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Welcome Frank Lester, BOTM for April, 2008
On the blogger-of-the-month (BOTM) tap this month for your viewing/reading pleasure will be Frank Lester. Frank works at UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies Library -- read more about Frank on his FGI bio page. Boy, have we been on a run with our BOTM's or what? Huge thanks to Rebecca Blakeley, our BOTM for March, 2008. Rebecca posted a ton of interesting stories, commented on hers and others' posts and constantly beat me to the punch on tracking key stories. Below are just some of her posts over the month. Thanks again Rebecca. We hope you continue to feed us interesting stories in the future! Continue reading
Frank Lester, blogger of the month for April, 2008
Frank Lester is Electronic Services Librarian at the Institute of Governmental Studies Library at the University of California at Berkeley, a collection specializing in non-trade materials, ephemera, serials, and mongraphs relating to California and federal politics, public policy, and public administration. He is also the Institute of Governmental Studies webmaster and is on a rotating 2-year assignment as the webmaster of the Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC), ending in the fall of 2008. Previous to IGS, he was an assistant government documents librarian at the University of Michigan, staff assistant at the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan, and a reference administrator at the Internet Public Library. Prior to his career as a librarian, Lester was a member of the campaign finance staff at the San Francisco Ethics Commission for three years. Lester has published in the Journal of Electronic Publishing and is the main contributor to the California Policy Inbox, a regularly updated blog highlighting recently-published California government agency and non-profit organization public policy documents and current California public policy news developments. Lester's main interests are national, state, and local politics, the role of developing technologies in increasing public access to and interest in government documents, and the intersection between the digital and the traditional library realms. Continue reading
Welcome Rebecca Blakeley, blogger of the month for March, 2008
Welcome to the podium Rebecca Blakeley, head of the Government Documents Department at the McNeese State University Library. Take it away Rebecca! And many thanks to our BOTM for February, Susanna Leers. Susanna was one of our most prolific bloggers with 40(!) posts for the short leep month! To see all of Susanna's stories, go to her blog. Below are Susanna's latest 10 posts (which I generated from her RSS feed with the handy rss2js feed converter). 3 Cheers for Susanna!! Continue reading
Rebecca Blakeley: blogger of the month for March, 2007
Rebecca Blakeley is head of the Government Documents Department at the McNeese State University Library in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She was selected to be a 2008 American Library Association Emerging Leader. 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. Feel free to visit her department's blog, Gov Docs on the Bayou. Continue reading
Welcome Susanna Leers, blogger of the month for February, 2008
Next up on the BOTM podium for the month of February is Susanna Leers. Susanna is the E-research & Technology Services Librarian at Barco Law Library, University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Take it away Susanna. Many thanks also to John Shuler, especially for starting the conversation about government documents instruction. If you haven't had a chance, please read that thread and weigh in on the conversation. Here are the threads of John's month as BOTM:
- Global Village or Global slums?
- What to teach to future government information librarians: Escape from the Blackboard Jungle
- Back to the future: Jefferson's 1815 Library records and Preservation of 21st Century State Digital Information
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