About the Library
The Barry Law Library educates, enlightens, and empowers students, scholars, and citizens. We provide access to legal information and support scholarship with innovative instruction, methods, and resources. We enhance legal knowledge by cultivating well-rounded, practical research skills in the attorneys of today and tomorrow.
The Law Library houses materials to support the law school curriculum and the scholarship needs of Barry Law students, faculty, and staff. Occupying a three-story building on the north side of the campus, the Law Library houses an extensive collection of legal materials including federal and state statutes, case reporters, and digests, monographs, treatises, secondary resources, legal periodicals, and newspapers, with a focus on Florida-specific legal resources.
Reference Librarians with law degrees are available to assist with research and reference for students, faculty, and members of the Orlando legal community.
Barry University School of Law Vision & Mission Statements
Barry Law Library Vision Statement
We Empower Discovery.
Barry Law Library Mission Statement
The Barry Law Library educates, enlightens, and empowers students, scholars, and citizens.
We provide access to legal information and support scholarship with innovative instruction, methods, and resources.
We enhance legal knowledge by cultivating well-rounded, practical research skills in the attorneys of today and tomorrow.
Barry University School of Law Mission Statement
Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law is the only Dominican Law School in the United States and the first American Law School to be part of a university founded by women religious. The School of Law endeavors to offer a quality legal education in a caring environment with a religious dimension so that study and reflection lead to informed action and a commitment to social justice leads to collaborative service. The School of Law promotes the highest standards of ethics and competence in the practice of law and other pursuits. The School of Law seeks to challenge students to embrace intellectual, personal, ethical, spiritual, ecological, and social responsibilities in an atmosphere of academic freedom. The program strives to equip its graduates to apply the knowledge, values, and skills they acquire to enhance personal growth, the legal profession, the judicial system, society, and the Earth community. Within its Catholic Dominican tradition, the School of Law values matters of faith through religious freedom. The School of Law seeks to enhance diversity in our community and the profession and endorses recruitment and retention of members of underrepresented groups, particularly racial and ethnic minorities, in order to create a more diverse faculty, staff, and student body.
Amended by the faculty of the School of Law on Aug. 16, 2013.
Barry University Mission Statement and Core Commitments
Mission Statement
Barry University is a Catholic institution of higher education founded in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican Sisters. Grounded in the liberal arts tradition, Barry University is a scholarly community committed to the highest academic standards in undergraduate, graduate and professional education.
In the Catholic intellectual tradition, integration of study, reflection and action inform the intellectual life. Faithful to this tradition, a Barry education and university experience foster individual and communal transformation where learning leads to knowledge and truth, reflection leads to informed action, and a commitment to social justice leads to collaborative service.
Barry University provides opportunities for affirming our Catholic identity, Dominican heritage, and collegiate traditions. Catholic beliefs and values are enriched by ecumenical and interfaith dialog.
Through worship and ritual, we celebrate our religious identity while remaining a University community where all are welcome.
Core Commitments
Catholic intellectual and religious traditions guide us in the fulfillment of our mission. The mission and values of the Adrian Dominican Sisters serve as the inspiration for our core commitments.
Knowledge and Truth
Barry promotes and supports the intellectual life, emphasizing life-long learning, growth and development. The University pursues scholarly and critical analysis of fundamental questions of the human experience. In the pursuit of truth, the University advances development of solutions that promote the common good and a more humane and just society.
Inclusive Community
Barry is a global, inclusive community characterized by interdependence, dignity and equality, compassion and respect for self and others. Embracing a global world view, the University nurtures and values cultural, social and intellectual diversity, and welcomes faculty, staff, and students of all faith traditions.
Social Justice
Barry expects all members of our community to accept social responsibility to foster peace and nonviolence, to strive for equality, to recognize the sacredness of Earth, and to engage in meaningful efforts toward social change. The University promotes social justice through teaching, research and service.
Collaborative Service
Barry is committed to serving local and global communities through collaborative and mutually productive partnerships. The University accepts responsibility to engage with communities to pursue systemic, self-sustaining solutions to human, social, economic and environmental problems.
Approved by the President and the Executive Committee of the Administration on May 15, 2008; approved by the Board of Trustees on May 30, 2008; submitted to the General Council of the Adrian Dominican Sisters for final approval; Council approval received via letter from Sister Rosa Monique Pena, OP on June 20, 2008.
Library Staff
Administration
Beth Parker, JD, MA, MIS
Associate Dean for Information Services/Law Library Director and Assistant Professor of Law
mparker@barry.edu
321-206-5701
Diana Botluk, JD, MS
Associate Director and Head of Public Services
dbotluk@barry.edu
321-206-5703
Brandon Davies
Administrative Assistant III
bdavies@barry.edu
321-206-5702
Reference Librarians
Cynthia Barnes, JD, MS
Reference Librarian,
Assistant Professor of Law Library
cbarnes@barry.edu
321-206-5729
Jason Murray, JD, MSLS
Reference Librarian,
Associate Professor of Law Library
jwmurray@barry.edu
321-206-5725
Kim Wilson, JD, MSIS
Reference Librarian,
Assistant Professor of Law Library
kwilson@barry.edu
321-206-5728
Circulation
Megan Humphries, MLS
Access Services Librarian,
Circulation Supervisor
mhumphries@barry.edu
321-206-5719
Ashley Allensworth
Evening Circulation Assistant
aallensworth@barry.edu
321-206-5708
Sarah Alexander
Evening Circulation Assistant
salexander@barry.edu
321-206-5711
Technical Services
Marin Dell, LLM, JD, MLIS, MS/MIS
Head of Technical Services
ddell@barry.edu
321-206-5718
Viri Rosas, MLIS
Electronic Resources Librarian
vrosas@barry.edu
321-206-5709
Terry Rogers
Technical Services Coordinator
trogers@barry.edu
321-206-5717
Contact Us
Circulation Desk: 321-206-5700
Circulation: lawcirc@barry.edu
Reference: LawReferenceLibrarians@barry.edu
