Associate Dean Ahlers joined the
faculty in June of 2002. He is primarily responsible
for serving the information needs of the entire Barry-Orlando
Campus community. In his capacity of Associate Dean
for Information Resources, Ahlers oversees the law library
and technology functions on campus. Dean Ahlers has
worked in all types of libraries beginning with a stint
as a student assistant in second grade. Over one-half
of his forty years of library experience is in law school
libraries; including over a dozen years as a law school
library director at The District of Columbia and University
of Arkansas Schools of Law.
Dean Ahlers served as President of the Mid-America
Association of Law Libraries, President of the Southwestern
Association of Law Libraries and President of the Mid-America
Law School Library Consortium. Ahlers served as Technical
Editor of the Washburn Law Review and has contributed
articles to other law journals. In 2002 he published
The History of Law School Libraries in the United States:
From Laboratory to Cyberspace (William S. Hein &
Co.) and continued the regular supplementation of his
three-volume set, United States Election Laws (Oceana
Publications). Ahlers also co-authored Notary Law and
Practice: Cases and Materials (National Notary Association).
Ahlers is also the Executive Director of Scribes, an
organization of attorneys, judges, and legal educators,
all of whom have written, edited, or published law books
and articles about the law. Scribes was founded to try
to improve legal writing and is now headquartered here
at Barry.
Ahlers is licensed to practice law in Kansas, Washington
D.C., and before the U.S. Military Court of Appeals. |
