Jan Fleckenstein G’84, G’86, L’11

Teaching Professor Director of the Law Library (315) 443-9571 jflecken@syr.edu Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Jan Fleckenstein is Director of the Law Library and Teaching Professor at the Syracuse University College of Law where she has served as a member of the faculty since 2017, and where she was previously Associate Director & Head of Library Information Systems. As a law librarian at Syracuse University since 1987, she has worked in circulation, interlibrary loan/document delivery, reference, technical services (acquisitions, cataloging and serials), academic computing, and library administration. Her research interests include library planning and design, and curating business information to support the law school curriculum. She earned her B.A. from Le Moyne College and her M.L.S., M.S./IRM, and J.D. degrees from Syracuse University.

Professor Fleckenstein is active in library associations and library education. She is past president of the Association of Law Libraries of Upstate New York and past president of the Pi Lambda Sigma chapter of Beta Phi Mu at Syracuse University.  She is a recipient of the Katie M. Deveau Spirit of ALLUNY Award for service to the law library community.  She teaches Advanced Legal Research and previously taught the Legal Information course at SU’s iSchool.  Over the years she has served as a consultant on library facilities projects and has presented programs on integration of information technology into the infrastructure of the library, and on major and minor library renovation projects, at AALL, CALL/ACBD, ABA’s Bricks & Bytes, and ALLUNY.  She started her career as a law firm librarian at O’Hara & Crough in Syracuse, NY.