Susan M. Boland

Susan Boland is a Senior Librarian and the Associate Director for the University of Cincinnati Robert. S. Marx Law Library. She teaches legal research and offers reference and research support services to all law library users. Prior to joining the law library faculty, she was the Head of Information Services for the Ruth Lilly Law Library at the Robert H. McKinney School of Law and the Research & Instructional Services librarian at Northern Illinois University College of Law. She has also held positions at a public library and community college library and served as a judicial clerk for the Iowa District Court for the Fifth Judicial District. She is a member of various professional associations both regionally and nationally, and was Chair of the Computing Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries and President of the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries. She has presented at regional and national conferences, as well as at continuing legal education programs. Her publications include annotated bibliographies on the death penalty and election law, as well as articles on legal research, technology, and teaching.

BA, Monmouth College
MS University of Illinois
JD Northern Illinois University

Advanced Legal Research: Methods and Applications (LITG-7049)
Advanced Legal Research: Civil Litigation (LITG-7096)
Advanced Legal Research: Ohio Legal Research (LITG-7097)
Computer & Internet Law (PROP-7002)

• ·Cybersecurity Issues and Training, in Law Librarianship Practice: Challenges and Opportunities in Law Firm, Government, and Academic Law Libraries (Ellyssa Kroski ed. 2025).
• Interactive Legal Research & Writing Lessons: 1L Legal Research – Introductory Basics (West Academic 2022) (Lessons 2 & 3).
• UPDATE: Researching International Human Rights, GlobaLex (Hauser Global Law School Program, NYU School of Law Jan./Feb. 2021) (co-author James Hart).
• Book Review (reviewing Laura Solomon, Doing Social Media So It Matters: A Librarian’s Guide), AALL Spectrum Blog (Feb. 2, 2011).
• Brave New World? Electronic Voting Machines and Internet Voting: An Annotated Bibliography, 27 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 313 (2007) (with Therese Clarke Arado).
• Walking the Edge of Death: An Annotated Bibliography on Juveniles, the Mentally Ill, the Mentally Retarded and the Death Penalty, 21 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 131 (2001).
• Book Review (reviewing CCH Guide to Anti-Money Laundering and Bank Secrecy: Compliance and the USA Patriot Act), 22 Legal Info. Alert, Jan. 2003, at 11.
• Book Review (reviewing U.S. Government on the Web), 19 Legal Info. Alert, Jan. 2000, at 9.