Heather Briston

Heather Briston is Head of Public Services for UCLA Library Special Collections. In addition, she is also the current chair of SAA Council's Working Group on Intellectual Property. She received her M.S. Information with a specialization in Archives and Records Management from the University of Michigan. She also holds a J.D. from Syracuse University, where she focused on intellectual property law. She was Corrigan Solari University Historian and Archivist at the University of Oregon from 2001-2011, and has worked as an archivist at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. She has taught credit courses in research and writing using primary sources, and collaborates extensively with faculty using primary sources in their instruction. Her professional research explores legal issues and archives, as well as the use of primary source materials in teaching.