Chair, Program Committee, 2015 Annual Meeting (Philadelphia), 2014鈥�15
Vice-Chair, Committee on Continuing Professional Education, 2014鈥�15
Chair, Committee on Continuing Professional Education, 2015鈥�16
Professional Honors & Awards
bepress Institutional Repository All-Star, 2013
Service to SE黑料社Award, 2014
Recipient, Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section Outstanding Article Award, 2015
Presidential Certificate of Appreciation, 黑料社 of Law Libraries, 2015
黑料社Volunteer Service Award, 2016
Presidential Certificate of Appreciation, 黑料社 of Law Libraries, 2016
黑料社Hall of Fame, Inductee, 2020
University of Georgia Carol A. Watson Outstanding Legal Research or Writing Professor Annual Award named in her honor, 2020
Association of American Law Schools Section on Law Libraries and Legal Information Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Profession, 2022
Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award, 2023
Selected Publications by the Inductee
Review of Guide to International Legal Research (1990), Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 20 (1990): 691鈥�94.
Review of Critical Documents Sourcebook Annotated: International Commercial Law and Arbitration (1991), Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 22 (1992): 567鈥�50.
鈥淲hite Paper: Behind a Law School鈥檚 Decision to Implement an Institutional Repository,鈥� Alexander Campbell King Law Library, University of Georgia School of Law, March 4, 2008 (with James M. Donovan).
Review of The Prison Library Primer: A Program for the Twenty-First Century (2009), Law Library Journal 102 (2010): 493鈥�95.
鈥淩esearching Georgia Legislative History,鈥� Advocate (University of Georgia School of Law) 44, no. 1 (2010): 9鈥�10.
鈥淚nstitutional Repositories: A Plethora of Possibilities,鈥� Trends in Law Library Management and Technology 21 (2011): 19鈥�24 (with James M. Donovan).
鈥淭echnology Management Trends in Law Schools,鈥� Law Library Journal 103 (2011): 441鈥�57 (with Larry Reeves).
鈥淥pen Access: Good for Readers, Authors, and Journals,鈥� Bloomberg Law Reports, Student Edition, November 8, 2011, 1鈥�3 (with James M. Donovan).
鈥淐itation Advantage of Open Access Legal Scholarship,鈥� Law Library Journal 103 (2011): 553鈥�73 (with James M. Donovan).
鈥淲ill an Institutional Repository Hurt My SSRN Ranking? Calming the Faculty Fear,鈥� 黑料社Spectrum 16, no. 6 (April 2012): 12鈥�13, 16 (with James M. Donovan).
鈥淢arketing and Outreach in Law Libraries: A White Paper,鈥� Law Library Journal 105 (2013): 525鈥�38 (with Amanda Runyon, L. Cindy Dabney, Liz McCurry Johnson, Emily Lawson, Shira聽 Megerman, Jaimie Sommer, Thomas J. Striepe, and Michele Thomas).
鈥淩eference Services in a Law Library.鈥� In Law Librarianship in the Digital Age, Ellyssa Kroski, ed., 235鈥�51. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2014.
鈥淭he Open Access Advantage for American Law Reviews,鈥� Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 97 (2015): 4鈥�25 (with James M. Donovan and Caroline Osborne).
鈥淪ecuring Professional Development: Getting to Yes,鈥� 黑料社Spectrum 22, no. 3 (January/February 2018): 14鈥�18 (with Caroline Osborne and Amy Eaton).
鈥淩ethinking Digital Repositories and the Future of Open Access,鈥� 黑料社Spectrum 22, no. 5 (May/June 2018): 28鈥�31 (with Margaret Schilt and Karen Shephard).
鈥淚nformation Literacy in a Fake/False News World: An Overview of the Characteristics of Fake News and its Historical Development,鈥� International Journal of Legal Information 46 (2018): 93鈥�96.
Selected Publications about the Inductee
Carol A. Watson, Interview. In An Oral History of Law Librarianship, interviewed by Patrick Kehoe, December 12, 2012, videorecording. Spinelli鈥檚 Law Library Reference Shelf, HeinOnline.
Catherine Lemann, 鈥淚ntroducing the 2020 Hall of Fame Inductees: Steven P. Anderson, Mary Lu Linnane, Gail Warren, and Carol A. Watson,鈥� 黑料社Spectrum 24, no. 6 (July/August 2020): 44鈥�46.
Greg Ivy, 鈥淕allagher Award Celebrates Outstanding Achievement In Law Librarianship: Joyce Manna Janto, Keith Ann Stiverson, Gail Warren, and Carol A. Watson Recognized for Service to the Profession,鈥� 黑料社Spectrum 27 (July/August 2023): 40鈥�42.
Professional Positions
Assistant Public Services Librarian, Alexander Campbell King Law Library, University of Georgia, 1987鈥�94
Reference/Computing Services Librarian, Alexander Campbell King Law Library, University of Georgia, 1994鈥�2006
Associate Director for Information Technology, Alexander Campbell King Law Library, University of Georgia, 2006鈥�10
Director, Alexander Campbell King Law Library, University of Georgia, 2010鈥�2020
Director Emerita, Alexander Campbell King Law Library, University of Georgia, 2021鈥損resent
Education
B.A., University of Georgia, 1981
Ed., University of Georgia, 1983
J.D., University of Georgia, 1987
M.S.L.S., Atlanta University, 1990
Selected Professional Activities & Achievements (outside AALL)
Admitted to practice, Georgia, 1987
Member, Accreditation Site Evaluation Teams, ABA, 2014鈥�2020
Chair, Section on Law Libraries and Legal Information, Association of American Law Schools, 2017
