5 State Documents Meeting

Presenters'Biographies

      Gil Baldwin is the Director of the Library Programs Service (LPS), U.S. Government Printing Office.  LPS' mission includes administering the Federal Depository Library Program, the Cataloging and Indexing Program, and the distribution component of the International Exchange System Program for the Library of Congress.  Mr. Baldwin began his career with GPO in 1973, and since then has held a variety of staff and management positions involving the Federal Depository Program.  He has a B.A. in history from College of William and Mary (1971), and the M.L.S. from Florida State University (1973), and pursued additional postgraduate work in Library and Information Science at Catholic University of America (1975).

    Kathie Brinkerhoff is the U.S. Business and Documents Librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno.  Prior to coming to Reno, she was the Business Librarian at the University of Oregon in Eugene.  She received a B.S. in Business management in 1985, and an MLIS from FYU in 1991, where she was inducted into Beta Phi Mu, the Library Science Honor Society.  When not in the library, she can generally be found in the garden.

    Tim Byrne is the Head of the Government Publications Library at University of Colorado, Boulder, which has one of the largest technical report collections in the country.  Previously he was Government Documents Librarian/Assistant Reference Librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University.  He holds a B.A. in history from University of Virginia (1972) and an M.S.L.S. (1974) from University of Kentucky.  Currently Treasurer of the ALA Government Documents Roundtable, over the years he has held far too many GODORT offices.  He is also the current editor of the "GPO PURL Alert."

  Laurie Canepa has been the Regional Librarian at the New Mexico State Library for the last ten years.  She will be leading a discussion on moving documents collections, and can be identified by the crazed look in her eyes which is the direct result of her involvement in space planning and moving over one million documents to a new facility several years ago.  Laurie has worked in federal depository libraries and law libraries since 1976 in Portland, Oregon and Salt Lake City, Utah, prior to her return to her home state of New Mexico.

    Terri Cleeland is a Public Services Manager for the Kaibab National Forest in Williams, Arizona.  She received a BA in anthropology from University of Arizona and an MA in anthropology from Northern Arizona University.  Her work as an archeologist and historian led her to become a "roads scholar" specializing in Route 66.

    Ann Eagan is the Head of Reference at the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University.  Previously, she was employed at the University of Nevada, Reno as the Physical Sciences Librarian.  She received an M.L.S. from University of Arizona in 1990, and a B.S. in Physics from Northern Arizona University in 1980.

    Dexter R. Evans is a graduate of the University of North Texas Library School.  He was employed for two years at Texas A&M University as a science librarian before becoming a library vendor.  He is currently a consortium sales representative with Congressional Information Service (CIS), challenged with providing library training and maintaining consortium structure in one of the largest nationwide vendor/consortium contracts for electronic products.

    Sean Evans has been the Documents Specialist in the Reference Department at the Cline Library during the past 10 years.  He has a MA in History from NAU and a MA in Information Resources and Library Science from University of Arizona (2000).

     Janet Fisher is the Director of the Research Library of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, which  is a legislative agency and one of only two such state libraries in the United States.  The Research Library houses the regional depository collection of federal documents, the largest collection of Arizona state agency publications, a map collection representing federal depository and historic Arizona maps, and a genealogy collection.  Janet has been in charge of federal and state agency publication collections in Texas and Arizona for the past 17 years.  Since 1985, she has supervised the federal and state documents collections at the Arizona State Library.  She has served on and chaired the Depository Library Council to the U.S. Public Printer.  Janet holds an MLS degree from the University of Illinois and a Masters in Public Administration, with emphasis in Public Information Management, from Arizona State University.

    Kenneth Furuta is the Electronic Resources Librarian for the Government Documents and Maps Department at the Arizona State University Libraries.  He received an MLS from University of Arizona in 1989.

    Pat Headlee is the Head of the Electronic Products and Serials Unit at the Cline Library, NAU, which is responsible for the receiving and physically processing of government document materials.  She was previously employed at Arizona State University's College of Law Library.  She has received an MA in Information Resources/Library Science from University of Arizona in 1999, and a BS in Elementary Education from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1981.

    Margaret Landesman is the Head of Collection Development at Marriott Library, University of Utah.  She is co-chair of the Utah Academic Library Consortium's Collection Development Committee; serves on the Steering Committee for Pioneer, Utah's Online Library; and is a member of the Big 12 Plus' Collection Development Committee and BTP's Electronic Resources Group.  Ms. Landesman received the Utah Library Association's Librarian of the Year award in 1996.  With Johann van Reenen at UNM, she recently co-authored a paper titled "Creating Congruence between Consortial Development and Emerging Initiatives in Scholarly Publishing" which will appear in the Journal of Electronic Publishing.

    Daniel Lee is Head of Circulation and Access Services Division at the Marriott Library, University of Utah.  He currently serves on the American Library Association's Office of Information Technology Policy Copyright Advisory Committee.

    Shelley Leichter received her M.S.L.S. from Floriday State University in 1982 and has been been employed at the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, since 1987.  She had been on that agency's Digital Imaging Task Force since 1998.  In 1999 she attended an OCLC Institute on "Knowledge Access Management" where things she had been hearing about on the Task Force suddenly clicked into place.

    Carole McEwan has cataloged serials at Northern Arizona University since 1994, including U.S. and Arizona documents since 1996.  After finishing her graduate library work at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1978, she was appointed to run the library serving the Victorian (State) Dept. of the Premier, Treasury, and Public Service Board.  After that first sudden immersion into Australian "gov pubs", documents of any sort cannot intimidate her.

   Jeff Malcomson is an archivist at the Arizona History and Archives Division (Arizona State Archives) of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.  He holds a bachelor's degree in history (1996) from Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, GA, and a master of arts degree in history with an emphasis in public history (1998) from Colorado State University.  Prior to joining the staff of the Arizona State Archives in 1998 he worked for the Western History/Genealogy Department of the Denver Public Library as a project archivist working with city parks historical documents.  His professional interests include exploring and implementing digital applications for archives and researching environmental history.  He serves on the Digital Planning Task Force of the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records and is currently responsible for the Capitol Centennial Digitization Project.

    Jerry O'Donnell is the chief public information officer for the Denver Region of the U.S. Census Bureau.  He has over 31 years of service with the Census Bureau, and is responsible for providing information services and training programs in the ten state region comprising the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains States.  He has authored a number of census publications and has published many articles on the use of census data.  Mr. O'Donnell is a graduate of Utah State University in psychology and demography, a recipient of the U.S. Department of Commerce's highest award (the Bronze Medal), and is a marathon runner who has completed 46 marathons worldwide including the 100th Boston Marathon.

    Aimee Piscitelli Quinn is the Federal/State Documents Librarian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  She has been working in documents and is the senior moderator of GOVDOC-L.  Over the years she has developed several web pages and was one of the early beta testers of both the Federal Bulletin Board and the original GPO Access pages.

    Atifa Rawan is a full librarian with the Social Sciences Team at the University of Arizona Library, and the Chair of the Library Information Resources Council.  She has had various government documents responsibilities at UofA since 1985, and previously was the Head of the Government Documents and Maps section at the Arizona State Library.  She has a BA in political science from University of Hawaii, and her MLS from the University of South Carolina, plus an MA in anthropology from NYU and two years of law school.  She has also taken classes in government and politics at the University of Vermont.

    Linda Risseeuw has 18 years of experience as a government documents librarian in public libraries.  She is currently the government documents coordinator in the Phoenix Public Libraries.  She has presented programs for government documents librarians, non-documents library staff, and teachers. Ms. Risseuw holds a BA in history and a MA in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

    Charles A. Seavey is Associate Professor, School of Library Science, University of Arizona, and former Acting Director of the School of Library Science.  His teaching areas include research methods, foundations of librarianship, collection development, cartographic information management, government information, and public libraries.  He holds a B.A. in history from University of Massachusetts (1967), M.S.L.S. from University of Kentucky (1974), and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies (History Minor) from University of Wisconsin, Madison (1987).  From 1967 to 1973, Dr. Seavey served as an officer in the United States Air Force, and was discharged with the rank of Captain.

    Karen J. Underhill is the Head of Special Collections and Archives at the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University.  She holds a bachelor's degree in history (1982) from NAU, as well as two master of arts degrees from the University of Arizona--one in history (1990) and one in library science (1997).   Ms. Underhill worked for the Arizona Historical Society in Tucson and the San Diego Historical Society before joining the Cline Library staff in 1990.  Her professional interests include digital applications for archives, oral history, and Native American archives. The NAU Cline Library developed the prototype for the imaging database--recognized by the Berkeley Sunsite--in 1995.

    Linda Zellmer is Maps Librarian at Arizona State University.  Prior to coming to Arizona, she was Geology and Maps Librarian at the University of Wyoming, where she took a full year of formal coursework relating to Geographic Information Systems (GIS).  She regularly uses GIS in the ASU Libraries Map Collection, and has collected a variety of spatial data related to Arizona and Maricopa County.  Samples of the maps she has made with this data can be viewed at: http:www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/maps/gismaps.htm