Daniel Cornwall was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He lived in California, Texas and Florida before moving to Juneau, Alaska in 1998. Daniel graduated with a Masters of Library and Information Science from UT Austin. He works for the Alaska State Library, which is not associated in any way whatsoever with Free Government Information. Daniel was recently promoted to Head of Information Services, the section of the library responsible for the Alaska State Publications Program, Alaska's state documents depository system. Many of the issues facing the Federal Depository Library system have their echoes in Alaska, except for a centralized solution for electronic document preservation. Daniel's resume is available on his personal web site. In addition to his role at Free Government Information, Daniel maintains a personal blog and is a sometime contributor at LISNews. He can also be found on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and other web 2.0 spaces.

To learn about how Daniel became a librarian in the first place, visit http://alaskanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/how-and-why-i-became-a-..., a blog post he did for the Library Routes Project.