Paul Lomio, a specialist in legal research and the development of digital reserves, was appointed director of the Robert Crown Law Library. Lomio, who joined the law school staff as a reference librarian in 1982, served as acting director for the 2004–05 academic year following the retirement of Lance E. Dickson, professor of law, emeritus, and former director of the library.

Along with overseeing the library’s collection of 500,000 books and 8,000 periodicals, Lomio will spearhead moves to make the library’s holdings “the best collection of online material of any law library in the world,” he said.

Lomio has been instrumental in the launch of many of the law library’s online resources. He played a key role in developing the Stanford Securities Class Action Cleaning house, and the Women’s Legal History Biography Project.

Lomio earned a bachelor’s degree from St. Bonaventure University, a law degree from Gonzaga University, and a master’s degree in law from the University of Washington School of Law. He went on to earn a master’s degree in library science from the School of Library and Information Science at Catholic University of America