Depository Library Council

Mikulski previously served as the FDLP coordinator at Portland State University and joined the William & Mary Libraries in May 2022, where he provides research support and instruction in the areas of History, Philosophy, and Government Information. He is a GOVDOC-L moderator, an active member of GODORT, and has been involved with state documents associations including the Documents Interest Group of Oregon and the Documents Association of New Jersey.

As the FDLP Coordinator for MSU’s large selective depository library, she provides reference and instruction with an emphasis on finding and using Government-produced data and statistics. Mrs. Ezzo is also a special format cataloger, specializing in video games. She is active in the American Library Association’s Government Documents Round Table (GODORT), has held leadership roles in Michigan’s GODORT, and serves as a moderator for the GOVDOC-L listserv. She earned her bachelor's degree in History from Michigan State University and her Master of Library and Information Science from Wayne State University.

She has been a strong advocate of access to Government information in all formats. She has presented programs/workshops on finding fugitive Government documents and using LibGuides in promoting Government information at numerous professional meetings. She is an active member of ALA GODORT, having served in various capacities including more recently as Bylaws Coordinator, GODORT Archivist, and Notable Documents Panelist. She is also one of the longest-serving moderators for GOVDOC-L, a national discussion forum for Government information.

As a reference librarian and Federal depository library Coordinator, she provides general legal reference assistance and specialized reference assistance in the use of U.S. Government information to IU patrons and administers the Law Library’s U.S. Government depository program. Jennifer also teaches an advanced legal research course for the Law School as well as courses in Government information for Indiana University’s School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering and the University of Washington’s iSchool.

Jennifer is active in several state and national professional organizations, including the American Association of Law Libraries and its Government Documents Special Interest Section, INDIGO (Indiana Networking for Documents Information and Organizations), and the Government Information Day planning committee at the Indiana State Library. In addition to her professional and volunteer positions, Jennifer wrote a book chapter on Government documents, “The Evolution of Government Documents,” published in both editions of Law Librarianship in the 21st Century.

Jennifer earned a Bachelor's degree in English Literature from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana) and her Master of Library Science degree from Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana).

She manages the Federal, international, and U.S. state documents collections and serves as the Regional Federal Depository Librarian for North Carolina. She is also the subject liaison librarian for the Political Science and History departments, and the curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense. Renée is actively involved in the Government Resources Section of the North Carolina Library Association and is also the current chair of the ASERL Collaborative Federal Depository Program Steering Committee. Renée received her B.A. in Linguistics and Italian and M.S. in Library Science, both from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Jefferson College Library doubles as a public library and provides a range of services to a local population that is without a public library. Ms. Pritchard teaches, hosts events, and collaborates with campus and community partners to enhance civic engagement and increase awareness of Government documents, our country’s history, and the democratic process. She is passionate about the power of libraries to enable citizens to positively shape their own lives and improve their communities through access to Government information.

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.

She oversees public and technical services for maps & GIS as well as Federal, state of Georgia, and international government publications. Valerie has more than 20 years of experience connecting users with Government information and managing collections in depository libraries of varying sizes, including at UGA, which is an ASERL Center of Excellence for Federal depository maps. She is active in the American Library Association and Georgia Library Association and is currently a member of the HathiTrust Federal Documents Advisory Committee.

At the University of Kentucky, Laub-Carroll 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-Carroll 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 North Dakota State University where she assists users in accessing Government information. She is also a joint regional coordinator of the Federal Depository Library Program for North Dakota. 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. Saunders Memorial Research Award.