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Professor Karl T. Gruben joined the USD School of Law in 2009.  After completing his bachelor’s and master’s of library science degrees at the University of Texas at Austin, Professor Gruben worked as a professional law librarian at the State Law Library in Austin, Texas. In 1977 he began a long tenure as librarian, then director, then firm-wide director of libraries with the law firm of Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P., where he remained for 25 years. In 1982, Professor Gruben completed his J.D. degree at the South Texas College of Law. In 2001 he became the practice information support director for the law firm of Squire, Sanders, and Dempsey, L.L.P. and then in 2004, joined St. Thomas University Law School’s Library as law library director and associate professor of law.   

Active in library associations, Professor Gruben has served on the executive board of the Texas Library Association and the executive board of the American Association of Law Libraries. He has written and made presentations in the law and law library literature, including Parker’s Texas Business Statutes (ed. and comp.), Parker’s Texas Uniform Commercial Code (ed. and comp.), A Reference Guide to Texas Law & Legal History (co-ed.); a chapter in Law Librarianship: A Handbook for the Electronic Age; and others.

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