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Susanna Leers, BOTM for February, 2008
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I'm the E-research & Technology Services Librarian at Barco Law Library, University of Pittsburgh School of Law. I've been working here for 5 years. I got my BA at Columbia University in New York, and my MLIS and MSL (Master of Studies in Law) at the University of Pittsburgh. In my position as an academic law librarian I serve both law school patrons and public patrons who are permitted to use our library for legal research and for access to our Government Documents collection. I also purchase and manage all our law database subscriptions - whose use is usually restricted, per our license agreements, to law school faculty and students. So I am keenly aware of the government information that is freely available and the government information that is not. I would like our public patrons to be able to easily access the same government information that we can pull up so easily in licensed databases. Because, as you say so eloquently in the blog, "While governments will continue to fulfill their role of creating and disseminating information, there is another continuing essential role for preserving and organizing that information for users and providing long-term access to and service for that information."Continue reading
Welcome John Shuler, blogger of the month for January, 2008
Greetings and welcome to 2008. FGI has been a little quiet over the holidays, but we're rested and ready to go for 2008. With that in mind, our blogger-of-the-month for January is John Shuler, from the University of Illinois Chicago (see John's bio for more background). Please check back early and often as there's bound to be lots of interesting posts from John as well as the FGI volunteers. The podium is yours, John. Take it away! Continue reading
John Shuler, BOTM for January, 2008
John Shuler is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a Bibliographer for Government Information and Urban Planning/Documents Librarian Collections Development. Previously he was head of the documents department at Colgate University. Shuler has published extensively on information in electronic media and is a strong advocate of virtual reference. He worked with GPO to create our first ever formal digital partnership between the U.S. State Department the FDLP, and spearheaded library virtual reference collaboration and is working with the Government Printing Office to implement the reference project as a full partnership. Shuler is also an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate Library and Information program of Dominican University. He serves on the Public Printer's Depository Library Council, on the editorial board of Journal of Academic Librarianship, and is an assistant editor for Government Information Quarterly. He is primarily interested in blogging about the impact of digital government information and local/state governments. Continue reading
Welcome Carlos Diaz, Blogger of the Month for November, 2007
Please welcome to the BOTM podium Carlos Diaz, our blogger of the month for November, 2007. Carlos provides a convenient psychic bookend to Barrett Jones -- our Oct BOTM -- in that he hails from the other Washington, Washington State. Welcome Carlos! We'd like to thank Barrett Jones, our BOTM for October. I wish we could offer him a salary to continue working for FGI as you no doubt saw the bad news about his leaving IMF. Any grant writers out there want to write one to push FGI into the 501(c)3 arena?! Please be sure to look back through Barrett's posts last month. There was quite a bit of interest, not least of which was the thread about the World Library -- which has become our most emailed post!! Here's our version of a Feschrift for Barrett:
- Read Your Own DHS Travel Dossier
- Conversations, Not Memos
- Do We Need A World Library?
- Mind the Gap with Gapminder
- iSimulate - collaborative economic modeling
- Mapping Human Rights
- The IMF Starts Blogging
Carlos Diaz, BOTM for November, 2007
Carlos A. Diaz is the Head of Government Documents/Maps at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. His interest in government documents is due to his lifelong interest in history, geography, and travel. Concerning his love for history, Carlos stated, "I have always wondered why people did what they did...what led them to make the decisions they made. I always found it fascinating." His love and curiosity for other countries led to a love for stamp collecting and maps. "I don't think I've met anyone who didn't like maps. Most of the patrons I help are just drawn to the collection...they are fascinated by it all." Carlos has been at Evergreen since 1999 and is enjoying every minute of it.
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