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Duane McCollum, Blogger of the month for December, 2006
Duane McCollum has had his own blog, the Information Auditor, for about two years now. He started it just as he was finishing his program in Master of Science of Information Management from the University of Washington's i-School (2004). He recently became a Gov Docs geek after going back to school (part time) and taking a grad course in Gov Docs at the Univ of Wash earlier this year.
It was an important course to me as it really opened up a whole new world of government info --and changed the way I think about myself as a citizen.Duane works full-time at a large, US based defense contracting company as a "Systems Engineer" on a defense program; but, what he actually does is policy analysis of DoD Info Technology policies, directives, and architectures and how they effect the program he's working on. He's very interested in information auditing, knowledge management, and IT governance. Continue reading
Lori Smith, BOTM for November, 2006
Lori is a Hoosier by birth. She has a B.S. in Finance from Ball State University and an M.L.S. from Indiana University. While at IU, Lori took the Government Documents course taught by Lou Malcomb. One of the things Lou told the class was that people who work with documents tend to become very enthusiastic and feel compelled to "spread the documents gospel." Lori has found this to be true. After obtaining her M.L.S. in 1987, Lori accepted a position as the State Documents Specialist at the St. Louis Public Library. In 1991, Lori moved to Louisiana and became the Government Documents Department Head at Southeastern Louisiana University's Sims Memorial Library. She continued her involvement with state documents and served many terms as chair of the Louisiana Advisory Council for the State Documents Depository Program. Her curiosity about how other states were handling government publications led her to recruit Lou Malcomb and three other people to co-author a book with her on the topic. Tapping State Government Information Sources was published by Greenwood Press in 2003. As she nears her 20th year of working with state and federal documents, Lori continues to feel compelled to spread the documents gospel. Continue reading
Tim Skeers, BOTM for October, 2006
Tim Skeers from the New Mexico State Library is out blogger of the month for October, 2006. Here's his bio in his own words: My interest in government publications was first sparked as an undergrad at Drake University when I took a research writing class. The professor had a more-than-average interest in them as research materials herself, and she made sure to include several exercises using Drake's depository materials. That meant I was already interested and had some exposure when I was investigating financial aid for library school at the University of Illinois and interviewed for (and got) an assistantship in the Government Documents Department there. Librarians seem either to hate government publications or love 'em, and I found myself hooked into the latter group. I returned to Drake after library school as the serials librarian, but kept looking for documents positions. I was in the documents department at Northern Illinois for a while where I also got an M.S. in geography, followed by an odd sort of interregnum in my library career while I worked briefly at the Iowa Emergency Management Division in a GIS position and later as photo librarian and a writer for a gardening magazine. After a time at UNLV working with state and local gov pubs, I came here to the New Mexico State Library. My focus here is on cataloging the New Mexico state agency publications for our state depository program and federal publications from regional offices that don't make it into the FDLP but which are important to our community. Like everyone else, I'm concerned about how born-digital material will be disseminated and preserved. Fortunately, we have the OCLC Digital Archive that we're using to do that -- talking a little about this will probably be on of my first guest blogs. Continue reading
Peggy Garvin, Blogger-of-the-month for August, 2006 and September, 2009
Peggy Garvin is BOTM for August, 2006 and has returned for another round for September, 2009. Peggy is an independent information professional (aka librarian) based in Washington, DC. Her firm, Garvin Information Consulting, provides writing, training, and consulting on finding U.S. government information, web and database searching, and evaluating information products. Her 25-year career in DC -- both in the private sector and at the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service -- has focused on public policy information and electronic information products. She was chair of the Special Libraries Association Government Information Division in 2006-07. She is chief blogger for the SLA Government Information Division blog. Peggy has been a fan of the FGI site since its inception and is honored to be August BOTM. (Editor's note: Peggy's bio was updated on September 1, 2009) Continue reading
Jessamyn West, BOTM for June, 2006
Jessamyn West is librarian.net. She's a writer, speaker, agitator for all things library (well, maybe not ALL things!). You may have seen her "five technically legal signs for your library" that she created when the USA PATRIOT Act first came out. As she says on her about page:
I love libraries because I believe they are a true manifestation of the public sphere in the US. They are a place where people can read what they want, be who they are, and inform themselves about what interests them. I like to help people do that. I am also fiercely protective of losing what is special about libraries, and much of my work concerns this preservation issue in its many facets. I am a user-oriented librarian when I’m working at a library, and a library activist when I am not. My passion presently is mucking about in the intersection of libraries, technology and politics and describing what I find there.Continue reading
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