Eli Edwards

Eli Edwards is a reference librarian at UCLA School of Law, where she teaches advanced legal research and supervises a small battalion of student research assistants. Previously, she was the Emerging Technologies Research Library at Santa Clara University School of Law. Before embracing librarianship, she was a Jill of all Trades, Mistress of None: she worked at Los Angeles Public Library, in a bookstore, in investor relations, as a substitute teacher, a proofreader for an alternative newspaper, Stanford University, a couple of for-profit educational institutions … and Ticketmaster. Being from Los Angeles, she also spent a few weeks as an extra on several television shows from the early 90s – you won’t remember them.

Since becoming a librarian (MLIS – San Jose State; JD – Santa Clara University), she’s also worked a lot of jobs: at the Internet Archive as a metadata intern; for Justia as an online editor of free legal information; at the Western District of Washington for the Ninth Circuit providing reference; two law firms (in Seattle & San Francisco, respectively. Her professional concerns include access to the law, governmental accountability, scholarly communications, techlaw, and legal technology.