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HEADLINE: Mary Alice Baish Named to Depository Library Council
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Roger H. Parent, Executive Director, 312/939-4764
April 22, 1997. Mary Alice Baish, American Association of Law
Libraries' (AALL) Assistant Washington Affairs Representative, has been
named by Public Printer Michael F. DiMario to a three-year term as one
of five new members of the Depository Library Council (DLC). The
15-member Council advises the United States Government Printing Office
(GPO) on issues related to improving public access to government
information through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).
Baish has been AALL's Assistant Washington Affairs Representative since
February 1995. Baish will bring much experience to the Council, through
her many years of service as a documents librarian and her leadership
within the major library associations on government information policy
issues. She is also the Washington Brief columnist for AALL Spectrum,
AALL's official monthly magazine.
AALL members have provided the DLC with service for many years. Susan
Dow, Electronic Information Services Librarian, Charles B. Sears Law
Library at SUNY Buffalo, is completing her term on the DLC, having
served as Secretary in 1995-96. Other recent DLC members from AALL
include Sally Holterhoff, Government Documents Librarian, Valparaiso
University School of Law Library; Robert Oakley, Director of the Law
Library and Professor of Law, Edward Bennett Williams Library,
Georgetown University; Kay Schlueter, Director, Texas State Law Library;
and Susan Tulis, Documents Librarian, University of Virginia Law
Library.
The other newly-appointed DLC council members are Duncan Aldrich, Head,
Business and Government Information Center, University of Nevada-Reno;
Diane Garner, Head, Government Documents and Non-Book Formats
Department, Harvard College Library; Gregory W. Lawrence, Government
Information Librarian, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University; and
Julia Wallace, Head, Government Publications, University of Minnesota.
Administered by the GPO, the FDLP is the major means by which the
federal government disseminates its information to the public. This
nationwide system consists of nearly 1,400 libraries acting in
partnership for the purpose of enabling the general public to have local
access to federal government information at no cost.
The American Association of Law Libraries was founded in 1906 to promote
and enhance the value of law libraries to the legal and public
communities, to foster the profession of law librarianship, and to
provide leadership in the field of legal information.
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