Carol A. Watson has served as director of the UGA Law Library since 2010. She is responsible for the vision, leadership and management of all aspects of the law library including strategic planning, budgeting, collection development, technology and personnel. She has written extensively and presented frequently on the topic of institutional repositories. She received the 2015 AALL Academic Libraries SIS Outstanding Article Award, along with James M. Donovan & Caroline Osborne, for the article The Open Access Advantage for American Law Reviews, Edison 2015-03A. In 2013, she was named a bepress Institutional Repository All-Star. In 2015, she was a member of the steering committee which organized the Law Repositories 2015: Shaping the Future conference.