Jason R. Sowards

About Jason R. Sowards

At Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, my role as Director of Knowledge Solutions is underpinned…

Experience

1. Instructor

   Library Juice Academy

   Jan 2018 — Present

   At least once a year I teach a course titled “Legal Materials for Information Professionals.” The course, designed for individuals who will encounter legal information, but who do not specialize in it, or are new to legal information in their careers. The course introduces not only legal materials as they are produced by each branch of government, but also current issues that intersect with legal materials and legal information, such as access to justice, and artificial intelligence.

Education

• University of Kentucky

  MLS, Library Science

  2005 — 2006

• Western Governors University

  Master of Education (M.Ed.), Instructional Design

  2011 — 2014

• University of Kentucky

  BA, Economics (Political Science Minor)

  1996 — 1999

• Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville

  JD, Law

  2001 — 2004

• University of Kentucky

  MS, Economics

  1999 — 2001

Skills

• Westlaw
• Research
• Metadata
• Libraries
• Library
• Library Management
• Library Services
• Reference
• Libguides
• Collection Development
• Editing
• Empirical Research
• Library Instruction
• Social Media
• Reference Services
• Library Research
• Content Management
• Wordpress
• Teaching
• Instructional Design
• Electronic Resources
• Legal Research
• Spanish
• Academic Libraries
• Web Design
• Information Literacy
• Higher Education
• Web 2.0
• E-Learning
• Writing
• Library Science
• Digitization