Professional Biographical Information:

Elizabeth Geesey Holmes, cataloging services librarian for the University of Georgia School of Law Alexander Campbell King Law Library, joined the UGA law staff in January of 2001. At the library, she effectively leads and manages the work of the catalog department.

Holmes does original cataloging work for monographs and serials plus maintains and improves the quality of GAVEL, the library’s online catalog. She plans, coordinates and supervises the work of the entire cataloging system. In addition, she hires and trains the department staff. She also chairs the acquisitions/cataloging team and the library systems team.

Prior to joining UGA, Holmes served as the head of copy cataloging and database management for the Harvard University Law School Library. Holmes earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Lafayette College, a Master of Arts from the College of William and Mary and a Master of Science in Library and Information Studies from the University of Rhode Island. Before coming to UGA, she worked for the Roger Williams School of Law Library, Cassidy Cataloging Services and the Rhode Island State Library.

She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries (national and southeastern chapters). She was a featured speaker at the AALL 2001 and 2002 Annual Meetings and has served on its public relations committee. In April 2003, Holmes spoke on UGA law library's team management system at the Southeastern AALL meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, and she became the co-editor of the classification column in Technical Services Law Librarian. For the past three years she has been a speaker for the Georgia CLE program on Internet Legal Research.