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Mary Rumsey is the reference and instructional services librarian at the Willamette University College of Law Library. She is a member of the CALI Editorial Board. She also is a member of the American Society of International Law, and the former chair of the Foreign, Comparative & International Law Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries. She has written extensively on library and legal research issues, with two of her publications receiving national awards.
Rumsey received her B.A. degree (with distinction) from the University of Wisconsin in 1981, a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1984, and an M.L.I.S. from Dominican University in 1998. She practiced law for two years and then worked for West Group in its Westlaw Research and Development department. Rumsey was the Electronic Services Librarian at the William Mitchell College of Law and then taught foreign and international legal research at the University of Minnesota Law Library from 2000 to 2014.