Rick Goheen Director of the Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law Phone: (419) 530-2945 E-Mail:  rick.goheen@utoledo.edu

Rick Goheen received his B.A. in political science from the University of Toledo in 1991. He was a member of the University of Cincinnati Law Review, and received his J.D. from UC in 1994. He completed his master's degree in library science at the University of Kentucky in 1998.

After a year of private practice, Prof. Goheen returned to the University of Cincinnati and joined the UC law library reference staff where he served as Head of Information Access and then as Head of Reference. While at UC, Prof. Goheen had overall responsibility for reference, circulation, interlibrary loan and media services, and was also the primary selector of new bibliographic materials for the library. From 2001 to 2007, Prof. Goheen was the founding Associate Director for Public Services at the University of St. Thomas’ Schoenecker Law Library in Minnesota, where he taught Advanced Legal Research and the research portions of Lawyering Skills I and II.

Prof. Goheen was moderator for a program on "Competencies in Law Librarianship" at the American Association of Law Libraries' annual meeting and conference in summer 2000, and presented the electronic resources portion of an AALL workshop on legislative history in summer 2001. He taught the legislative history unit of the Minnesota Association of Law Libraries’ Legal Research Institute in both 2003 and 2005. Prof. Goheen was a member of AALL’s Access to Electronic Legal Information Committee from 2004 to 2006, and served as the Minnesota state editor for an AALL publication on permanent public access to government information. In 2006, he wrote the Indiana, Michigan and South Dakota sections of an AALL survey publication on online authentication of state government information.