As Deputy Director of the Library, Sara manages the day-to-day operations of the library including budgeting, collections, facilities, personnel, and services.
Before arriving at UNC, Sara worked at Georgetown University as the Head of Reference and an adjunct professor. While at Georgetown, she taught Legal Research Skills for Practice, Advanced Legal Research, and Introduction to Scholarly Note Writing. She conducted a content analysis of Georgetown Law Library chat reference service transcripts with Library Resident Yasmin Morais, which was published in Legal Reference Services Quarterly.
She was also a reference librarian and adjunct legal writing professor at Ohio State University College of Law. She taught Legal Research, Appellate Advocacy, and Legal Writing and Analysis. At Ohio State, she was a member of the Election Law @ Moritz Team and developed an expertise in election law research. As a result, she published an election law research guide in Election Law Cases and Materials and a guide to Ohio initiative and referendum research in Legal Reference Services Quarterly.
Sara is actively involved in library professional organizations. She regularly speaks at library conferences. She currently chairs the Research and Publication committee of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and serves on the Program Committee for the Academic Law Libraries section of AALL (ALL-SIS). She has previously served as the Vice President of the Law Librarians Society of Washington, DC and the Secretary/Treasurer of ALL-SIS. She has chaired several committees for ALL-SIS: the Archives and Website Committee, the Programs Committee, and Faculty Services Committee. She has also served as editor and assistant editor of LLSDC's Law Library Lights.
Sara has also taught courses in the library schools at both the University of Maryland and the Catholic University of America and in the paralegal program at Georgetown University.
Before becoming a librarian, Sara spent five years as a judicial law clerk at the Ohio Fourth District Court of Appeals. She is a member of the Ohio bar and Beta Phi Mu, the International Library & Information Studies Honor Society.