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Head of Faculty and Research Services and Professor of Legal Research
Penn State Law
University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
Rebecca Mattson is the Head of Faculty and Research Services and Professor of Legal Research at Penn State Law. As head of faculty and research services, Professor Mattson provides leadership within the H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law Library in planning and implementing scholarly support and research services. She manages a robust pool of library research assistants and provides annual training for faculty research assistants. Professor Mattson manages the Penn State Law eLibrary, the law school’s faculty scholarship repository, as well as the Penn State Law Legal Research Paper Series, and provides enhanced support for faculty scholarship and research. As the administrator of the eLibrary, she is the primary library liaison with law school journals, assisting in training, site development, and publication. In addition, Professor Mattson teaches Legal Research Tools and Strategies, the 1L legal research course, and Researching Administrative Law, an upper-level research course.
Professor Mattson is actively involved in the American Association of Law Libraries. She is the founding and current chair of the Teaching the Teachers Conference for Law Librarians planning committee, a past RIPS-SIS Chair, and a past SIS Council Chair. Prior to coming to Penn State Law, she served as a law librarian at Cleveland State University College of Law, a research librarian at Harris Beach, PLLC, and as an attorney editor for West/Thomson Reuters.
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