{"id":10880,"date":"2015-09-21T03:24:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/ellen-frentzen\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:57:34","slug":"ellen-frentzen","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/ellen-frentzen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Frentzen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Ellen Frentzen<\/strong> joined the Fineman &amp; Pappas Law Libraries in December 2012. As the Assistant Librarian for Administration, she works on planning, management, and assessment of library services, systems, and collections, as well as <\/span><span class=\"s2\">providing assistance at <\/span><span class=\"s1\">the reference desk and teaching legal research to students in the First Year Writing and American Law LLM programs and the law library\u2019s Research Skills for Practice Program. Previously she worked as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at the University of South Carolina\u2019s Coleman Karesh Law Library and an intern at both the Social Law Library and the Marian Gould Gallagher Library at the University of Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ellen received her Master\u2019s in Library and Information Science with a specialization in Law Librarianship from the University of Washington and her JD with a concurrent LLM in International and Comparative Law from Cornell Law School. While at Cornell, she was a Managing Editor for the <i>Cornell Journal of Law &amp; Public Policy<\/i>, a Bench Editor for the Moot Court Board, and a Research Assistant for the Cornell eRulemaking Initiative (CeRI). Her primary research interests are library assessment, management, and government documents. She also regularly writes and presents on teaching legal research and skills-based learning to millennials. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She is an active member of the American Association of Law Libraries, where she has served on the Research and Scholarship Committee and the Annual Meeting Program Committee, and Law Librarians of New England, where she currently serves as an Education Director.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4833,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124885,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10880\/revisions\/124885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}