Teresa Miguel-Stearns

Teresa Miguel-Stearns is a law library polymath. She recently became Director of the Law Library at The University of Arizona after 15 years in various positions at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School. Teresa is the co-founder and creator of ALLStAR Benchmarking, a leading data collection and analysis tool for U.S. academic law libraries. She and the ALLStAR team were awarded the American Association of Law Libraries’ “Innovations in Technology Award” for 2020. Teresa led a team of librarians to create Global Online Access to Legal Information (GOALI), part of a public-private partnership that delivers licensed research and scholarship to institutions in developing countries at low or no cost (the name may reference that Teresa is also a professional soccer player and referee). In addition, Teresa founded SELA Bibliotecarios, an annual meeting of Latin American law librarians, with the goal of creating a network of law librarians throughout Latin America and increasing the profile of law librarians and the profession of librarianship throughout the region.