CURRICULUM VITAE
Paul Axel-Lute

last updated April 2008

Education

• B.A., Brandeis University, 1968
• Completed one year at Rutgers School of Law, Newark, 1970- 71
• M.L.S., Rutgers Graduate School of Library Service, 1973

Employment

• Federal Documents Librarian, Sept.1973--June 1979
• Head of User Services, July 1979--Oct.1983
• Collection Development Librarian, Nov.1983 to date(and Acting Director, July 1992-- June 1993, and Deputy Director thereafter) Functions performed include book selection and deselection, space planning, budgeting and fiscal control; administrative aspects of librarian personnel matters; also participate in reference and faculty liaison work.

Publications

• "Notes on a Utopian Information System," in Revolting Librarians, Celeste West & Elizabeth Katz, eds., San Francisco: Booklegger Press, 1972, p. 145-147.
• Book reviews: Government Publications Review 2(4):374 (1975), 3(2):158 (1976), 3(3):225-227 (1976); Documents to the People 4(3):75-76 (May 1976), 4(6): 16 (Nov.1976).
• "How Soon Do Public Laws Reach the Public?" Documents to the People 3(8):33-34 (Nov.1975)
• Legislation Regulating Smoking Areas: A Selective Annotated Bibliography, June 1976, published by U.S.Dept. H.E.W., National Clearinghouse for Smoking & Health, Atlanta, Dec.1976, 23 p.
• "Selected Federal Documents on Women's Rights," Women's Rights Law Reporter 4(2):126-132 (1978)
• "Legislation Against Smoking Pollution," Environmental Affairs 6:345-371 (1978)
• "Recent Developments in Federal Documents," Law Library Journal 71:247-256 (1978)
• "Federal Documents, 1978," Law Library Journal 72:222-234 (1979)
• "Capsule Description of User Services in Fifty Large Law School Libraries," Law Library Journal 73:726-730 (1980)
• "Legal Citation Form: Theory and Practice," Law Library Journal 75:149-156 (1982)
• "Legal Bibliography Texts and Free Course Materials: A Selective Annotated List," Legal Reference Services Quarterly 4:59-64 (1984)
• New Jersey Legal Research Handbook, N.J.Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1984; 2nd ed. 1996; 3rd ed. 1997; 4th ed. 1998, and on-line supplement at http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~axellute/njlrsupp.html; 5th ed. forthcoming 2008
• Lakewood-in-the-Pines: A History of Lakewood, New Jersey, self-published with grant-in-aid from N.J.Historical Commision, 1986, 189 p.
• "Law Books in New Jersey Libraries," New Jersey Libraries 20:4-11 (Spring 1987)
• "Acronyms of Federal and Uniform Acts," Legal Reference Services Quarterly 8:235-245 (1988)
• "Speed of Publication of Statutes and Regulations in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States," Law Library Journal 80:415-427 (1988)
• "A Method for Detecting Cases Missing from the Online Services," Trends in Law Library Management and Technology 4(5):4-5 (Dec.1990/ Jan.1991)
• "Notes on the Legislative History of Laws of 1995 Chapter 319," NJLLA In Brief 9(4):11-12 (Apr.- May 1996)
• "Same-Sex Marriage"(Pathfinder) http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~axellute/ssm.htm (Oct.1996)
• "Robert N. Wilentz: A Bibliography," Rutgers Law Review 49:1215-1230 (1997)
• "Works of George Sternlieb" [bibliography] (Oct.1997), distributed at Second Annual Norman Williams Jr. Symposium in Law and Public Policy, focusing on Urban Housing Markets and Public Policy, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, New Brunswick, Apr.24,1998.
• "New Jersey's Chief Justices 1948--: Selected References," http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/ ~axellute/chiefs.html (Nov.1997)
• "New Jersey Religious Freedom Bill," http://essexuu.org/njrfbill.html (March 1998, updated Apr.2004)
• "Currency of New Jersey Case Law Online," NJLLA In Brief 12(3):16 (Spring 2000)   (also posted at http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~axellute/currency.html )
• Internet Law Guide, http://law-library.rutgers.edu/ilg/ilg.html (formerly maintained as "Subject Research Guides: Law," at Rutgers University Libraries site, Spring 2000 to Summer 2004, and thereafter on Rutgers-Newark Law Library site)
• "New Jersey Case Law, Statute Law, and Regulations Currency On-Line, Dec.10,2001- Feb.11,2002," http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~axellute/curr0102.html
• "A Selection of New Jersey Governors' Executive Orders of Government-Wide Significance, Evidently Still in Force," http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~axellute/eoif.html (Aug. 2002, revised April 2008)
• "Same-Sex Marriage: A Selective Bibliography," http://law-library.rutgers.edu/SSM.html (Sept. 2002--)
• "Comparing Our Annotated Codes," NJLLA In-Site, 2(2):6-8 (Winter 2004) (available at http://www.njlla.org/associations/1801/NJLLAWinter2004.pdf)
• Articles on Joseph C. Hornblower, Robert N. Wilentz, and the New Jersey Lawyer newspaper, in Encyclopedia of New Jersey (2004).
• "The Law of Slavery in New Jersey: an Annotated Bibliography," http://njlegallib.rutgers.edu/slavery/bibliog.html (Jan. 2005)
• Introductions to Lawbook Exchange Ltd. reprints of Revision of the Statutes of New Jersey (1877) and General Statutes of New Jersey (1895) (October 2005)
• "Finding English Statutes & Cases & Selected 'Books of Authority' at the Rutgers-Newark Law Library," http://law-library.rutgers.edu/resources/english-statutes-and-cases.php (2005, revised 2007)
• "Legal History Pathfinder," http://law-library.rutgers.edu/resources/legal_history_pathfinder.php (2007)

Teaching

• Legal Bibliography (for Rutgers School of Communication, Information, & Library Studies), 1978 to 1990.
• Taught session on New Jersey resources in Prof. Roehrenbeck's Advanced Legal Research seminar, Rutgers Law School, each spring 1998 to date.
• Taught sessions on legal research for Dean Ronald Clarke's Foundations of Scholarship course, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, fall 2001 and each fall 2003 to date.
• Presented workshop on New Jersey legislative history on the Internet, at Rutgers Law Library, Apr.4,2002 and later dates.

Other

• Government Documents Association of New Jersey: Vice-President (President-Elect) 1976-77 & President 1977-78.
• Consultant/contributor to Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary, Gale Research Company, 12th to 14th editions (1988-1990)
• New Jersey Law Librarians Association: Committee on Improving New Jersey's Legal Publications: Chair 1989-91; Government Affairs and Legal Information Committee: Chair 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07.