Cooper works as a Cataloger, Reference Librarian, and Genealogical Resources Specialist at the University of Virginia Library. She is the author of A Guide to Historic Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia (History Press, 2007), Index to Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations. 2nd ed. (McFarland Publishing, 2009), and most recently, Index of Students of the University of Virginia, 1825-1874 (Shortwood Press, 2011). She maintains a blog offering short biographies of individual students indexed in this work – http://uvastudents.wordpress.com She received the Virginia Genealogical Society’s Virginia Records Award in 2009 for her work in indexing the Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations microfilm collection. Ms. Cooper has a B.A. from Alma College, Alma, MI, and an M.L. from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.