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Brian Williams: BOTM for March, 2009
Brian Williams, research librarian for US Government, Criminology and Law & Society at UC Irvine (and blogs at justcrim.typepad.com) in his own words:
I’ve been using government information – local, regional, state, federal, tribal, foreign, international – throughout the course of my professional career. Whether working as Foreign/International Legal Research Specialist at the University of San Diego or as law librarian at a legal services office on the Navajo Nation, government information has played a significant role in my work.
I believe unfettered access to government information is an important measure of democracy.
“[G]overnment information needs to be free” — We live in amazing times: I’m extraordinarily optimistic about the explosion of government information in digital formats and I’m terribly excited by preservation and access challenges in this fluid world we live in.
Shari Laster: BOTM for February, 2009 and July, 2010
Shari Laster is the government documents/reference librarian for University Libraries at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. She earned her MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her interest in the world of government information was sparked by her work as a student assistant at what is now the Kelley Center for Government Information at Rice University, where she discovered that governments produce nifty, pervasive, and useful information. Other professional interests include metadata, intellectual property law, and good design.
[update July, 2010: besides all of those other things listed above, Shari has just been named to Depository Library Council for a 3 year term (2010 – 2013)!]
Rikhei Harris: blogger of the month for November, 2008
When Laura “Rikhei” Harris received her M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan in 2004, she had no idea that one day she would be the Government Documents Librarian at Grand Valley State University. Since taking on this role, Laura has become increasingly interested in the statistical information produced and provided by government agencies, and is now considering pursuing a degree in statistics. Her other academic interests include usability and using emerging technologies to improve library workflow and library services. She also blogs at Llyfrgellydd.
Rebecca Troy-Horton
Rebecca Troy-Horton (f/k/a Rebecca Blakeley) is a Reference Librarian at the New Hampshire State Library. She was head of the Government Information Department at the McNeese State University Library in Lake Charles, Louisiana from 2007-2011. She was selected to be a 2008 American Library Association Emerging Leader and a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2009.
Prior to McNeese, Rebecca worked in the Reference and Government Publications departments at the University of Rhode Island and also taught courses on Information Literacy. She received her M.L.I.S. in 2005 and her B.A. in Anthropology in 2003, both from the University of Rhode Island. Rebecca fell in love with Government Documents when she took an online course with Daniel O’Mahony, whose passion for “Documents to the People” inspired her to become a documents librarian. Rebecca is a techie wannabee and is neither Gen X nor Gen Y but somewhere in between.
James Turk: BOTM for October, 2008
James Turk is a Web Developer for Sunlight Labs. The focus of his work is web application development, including distributed research projects such as EarmarkWatch.org, he also maintains the Sunlight Labs API (http://services.sunlightlabs.com/api/). He earned his Bachelor of Science in computer science from the Rochester Institute of Technology where he also studied Political Science and Public Policy. Before joining the Sunlight Labs, he also spent time working at Project Vote Smart. He spends a good part of his time, both at work and elsewhere hacking away at government data of all types.
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