Tom Gaylord
Associate Law Librarian for Scholarly Communications
Biography
Tom Gaylord is the Associate Law Librarian for Scholarly Communications in the Pritzker Legal Research Center. In this role, he supports the promotion of faculty scholarship both internally and externally, supports other departments in increasing the visibility of faculty scholarship, occasionally guest lectures in classroom instruction, serves as library liaison for several faculty members, is a member of the library’s Selection Team, and provides reference assistance to the law school community. He is the former editor of Law Library Journal, and prior to joining the Pritzker Legal Research Center, he practiced law, worked as an environmental consultant, was an attorney editor at West Publishing, and was a reference librarian at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Areas of Expertise
- The United States Supreme Court
- Legal Publishing
Selected Publications
- The SCALES Project: Making Federal Court Records Free, 119 Northwestern University Law Review 23 (2024) (with David L. Schwartz, Kat M. Albrecht, Adam R. Pah, Christopher A. Cotropia, Amy Kristin Sanders, Sarath Sanga, Charlotte S. Alexander, Luís A.N. Amaral, Zachary D. Clopton, Anne M. Tucker, Scott G. Daniel & Nathan Dahlberg).
- Designing Data Projects Using Court Records, AALL Spectrum 12 (Nov./Dec. 2022) (with Rebecca Fordon, Heidi Frostestad Kuehl, & Adam R. Pah).
Education
- BA, Illinois Wesleyan University
- JD, University of Illinois College of Law
- MLIS, Dominican University Graduate School of Library & Information Science