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Theresa K. Tarves

Theresa K. Tarves

Associate Director of the Law Library and Professor of Legal Research
Director, Legal-Tech Virtual Lab

Email: 
tkb115@psu.edu
Phone: 
(814) 863-6861
Education: 

J.D., Seton Hall University
M.L.I.S., Rutgers University
B.A., Penn State University

As Interim Associate Dean for Library and Information Services, Theresa K. Tarves is responsible for strategic planning and oversight of the Law Library. She oversees budget administration, project identification and implementation, electronic resource administration, and technology implementation. Additionally, Tarves teaches both 1L Legal Research and upper-level legal research courses. Her research interests include evidence-based pedagogy focusing on assessing legal research competencies and legal technology competence including generative AI.

As Director of the Legal-Tech Virtual Lab, Tarves works with key stakeholders at Penn State and leading technology vendors to plan programming related to legal technology and provide students with exposure to legal technology tools to use in practice today. She was awarded the 2019 American Association of Law Libraries Innovation in Technology Award for her work with the Lab. 

Prior to joining Penn State Law, Tarves served as manager of research services for the Knowledge Management Division of the Philadelphia firm of Fox Rothschild, LLP. She previously served as associate counsel/compliance officer for a major medical reference laboratory in New Jersey focusing on healthcare compliance.

Designing and Implementing Research Competency, AALL Spectrum 23(4) 3 (March/April 2019) (with A. Pal & N.M. Downing)

Teaching Cost-Effective Legal Research Skills: Tips for Effective and Efficient Legal Research, AALL Spectrum, March/April 2016 (with Rebecca A. Mattson)

Why Can’t I Just Use Westlaw or Lexis? Promoting Lesser Known Legal Research Platforms to Law Students, Focus on Outreach, Spring 2016, at 3

Dickinson Law and Penn State Law Libraries, in Academic Law Library Structures: Past, Present, and Future (Beth Adelman & Jessica de Perio Wittman, eds.) (forthcoming, 2022) (with L. Ax-Fultz)

Legal Education and AI, in Law Librarianship in the Age of AI (Ellyssa Kroski, ed.) (2019)

Tarves, T. K. (2019). Legal Education and AI. In Ellyssa Kroski (Ed.), Law Librarianship in the Age of AI (pp. 14). Chicago, Illinois: ALA Editions. ISBN/ISSN #/Case #/DOI #: 978-0-8389-4627-5

Tarves, T. K. (Co-Author, 33.3%), Pal, A., & Downing, N. M. (2019). Designing and Implementing Research Competency. AALL Spectrum, 23(4), 3.

Tarves, T. K. (Co-Author, 50%), & Mattson, R. A. (2016). Teaching Cost-Effective Research Skills: Tips for Effective and Efficient Legal Research. AALL Spectrum, 20(4), 4.