Depository Library Council

She brings nearly 35 years’ experience as an academic research librarian. Previous work as depository coordinator at many universities including CWU provide her the richness, diversity of resources, and uniqueness in each depository collection. No two depositories are alike despite each having large Federal and state historical collections, which led her to call for permanent public access to Government information in all forms and formats throughout her career. She held numerous positions in GODORT include as serving on the Notable Documents Panel and as GODORT Chair. She currently Chairs the ALA Government Information Subcommittee. Author of over 50 articles, book chapters, and reports, her current research is on the demise of Government information under the 45th Presidential Administration and an examination in the changes of depository structure within the Federal Depository Library Program and its potential impact upon permanent public access to Government information. She is the longest owner and moderator of GOVDOC-L, a national discussion forum for Government information.

He holds appointments as Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Rinn Law Library. He also supervises the College of Law's technology support team. Prior to his current position, Mr. Moye was the Associate Director for Public Services, at George Mason School of Law, in Arlington, VA. In his primary role as Director of DePaul’s Law Library, Mr. Moye is responsible for the financial management and quality of library services and research support, offered to faculty, students, alumni, and public patrons of the law library. He coordinates with the legal writing faculty to provide legal research instruction to law students and teaches Advanced Legal Research in the JD program. He also teaches Introduction to American Law and Legal Systems in the Masters-in-Jurisprudence program. With close to 25 years of experience working in libraries, Mr. Moye closely follows emerging trends, innovations, and new technologies. As an experienced legal research instructor, he is particularly interested in working with the DLC to address complex issues related to public access to digital Government information, including the durability of permanent URLs (PURLs). With a significant amount of legal and Government information now being produced in a digital-only format, Mr. Moye believes that it is imperative that a persistent, reliable, and platform-agnostic standard be established for PURLs. Mr. Moye earned his undergraduate degree from Howard University, his JD from University of Richmond, and his MLIS from Catholic University. He is an active member of a number of professional library associations, including the American Library Association, American Association of Law Libraries, Chicago Association of Law Libraries, Mid-America Association of Law Libraries, and is a past president of the Mid-America Law Library Consortium.

At USU, she coordinates the Government Information Program, part of Special Collections & Archives, and connects Government documents to users across the disciplines. As the Regional Coordinator for Utah and Nevada, she works with 15 selective depositories to provide public access to Government information. She serves as the Metrics Working Group Coordinator for the Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) and promotes Government information through the Utah Library Association’s Government Documents Roundtable (ULA GODORT). Kirk received both her Master of Library and Information Science and her Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests focus on practical applications of Government information librarianship, distribution of Government agency publications, and presidential libraries.

He has worked in law libraries for nearly 40 years, seven in law firm libraries. His experience at law firm libraries is largely responsible for his deep appreciation for the work of the GPO in publishing vital primary law resources in a timely and useful fashion. Professor Leiter teaches Advanced Legal Research and has written widely on law librarianship and legal bibliography. His book, National Survey of State Laws, now in its 8th edition is published both in print and online as a searchable database. When originally published in 1993, it was selected by the NY Public Library as one of the year’s best reference resources. Professor Leiter is active in local, regional, and national law library organizations, and served as chair of the Government Relations Committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. He also has served for many years as a judge for state and national competitions of We The People, a nationwide competition of high school students that involves debate on aspects of the United States Constitution. Prof. Leiter earned his BA from the University of California Santa Cruz, his Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Texas, and his JD from Southwestern School of Law.

Valerie Glenn is the Business and Public Affairs Collections Librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she has a leadership role in developing, assessing, managing, and promoting collections in all formats. Valerie has more than 20 years of experience connecting users with Government information and managing collections in depository libraries of varying sizes, including at VCU, which is an ASERL Center of Excellence for the Department of Homeland Security. She is active in the American Library Association and is currently a member of the HathiTrust Federal Documents Advisory Committee.

At the University of Kentucky, Laub serves as head of the Federal Depository Unit, which manages all aspects of the Federal Depository Collection, and supervises the manager of the Gwen Curtis Map Collection. As the Regional Coordinator for Kentucky, she works with 18 selective depositories to provide access to Government information and provides support in weeding their collections. Laub is active in the Kentucky Library Association Government Documents Roundtable, ALA Government Documents Roundtable and serves on ASERL’s Collaborative Federal Depository Program Oversight Committee.

Johnson is the Head of Government Documents & Microforms at Louisiana State University and currently serves as one of two regional coordinators for Louisiana. Johnson is an active member of the American Library Association’s Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) and has served on several GODORT committees most recently as the coordinator for the Federal Information Interest Group (FIIG).

In that role, she manages and provides research assistance for the Federal, state, and local Government collections and serves as the FDLP coordinator. In addition, she is the subject specialist and academic liaison for Urban Studies & Planning and Environmental Studies. Smith has been active with several GODORT committees, currently serving on the Education Committee, and received the ProQuest/ALA/GODORT “Documents to the People” award in 2021.

Mead focuses his career on ensuring equitable citizen access to legal and Government information and the preservation and digitization of historical publications. He is the incoming Chair of both the Legal Information Preservation Alliance and the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Legal History and Rare Books section. He is also a member of AALL’s Government Relations Committee.

Caro is the Government Information Librarian at the New Mexico State Library where she assists users in accessing Government Information. She is also a joint regional coordinator of the Federal Depository Program for New Mexico. She was the editor and an author of Digitizing Your Collection (ALA 2016), and Government Information Essentials (ALA 2018), which won the 2019 Margaret T. Lane/Virginia F. Sanders Memorial Research Award.

Gwen Sinclair is the Chair of the Government Documents & Maps Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library in Honolulu and has 24 years of experience as a Government information librarian. She is an active member of the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) and the Hawai‘i Library Association. She is an adjunct faculty member in the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library and Information Science Program and is the author of the open textbook Government Information: A Reference for Librarians in Hawai‘i. Gwen received both of her master's degrees, in Library and Information Science and Geography, from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She has a BA in German from Trinity University.

Angela J.A. Kent is the Head of History Research Centers (Special Collections) at the Houston Public Library. She formerly served as the Head of Reference and FDLP Co-Regional at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Joshua Finnell is a professor and head of research & instruction in the University Libraries at Colgate University. He leads research and instruction initiatives in the University Libraries at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, with a focus on data policy, infrastructure, and training. In collaboration with Will Cipolli, associate professor of mathematics, he co-founded the Colgate University Data Science Collaboratory. Previous to Colgate, Joshua worked as a data librarian at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a humanities librarian at Denison University, and a clinical outcomes research coordinator at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. His research has received grant funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Central New York Humanities Corridor, the Central New York Libraries Resources Council, and the Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute at Colgate University. His work has been published in SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, Digital Library Perspectives, Planetarian, and International Information & Library Review. Joshua has served on the programming committee for Digital Library Forum, the Web Archiving and Digital Libraries Workshop and Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, and the Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of The Data Discovery Collaboration.

Angela Bonnell has been the Head of Government Documents at Illinois State University’s Milner Library for more than 20 years. She is an active member of the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table (GODORT), where she has served on a variety of committees, most recently as the Chair of the Rare and Endangered Government Publications (REGP) Committee. She is also a council member on the Illinois Government Depository Council (IGDC). She earned her MLIS from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MS in history from Illinois State University. She has published and presented on the use of Government information in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Government document’s use studies, and civic engagement in academic libraries.

Sarah Erekson is the Regional Government Documents Librarian at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries. She oversees Government documents collections undergoing cataloging as part of the shared print repository for the state of Florida. She works to create accessible Government information collections within the Southeast National Collection Service Area, through collaborative agreements such as the ASERL Centers of Excellence, Preservation Stewardship, and Shared Regional Collections. She coordinates with selective depository libraries in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Previously she was a Government Information and Municipal Reference Librarian at Chicago Public Library. She is also active in the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table (GODORT), the Florida Library Association, and the ASERL Collaborative Federal Depository Program Oversight Committee.