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Welcome Brian Williams, guest blogger for March, 2009
March 1 means that spring is coming(!) and there's a new guest blogger over here at FGI. So let's welcome Brian Williams, research librarian for US Government, Criminology and Law & Society at UC Irvine (and a blogger in his own rights at justcrim.typepad.com). Take it away Brian! We'd also like to thank Shari Laster for being our guest in February. Shari's posts (below) were thoughtful and thorough. Thanks Shari!! As always, if you'd like to help us out and be a guest blogger, email us at admin AT freegovinfo DOT info and include your interests, and a writing sample. Thanks! Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Guest blogger for February is … Shari Laster!
Let's welcome Shari Laster to the podium for the month of February! Shari's a govt documents/reference librarian at the University of Akron (Here's Shari's full bio). With the shift to a new administration and so much buzz about government transparency, we're sure that Shari will start some interesting conversations. And while we have your attention, we want to thank Chella Vaidyanathan for her work for the month of January. Below are the threads that she wove into our FGI fabric. Thanks again Chella! Continue reading
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)!] Continue reading
Welcome Chella Vaidyanathan, blogger of the month for January 2009
Happy 2009 gentle readers! We're back to work and hoping to make FGI even better in 2009. Chella Vaidyanathan (full bio) from University of Miami is our guest blogger for January 2009. Take it away Chella! Continue reading
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