Penny Hazelton

Professor Emeritus of Law

Contact

Email: pennyh@u.washington.edu

Education

B.A. 1969, Linfield College J.D. 1975, Lewis & Clark College M.L.L. 1976, University of Washington

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Expertise

Law Library Administration

Selected Publications

Specialized Legal Research (Penny A. Hazelton ed., rev. ed., Gallagher Law Library 2014, Supp. 2017).
Penny A. Hazelton, Law Students and the New Law Library: An Old Paradigm, in Legal Education in the Digital Age 158-82 (Edward Rubin ed., Cambridge University Press 2012).
Penny A. Hazelton, Practical Tips for Academic Employers: How to Make a Great Impression and Hire the Best Librarian for the Job, AALL Spectrum, Nov. 2011, at 12-13.
Penny A. Hazelton, The Education and Training of Law Librarians, in The IALL International Handbook of Legal Information Management 43-64 (Richard A. Danner & Jules Winterton eds., Ashgate 2011).

See the full list under the Publications tab below.

Publications
Presentations

Peer Reviewed Journals & Law Reviews

"Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide": The Reality of Being a Law Library Director in Times of Great Opportunity and Significant Challenges, 107 Law Libr. J. 79-112 (2015) (Penny A. Hazelton is among the contributors)
Penny A. Hazelton, Searching for the Borders, 20 Legal Writing J. 17-20 (2015).
Ruth Bird, Penny A. Hazelton & Kyle Brown, CTC and International Research and Information Systems, 3 Cape Town Convention J. 69-80 (2015).
Taylor Fitchett, James Hambleton, Penny Hazelton, Anne Klinefelter & Judith Wright, Law Library Budgets in Hard Times, 103 Law Libr. J. 91-111 (2011).
Barbara A. Bintliff, Laura N. Gasaway, Penny A. Hazelton, Frank G. Houdek, Janis L. Johnston, Martha Dragich Pearson, Charles Ten Brink & Michelle Wu, Rebuilding the Profession: Recommendations for Librarians Interested in Becoming Academic Law Library Directors, 99 Law Libr. J. 101-32 (2007).
Penny A. Hazelton, Memorial: Viola Bird (1905-2007), 99 Law Libr. J. 933-34 (2007).
Penny A. Hazelton, Remembrances of J. Myron Jacobstein, 97 Law Libr. J. 645 (2005).
Penny A. Hazelton, I Am Not Bored--and Here's Why, 93 Law Libr. J. 565-67 (2001).
Penny A. Hazelton, Why Don't We Teach Secondary Materials First?, 8 Persp.: Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 8-10 (1999), reprinted in Best of Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, Volumes 1-9 (1992-2001), at 58-60 (West Group 2001).
Penny A. Hazelton, How Much of Your Print Collection Is Really on Westlaw or Lexis-Nexis?, Legal Reference Services Q., no. 1, 1999 at 3-22.
Penny Hazelton, What Law Librarians Collect, 91 Law Libr. J. 601 (1999).
Penny A. Hazelton, Sometimes You Need a Good Shove, 91 Law Libr. J. 216-18 (1999).
Penny A. Hazelton et al., Develop the Habit: Note-Taking in Legal Research, 4 Persp.: Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 48-52 (1996), reprinted in Best of Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, Volumes 1-9 (1992-2001), at 66-70 (West Group 2001).
Penny A. Hazelton, Advanced Legal Research Courses: An Update, 1 Persp.: Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 52-53 (1993).
Penny Hazelton, Marian Gould Gallagher: Who Was She Anyway?, 65 Wash. L. Rev. 739-41 (1990).
Penny A. Hazelton, Memorials, Marian Gould Gallagher and Melissa Sue Landers, 82 Law Libr. J. 399-401 (1990).
Penny A. Hazelton, Library School and Legal Bibliographies, Legal Reference Services Q., nos. 1-2, 1989 at 79-88.
Penny A. Hazelton, Circuit Justice Assignments: 1802-1984, Legal Reference Services Q., no. 4, 1984-85 at 85-94.
Penny Hazelton, The Literature Labyrinth of Nuclear Power: A Bibliography, 6 Envtl. L. 921-43 (1976).
James E. Bernstein, Penny Hazelton & Dennis J. Hubel, Clearcutting: Can You See the Forest for the Trees?, 5 Envtl. L. 85-126 (1974).

Books or Treatises

Specialized Legal Research (Penny A. Hazelton ed., rev. ed., Gallagher Law Library 2014, Supp. 2017).
Specialized Legal Research (Penny A. Hazelton ed., rev. ed., Gallagher Law Library 2014, Supp. 2016).
Specialized Legal Research (Penny A. Hazelton ed., rev. ed., Gallagher Law Library 2014, Supp. 2015).
Specialized Legal Research (Penny A. Hazelton ed., rev. ed., Gallagher Law Library 2014).
Specialized Legal Research (Penny A. Hazelton ed., Gallagher Law Library Supp. 2013).
Specialized Legal Research (Penny A. Hazelton ed., Aspen Supp. 2012).
Specialized Legal Research (Penny A. Hazelton ed., Aspen Supp. 2011).
Specialized Legal Research (Penny A. Hazelton ed., Aspen Supp. 2010).
Specialized Legal Research (Penny A. Hazelton ed., Aspen Supp. 2009).
Penny A. Hazelton et al., Washington Legal Researcher's Deskbook 3d (Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library 2002). 300 pages.
Penny Hazelton, “Key Cite in Legal Research,” Law Firm Training Materials for West Group, April 1999.
Penny A. Hazelton, Using KeyCite in Legal Research: Instructor’s Materials and Student Exercises (West Group 1998). 18 pages.
Penny A. Hazelton et al., Washington Legal Researcher's Deskbook, 2d (Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library 1996). 303 pages.
Martin Cerjan, Penny Hazelton, Peggy Roebuck Jarrett, Molly McCluer & Mary Whisner, Washington Legal Researcher's Deskbook (Washington Law School Foundation 1994). 306 pages.
Penny A. Hazelton, Computer-Assisted Legal Research: The Basics (West 1993). 73 pages.
Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States: 1790--1980 (Penny A. Hazelton comp., Hein 1987 & 1990). 14 pages & 45 microfiche.

Book Chapters

Penny A. Hazelton, Library Director as Mentor, in Academic Law Library Director Perspectives: Case Studies and INsights 97-110 (Michelle M. Wu ed., Wm. S. Hein & Co. 2015).
Penny A. Hazelton, Banking Law, in Specialized Legal Research 10-1 to 10-76 (Penny A. Hazelton ed., rev. ed., Gallagher Law Library 2014).
Penny A. Hazelton, Law Students and the New Law Library: An Old Paradigm, in Legal Education in the Digital Age 158-82 (Edward Rubin ed., Cambridge University Press 2012).
Penny A. Hazelton, The Education and Training of Law Librarians, in The IALL International Handbook of Legal Information Management 43-64 (Richard A. Danner & Jules Winterton eds., Ashgate 2011).
Penny A. Hazelton, Law Literature and Its Users, in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences 3235-51 (3d ed., Taylor & Francis 2010).
Penny A. Hazelton, Law Library Director of the Twenty-First Century, in How to Manage a Law School Library: Leading Librarians on Updating Resources, Managing Budgets, and Meeting Expectations 117-35 (Aspatore Books 2008).
Barbara A. Bintliff, Laura N. Gasaway, Penny A. Hazelton, Frank G. Houdek, Janis L. Johnston, Martha Dragich Pearson, Charles Ten Brink & Michelle Wu, So You Want to Be an Academic Law Library Director?, in Beyond the Books: People, Politics, and Librarianship 197-236 (Leslie A. Lee & Michelle M. Wu eds., Hein 2007).
Penny A. Hazelton, Configuration of the Law Library of the Future, in The Future of Law Libraries: Selected Articles from a Symposium on the Impact of Technology on Law Libraries and Law Classrooms of the Future, March 10-11, 2005, Amelia Island, Florida 44-57 (West 2006).
Penny A. Hazelton, Banking Law, in Specialized Legal Research 10-1 to -81 (Penny A. Hazelton ed., Aspen Supp. 2005).
Penny A. Hazelton, Indian Law Research in Washington, in Penny A. Hazelton et al., Washington Legal Researcher's Deskbook 3d, at 211-34 (Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library 2002).
Penny A. Hazelton, The Leader as Teacher, in Leadership Roles for Librarians 169-78 (Herbert E. Cihak & Joan S. Howland eds., William S. Hein 2002).
Penny A. Hazelton, The Process of Legal Research, in Penny A. Hazelton et al., Washington Legal Researcher's Deskbook 3d, at 21-45 (Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library 2002).
Penny A. Hazelton, Planning and Justifying Space for Collections, in Space Planning and Technology for Academic Law Libraries (Duke University School of Law 1999).
Penny A. Hazelton, The Process of Legal Research, in Penny A. Hazelton et al., Washington Legal Researcher's Deskbook, 2d, at 25-67 (Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library 1996).
Penny A. Hazelton & Peggy Roebuck Jarrett, How to Use a Law Library, in Penny A. Hazelton et al., Washington Legal Researcher's Deskbook, 2d, at 1-24 (Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library (1996).
Penny A. Hazelton, Computer-Assisted Legal Research, in Marjorie Dick Rombauer, Legal Problem Solving: Analysis, Research & Writing 275-332 (5th ed., West 1991).
Penny A. Hazelton, Integrating Manual and Computer Legal Research, in The Spirit of Law Librarianship: A Reader 225-46 (Roy Mersky & Richard Leiter eds., Rothman & Co. 1991).

Book Reviews

Penny A. Hazelton, Book Review, 49 J. Am. Soc'y Info. Sci. 1332-33 (Dec. 1998) (reviewing Yvonne J. Chandler, Guide to Finding Legal and Regulatory Information on the Internet (1998)).
Penny A. Hazelton, Book Review, 3 Persp.: Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 44-45 (1995) (reviewing Christopher G. Wren & Jill Robinson Wren, Using Computers in Legal Research: A Guide to LEXIS and WESTLAW (1994)).
Penny A. Hazelton, Book Review, 8 Legal Reference Services Q. 268-70 (1988) (reviewing Ron Lansing, Skylarks and Lecterns: A Law School Charter (1983)).
Penny A. Hazelton, A Book Review--Or What You Never Wanted to Know About Bibliographies, 17 Envtl. L. 355-64 (1987) (reviewing Law, Natural Resources, and Land Use: The Environmental Collection of the Paul L. Boley Law Library (Joe Stephens ed. 1986)).

Professional Publications

Penny A. Hazelton, Practical Tips for Academic Employers: How to Make a Great Impression and Hire the Best Librarian for the Job, AALL Spectrum, Nov. 2011, at 12-13.
Penny A. Hazelton, The Magic of a Closed Day, Law Libr. New Millennium (West Libr. Relations), Nov-Dec. 2005, at 1, 3.
Penny A. Hazelton, Rebuilding the Profession: A Workshop for Librarians Interested in an Academic Directorship – A Reprise, LLOPSCited (Law Libr. Puget Sound), Fall 2005, at 13-14.
Penny A. Hazelton & Jonathan Franklin, Moving a Law Library, AALL Spectrum, May 2004, at 22-23.
Penny Hazelton, Condon to Gates: Some Lessons, LLOPSCited (Law Libr. Puget Sound), Winter 2004, at 4-5.
Penny A. Hazelton, Hot Topics: Grief in the Workplace, Law Libr. Lights (Law Libr. Soc'y Wash. D.C.), Winter 2001, at 1, 3-6.
Penny A. Hazelton, Books? Why?, Soc. L. @ Large (Soc. L. Libr. Bos.), Oct. 2001, at 1, 3.
Penny A. Hazelton, Help Wanted: Ensuring the Survival of Law Librarianship, AALL Spectrum (Am. Ass'n L. Libr.), Oct. 1999, at 17-20.
Penny A. Hazelton, Library Highlights: Electronic Law Library, Syllabus (Am. B. Ass'n Section Legal Ed. & Admissions B.), Summer 1999, at 12.
Penny Hazelton, Spotlight on Legal Research: Academia Now: Nonpreferred Customers, AmLaw Tech, Summer 1998, at 83.
Penny A. Hazelton, Law Librarians as "Resourceful Strategists,” Info. Innovators (West Pub.), July 1996, at 5.
Penny Hazelton, Marion [sic] Gould Gallagher Library, ALL-SIS Newsl. (Acad. L. Libr. Spec. Interest Section), Summer 1994, at 1-3.
Penny A. Hazelton, Law Libraries as Special Libraries: An Educational Model, 42 Libr. Trends 319-41 (1993).
Law Librarianship--A Forum, Law Libr. Lights (Law Libr. Soc'y Wash. D.C.), May-June 1992, at 1, 3-12.
Penny Hazelton, Symposium Stimulates Thinking on Library Education and Specialization, 23 AALL Newsl. (Am. Ass'n L. Libr.) 662-63 (1992).
Penny Hazelton, “From the President,” monthly columns in AALL Newsletter, October 1990–July 1991.
Penny A. Hazelton, Education for Law Librarians, 48 Bookmark 278-81 (1990).
Penny A. Hazelton, Law Librarians and Teaching in Library Schools, Trends L. Libr. Mgmt. & Tech., Oct. 1988, at 4-6.
Penny A. Hazelton, The How and Why of the American Association of Law Libraries, Law Libr. Lights (Law Libr. Soc'y Wash. D.C.), Nov. 1984, at 5-6.

News Media

Penny A. Hazelton, The Law School Library: It’s More Than Just Books, Nat'l L. J., July 17, 2000, at C3, 5.
Penny A. Hazelton, Analyze, Evaluate, Deal: Here Are a Few Tips on Spending Your Legal Research Dollars Wisely, Wash. J., July 11, 1994, at Special Focus 9.

Speaker, "Legal Research and Writing", Readmission Workshop, Washington State Bar Association (March 19, 2015)
Speaker, "Lawyer Access to Final Agency Access in Oregon and Washington", Oregon State Bar CLE Seminars, Northwest Administrative Law Institute (September 20, 2014)
Speaker, "The CTC and International Research and Information Systems", with Ruth Bird & Kyle Brown, Third Conference, Cape Town Convention Academic Project (September 10, 2014)
Speaker, "Legal Research and Writing", Readmission CLE, Washington State Bar Association (August 14, 2014)
Speaker, "Orbis Cascade Alliance Summit: A Library Management Service Model for the Future: The Director’s View", Annual Meeting, American Association of Law Libraries (July 15, 2014)
Speaker, "Legal Research and Writing", Readmission CLE, Washington State Bar Association (March 1, 2014)
Speaker, "The Law Library: Creative and Strategic Innovation in the Midst of Change", Annual Meeting, Association of American Law Schools (January 3, 2014)
Speaker, "Legal Research and Writing", Readmission CLE, Washington State Bar Association (August 1, 2013)
Speaker, "Legal Research and Writing", Readmission CLE, Washington State Bar Association (February 1, 2013)
Speaker, "Legal Research and Writing", Readmission CLE, Washington State Bar Association (August 16, 2012)
Speaker, "Legal Research and Writing", Readmission CLE, Washington State Bar Association (February 1, 2012)
Moderator and speaker, "When Worlds Collide: Keeping the Planets Aligned During Times of Opportunity and Change for Law Schools and Law Libraries", Annual Meeting, Association of American Law Schools (January 7, 2012)
Speaker, "Legal Research and Writing", Readmission CLE, Washington State Bar Association (August 1, 2011)
Panelist, "Meeting Employers’ Expectations: Are Library Schools Doing Everything They Can?", Annual Meeting, American Association of Law Libraries (July 25, 2011)
Speaker, "Training New Law Librarians", Workshop for Library Directors and Librarians, 2d Conference of the Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries (July 22, 2011)