming Media
Interviewee
Jane L. Hammond
Interviewer
Peter W. Martin
Resource Type
Video Interview
Date of Recording
8-3-2012
Duration
1:04:35
Description
From the video archives of the Cornell Law School Heritage Project. The Interviewer is Peter W. Martin and the videographer is Michael D'Estries. This video covers the career of Jane L. Hammond as law librarian at Villanova and Cornell and her service with key national professional bodies.
Jane Hammond is Professor Emerita at Cornell Law. With extensive experience in the libraries of Harvard Law School, Drexel University, and Villanova University School of Law, Professor Hammond served as the Edward Cornell Law Librarian for seventeen years until her retirement in 1993.
Her education includes a B.A. from University of Dubuque, an M.L.S. from Columbia University School of Library Science, and a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law.
During her tenure at Cornell Law, Professor Hammond fundamentally changed and modernized library operations, and from 1985-1987 worked as Acting Director of the Cornell University Libraries Computerized Library Information Project. Among her many contributions to librarianship was a trip to Liberia in 1989 to organize their National Law Library.
Keywords
Cornell Law School, Law professors, Cornell Law Library, Law librarians
Disciplines
Legal Education | Library and Information Science
Recommended Citation
Hammond, Jane L. and Martin, Peter W., "Jane L. Hammond" (2012). Cornell University Law School Heritage Project. Video 11.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/lawschool_heritage/11
Comments
The initial phase of the project was sponsored by a generous grant from the law firm of Sutherland Asbill and Brennan LLP.