Matthews, Elizabeth W(oodfin)

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MATTHEWS, Elizabeth W(oodfin)

MATTHEWS, Elizabeth W(oodfin). American, b. 1927. Genres: Librarianship, Bibliography, Reference. Career: Virginia State Library, Richmond, library assistant, 1948-49; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, assistant in Browsing Room, 1949-50; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, library assistant, 1950-51; Ohio State University, Columbus, cataloger at university library, 1952-59; Battelle Memorial Institute, librarian, 1956; University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, cataloger and instructor in library science, 1962-63; Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, cataloger, 1963-64; University of Illinois at Urbana/ Champaign, lecturer in library science, 1964; Morris Library, medical librarian, 1972-74, law librarian, 1974-92. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, catalog librarian, 1964-67, instructor, 1967-70, assistant professor, 1972-79, associate professor, 1979-85, professor, 1985-92, professor emerita, 1992-. Publications: Access Points to the Law Library, 1982; Pages and Missing Pages in Virginia Courthouse Records, 1983, 2nd ed, 1989; Virginia Vignettes, 1984; Seventeenth Century English Law Reports in Folio, 1986; The Law Library Reference Shelf, 1988, 5th ed., 2003; Lincoln as a Lawyer: An Annotated Bibliography, 1992. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals. Address: 811 S Skyline Dr, Carbondale, IL 62901, U.S.A.

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