UIC Librarian appointed to Depository Library Council
Associate Professor John Shuler, Bibliographer for Government Information and Urban Planning/ Documents Librarian has been appointed to the Public Printer’s Depository Library Council. This Council is composed of 15 members, each of whom serves a three year term and is responsible for advising the Public Printer on policy matters relating to the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The FDLP provides access to the published information of all three branches of the US Government through partnerships between the US Government Printing Office and more than 1250 libraries. Nominees to the Council are selected through a national search of recognized experts involved in the collection and distribution of government information.
Shuler has published extensively on the policy implications of government information in electronic format and the implications of digital reference services in libraries. He established the first Depository Partnership with the Government Printing Office and the US State Department, and spearheaded a thirty library virtual reference collaboration that is about to be formalized into another GPO partnership. Shuler has overseen UIC’s participation in the Federal Depository Program since 1993. , field_56ba6f8fdb00c