F. Richard Vaughan
Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Law
Office: 101JPhone: 812-855-4199
E-mail: rvaughan@indiana.edu
B.A., 1980, Hampshire College; M.L.S., 1983, Indiana University. Head, Acquisitions and Periodicals, Austin Peay State University, 1983-87. Assistant Technical Services Librarian, University of Maryland, 1987-90.
Mr. Vaughan joined the Law Library staff in 1990, bringing his broad experience to the technical services department. As the acquisitions and serials control librarian, he oversees both the financial and procedural aspects of the area.
Active in university and national committees, he has served on the Bloomington Library Faculty Council and has chaired the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV) as well as the AALL Price Index for Legal Publications Advisory Committee. Long active in vendor relations activities, Mr. Vaughan has also twice served as the editor of the CRIV's newsletter, the CRIV Sheet.
Although he has written numerous articles on issues within librarianship, the main focus of his research is the life of George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), American ethnologist, naturalist, writer and newspaper editor. His most recent Grinnell publication, "Broad are Nebraska's Rolling Plains: The Early Writings of George Bird Grinnell," can be found in Nebraska History (v.83 no.1.). Mr. Vaughan also serves as Book Review Editor of The Journal of the West.