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Dawn Smith Dawn Smith is the associate director for Technical Services for the Lillian Goldman Law Library. She came to Yale Library after 10 years at the Loyola Los Angeles Law School—now Loyola Marymount Law School—where she most recently held the position of head of technical services. Dawn oversees the library’s acquisitions of materials in all formats and makes them accessible to members of the university community. She also manages the budget for the law library’s collection. Recently, Dawn has been serving as the project lead in the law library’s migration from its integrated library

Monica Reed has been a designer at Yale University for more than 16 years. Formerly with Yale School of Music and the Digital Humanities Lab, she has recently brought her expertise to Yale Library Communications. As senior digital and web designer since 2022, Monica produces a wide range of digital media and graphics that support the library’s identity and mission. “I am also involved in thinking strategically about the future of the library’s website, especially now as we are trying to reimagine the site on a new platform—Drupal 10—in the near future,” Monica said. Migrating to the new site