Ms. Sinder joined the staff of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library as Associate Director for Research Services in July 2004. In addition to managing the Research Services department she teaches Introduction to Legal Research and Advanced Legal Research. Her research interests are in legal history and legal research in other common-law countries; she has published an article on research sources for Irish Legal History and edited a collection of articles by law librarians who worked overseas.

Ms. Sinder is active in the American Association of Law Libraries, serving on a number of committees as well as editing the Membership News column of the Association’s newsletter. In 2007 she was named the Editor of Law Library Journal, the official journal of the Association.

Before coming to the University of Maryland, Ms. Sinder spent a number of years at the Duke University Law Library, where she began as a Reference Librarian, and later served as the Head of Information Services and as the Web Site Manager for the law school’s web site. After leaving Duke she spent three years in Dublin, Ireland, at the GSM Association, an international trade association for mobile phone operators. There she worked on interface design and information architecture for the members’ web site. Before becoming a law librarian, Ms. Sinder began her career at the Office of the State Appellate Defender in Springfield, Illinois.