Professor Julie Tedjeske Crane participates in multiple sessions at Law Libraries Conference

August 2025—Professor Julie Tedjeske Crane showcased her wide-ranging expertise at the recent American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) annual conference, where her scholarly contributions helped shape discussions on law librarianship and legal research instruction.

Her engagement began before the official start of the AALL conference with a presentation at the CoLIST/Boulder Conference. In this forum, law librarians can receive feedback on drafts from experienced authors. Crane shared an early draft of her paper "Using Fink's Taxonomy to Design Legal Research Courses that Promote Significant Learning." Continuing her preconference involvement, Crane participated in the preconference workshop "Teaching the Tech Trainers — AI Edition," where she presented on "Fostering Co-Intelligence While Maintaining Academic Integrity in Legal Research Instruction."

During the main AALL conference, Crane co-coordinated and co-moderated a hot topics session titled "Beyond Point-and-Click Instruction: Teaching Analysis in Legal Research." She concluded her conference contributions as a speaker on the panel "The Power and Peril of Unfinished Work: How to Manage the Brain’s Obsession with Your 'To-Do' List to Increase Emotional Well-Being and Productivity."

Professor Crane’s diverse areas of participation reflect her ongoing commitment to advancing instructional design, integrating technology into legal research, and promoting the well-being of both law librarians and law students. AALL is an organization comprising approximately 3,500 law librarians and other information professionals. Most members work in academic, government, or firm environments.

Julie Tedjeske Crane is a Reference Librarian and Professor of Legal Research at the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Law Library at Penn State Dickinson Law. In addition to her library-related responsibilities, Professor Crane teaches legal research in the first-year curriculum and upper-level courses.

Professor Crane has worked as an attorney for over 15 years, practicing general civil litigation. She has also been a librarian at La Roche College, the University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, and Chicago-Kent School of Law.