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Blogger of the month bios
Below is the growing list of bios for our guest bloggers, which we call BOTM (blogger of the month). Continue reading
Cindi Wolff’s bio
Cindi Wolff, our guest blogger for May, 2006, is currently serving as the head, serials services at the university of oklahoma health sciences, The Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library in oklahoma city, OK. The Bird Library is a selective housing site for the OU Norman campus which Cindi "officially" set in 1990 when she served as the government documents librarian on that campus from 1988-1993 -- when she started her new position in January, 2006, she discovered the 1990 selective housing agreeement signed by the two library directors that she had typed up! Prior to her return to oklahoma, she served as federal documents librarian [u.s. and canada!] at the university of california at berkeley, Project Manager [i.e., library director], the U.S. Department of Labor , Regional Librarian at Lousiana State University, Director of Collections at US Department of the Interior Library, and Acting Head of the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services at Northwestern University. Despite her various titles, she always served as the government information specialist at the institutions she has the pleasure of working. As she likes to point out to classes, "if you elminate pornography, I estimate that 70% of the information that you find on the Internet is government information: created by the government, from the government, or repackaged by commercial and educational entities. And every librarian is a government information librarian because you can no longer just send the user to the basement when they ask a question." Her guest blog will deal with issues concerning open access with the working title: "Open Access: It's Not Just PubMed". Continue reading
Shane Mackey’s bio
Shane Mackey, blogger of the month for April, 2006, is from Michigan and operates his own research and writing business (Legal Support Staff) and has a web design business on the side (WeOwnTheWeb). He is currently attending law school at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington, DC. Shane's interest in public records derives from investigation which requires an understanding of state and federal "sunshine" laws (e.g., FOIA, Open Meetings Act, etc.) as well as the structure of state records systems. He recently became a card carrying member of the Library of Congress and is looking forward to an exciting summer of mulling around there as well as the National Archives. His primary interests include politics with a penchant for middle eastern affairs in particular. Continue reading
Susan’s bio
Susan J. Golding, blogger-of-the-month for March, 2006, got her MSLIS from Long Island University in 2002. She has been the Government Documents and Maps Librarian at Temple University's Paley Library since September 2004. Her hobbies are obsessing, worrying and boring people with long-winded anecdotes about her job. She is thrilled to have this opportunity to expand her audience. Continue reading
Michele’s bio
Michele McGinnis, FGI guest blogger for February, 2006, works as personal librarian and researcher to author and cultural visionary Kevin Kelly. She holds an M.S.I.S. from the University of Tennessee. Her connection to government information is as the Chair of Government Relations for the San Francisco Bay Region Chapter of the Special Libraries Association. In July, 2004, she started a bi-weekly e-mail newsletter, Intersect Alert, to keep herself and her chapter informed on news and legislation at the intersection of libraries and government. She is also a volunteer for Radical Reference, providing virtual reference services for activists and independent journalists. She resides in San Francisco, California but is soon to head back to her hometown of Knoxville, TN. Continue reading
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