Professional Biographical Information:

James M. Donovan joined the staff of the University of Georgia Alexander Campbell King Law Library in July 2003.  In his role as faculty services librarian, he serves as the primary liaison between the law library and the faculty.  Donovan manages the Current Awareness Program, which helps faculty stay informed of new developments in their fields, and he supervises the library’s Research Assistant Program, a resource faculty members can utilize for short-term projects.

As access services librarian, Donovan is also responsible for library functions originating in the circulation department.  In addition to scheduling the library’s hours of operation and assuring that the service areas are properly staffed, he oversees the reserve collection, interlibrary loan operations and document delivery services of the library.

Before coming to UGA, Donovan was a member of the library team at Tulane University Law School for 11 years.  Initially he worked in the government documents and microforms department and later served as its Head of Access Services.  He also taught as an adjunct professor and instructor at Tulane’s Law School and University College.  He currently teaches legal anthropology in the UGA Department of Anthropology.  He is the coauthor of Anthropology & Law (2003), and is the chief editor of Sexual Orientation and the Law: A Research Bibliography (2007).  Donovan’s work has appeared in a number of law reviews and peer-reviewed journals.

A holder of five degrees, Donovan received his first, a Bachelor of Arts, in 1982 from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  He earned both his Master in Library Information Science and a Master of Arts in philosophy from Louisiana State University.  At Tulane, he obtained a Ph.D. in anthropology and, in the spring of 2003, Donovan graduated from Loyola University with a Juris Doctor.