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Melanie Hodges Neufeld

Melanie Hodges Neufeld is the Director of Legal Resources at the Law Society of Saskatchewan. In addition to being responsible for the administration of the traditional library, Melanie is responsible for developing and recommending a strategic plan for the management of legal information within the Law Society and the province, and various access to justice initiatives.

Kim Hebig

Kim Hebig has been the Library Director of Wheatland Regional Library for over 10 years. Prior to her time in regional libraries, she worked in municipal libraries. Kim did her undergraduate in Sociology/Criminology before moving on to the University of Alberta to complete her Masters in Library and Information Studies.  

Brea Lowenberger

Brea Lowenberger is Saskatchewan's Access to Justice Coordinator; Director of CREATE Justice, an action-oriented access to justice research centre at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) that is working on transforming legal and justice services and the removal of systemic barriers to justice; and an adjunct law instructor at the U of S. Her reputation for collaboration and innovation in the justice sector includes 2016 and 2018 nominations as a “Young Influencer” and “Changemaker” by Canadian Lawyer.

Heather Holmes

Heather joined the Harris County Law Library staff in 2016 after working in an academic law library setting for more than 10 years.  Heather loves sharing information and helping library users locate the resources they need to address their legal concerns. She enjoys keeping up with developments in the access to justice movement, taking a special interest in the role that libraries play in narrowing the justice gap. Heather is happy to be part of the Harris County Law Library staff and grateful for the opportunities it gives her to serve the community and residents of Harris County.  

Joseph D. Lawson

Joe’s work is focused on removing barriers to legal information for everyone involved in the legal system. As Deputy Director of the Harris County Law Library, Joe led the initiative to create the Legal Tech Institute, which offers a collection of learning opportunities designed to help self-represented litigants and small firm attorneys learn the tech they need to access and use digital legal information.

Shivani Naicker

Shivani Naicker is a licensed attorney and will graduate with her Master of Science in Library Science degree in May 2019.  During her masters’ degree program, she worked as an intern at the University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law Library.  She is now the Electronic Services Librarian at the prestigious Dallas firm, Jackson Walker.  She obtained her law degree from Texas A&M (formerly Texas Wesleyan) School of Law in 2010 and practiced for six years at Godsey Martin in Dallas.  In her career as an attorney, Ms.

Aizul Ortega

Aizul G. Ortega received her Master's in Information Studies from the University of Texas School of Information in 2014 with a concentration on librarianship. She is the Technical Services Supervisor at the Travis County Law Library, where she has worked for three years. Her primary responsibilities include implementing current technology practices and procedures, overseeing the collection development processes for the Law Library, and maintaining the Law Library website.