University of Georgia School of Law
Alexander Campbell King Law Library
Law Library 260A
Athens, GA 30602
United States
B.A., University of Southern California
J.D., University of Georgia
M.S.L.I.S., Catholic University of America
Legal Research
Advanced Legal Research
Legal Information Literacy
Savanna Nolan returned to the University of Georgia School of Law to work in the Alexander Campbell King Law Library as its instruction and faculty services librarian in July 2020. In this position, she promotes and coordinates research service for the faculty and also teaches legal research courses.
An active member of the American Association of Law Libraries and its Southeastern Chapter, Nolan has regularly presented as part of both organizations’ programming over the past three years. She also routinely presents at the annual Teaching the Teachers conference, which focuses on evidence-based instructional strategies and instructional design, taught by law librarians for law librarians. She presently serves as the treasurer of the Southeastern Association of Law Libraries and as the chair of the AALL Economic Status of Law Librarians Committee.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Constitution: In General, in Sexual Orientation, Gender Identities, and the Law: A Research Bibliography 2006-2016 (Dana Neacsu & David Holt eds., 2018)(with Andrew Lang).
Maryland, in Negligence Purpose, Elements, and Evidence: The Role of Foreseeability in the Law of Fifty States (Balloon Press, 2018).
West Virginia, in Negligence Purpose, Elements, and Evidence: The Role of Foreseeability in the Law of Fifty States (Balloon Press, 2018).
ARTICLES
Writing Winning Personal Statements for Scholarship Applications, AALL Spectrum, Mar./Apr. 2021, at 32.
Inside Baseball: Justice Blackmun and the Summer of ’72, The Green Bag Almanac & Reader 351 (Ross E. Davies & Cattleya Concepcion, eds., 2020).
PRESENTATIONS
Live Demo #2: Dungeons, Dragons, and Legal Research Andragogy (May 13, 2022) (Teaching the Teachers, Portland OR).
Managing Difficult Conversations in the Classroom (May 12, 2022) (Teaching the Teachers, Portland OR).
OER and You: Tools, Tips, Tricks, and Implementation Ideas (April 14, 2022) (SEAALL Annual Meeting 2022).
Beyond Scholarship: Innovative Institutional Repository Collections (July 2021) (On-demand session with live Q&A, AALL Annual Meeting 2021).
Breaking Through Public Speaking Fears (Even After Failure!) (June 16, 2021) (AALL webinar, invited).
Automation Using Metadata Filters & Leveraging Research Assistants (June 7, 2021) (workshop, AALL Law Repositories Caucus 2021 Sandbox Series 1).
The Heirloom Repository: Exploring the Digital Collection from UGA Law Library (Apr. 29, 2021) (panel, 2021 Southern Miss. Institutional Repository Conference).
Breaking Through Public Speaking Fears (Even After Failure!) (Mar. 19, 2021) (panel and workshop I proposed and coordinated, Southeastern Association of Law Libraries Annual Conference 2021).
The Administrative State: Finding the Regulations that Run Everything (Feb. 17, 2021) (moderator, AALL Webinar)