Donna Nixon has many responsibilities in her roles as Electronic Resources Librarian and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Listen to her conversation with Karen Oesterle about her work curating the school’s archives, digitizing critical historical documents for accessibility, and her research and law review article on integration at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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Donna Nixon
Donna Nixon is Electronic Resources Librarian and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. She provides reference services and licenses and manages the law library’s online resources, including journals, electronic books, and media. She also teaches legal research and Introduction to Law of the U.S. She is curator of the digital collection Law School First – The African Americans Who Integrated UNC-Chapel Hill and author of a North Carolina Law Review essay which documents the successful legal fight by the five men who integrated UNC-Chapel Hill.
Prof. Nixon holds a degree in computer science from Brooklyn College, a J.D. degree from Stanford Law School, and a Master’s in Library Science from UNC Chapel Hill. She briefly practiced law in the licensing division of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro before obtaining her MSLS She served as a Reference/Access Services Librarian at Carolina Law, then Head of Reference Services at Duke University Law Library where she taught first-year legal research. Upon returning to Carolina Law, Professor Nixon served as Assistant Director for Public Services and then as Electronic Resources & Access Services Librarian.
