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Laurie Canepa
New Mexico State Library
New Mexico State Coordinator for the IMLS Grant

Laurie Canepa is currently serving as Public Services Director for the New Mexico State Library.  She has served as Regional Federal Depository Librarian at the State Library since 1990, and is currently serving as acting Regional Librarian. 

She has been a federal document and law librarian since 1980; starting at the University of Utah Marriott Library in Salt Lake City; then moving on to the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon; and, finally returning home to New Mexico in 1990 to join the staff of the New Mexico State Library.   The New Mexico State Library was proud to receive the "Depository Library of the Year" award in 2005 in recognition of our digital archiving initiatives and proactive web page development.  

She is standing by the USGS series that includes John Wesley Powell's Exploration of the Colorado River, which is one of her many favorite documents.

Dan Barkley
University of New Mexico  (Albuquerque)

Dan was unavailable to have his picture taken so he asked me to step in.  I'm Orbit, the mascot for the Albuquerque Isotopes, a minor league affiliate of the Florida Marlins.  When Dan isn't working as Coordinator of Government Information and Microforms at the University of New Mexico, he can be found out at the ball park.  Even during his tenure as Chair of the Depository Library Council, Dan was known for his baseball jokes to start off each council meeting. 

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David Falkowski
Eastern New Mexico University (Portales)

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Dori Molletti
Farmington Public Library

Hello, I'm Dori Molletti and I am one of the Adult Services Librarians at the Farmington Public Library. One of my duties is to oversee the Federal Government Documents here. We have a small government documents collection, and I've only be working with them for half a year, so I don't really have a particular favorite. However, I chose "Play Day in the Park" since as a former Children's Librarian, I'm impressed with the number of gov docs written for children and their parents.

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Sylvia Ortiz
New Mexico State University (Las Cruces)

Hi, I'm Sylvia Ortiz, Business Librarian and part-time Government Documents Librarian. Over the years I've helped with such a variety of documents it's hard to choose a favorite, but I must say, I am particularly fond of American Factfinder. What I enjoy most about working with government documents is their great variety. Most recently I worked with a professor to locate bathymetric charts for lakes in New Mexico.

Alice Robledo
New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library (Santa Fe)

Hi, I'm an Associate Law Librarian here at the New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library. My main function is to provide reference to our judicial staff, legal community, and the public, which includes many of the government documents that are in our modules.  I also work with Outreach activities for our state and hopefully these modules will facilitate future presentations from our library.

Linda Ware
New Mexico Supreme Court Law Library (Sante Fe)

Hi, I am Linda Ware and I am an Assistant State Law Librarian at the New  Mexico Supreme Court Law Library in Santa Fe.  I have been here for twenty years and have been doing Government Documents for the past seven  years. 

I do a great deal of reference and in doing so I try to steer people to Government Documents whenever I can.  In particular, I send people to GPOAccess  to find the Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Code, and Federal Register answers.  Most people are not aware of how much government information is available on line. For the past year Alice Robledo and I have been presenting seminars on legal research and online resources to public libraries across our state.

Margaret Weaver
New Mexico Junior College (Hobbs)

Hi!  My name is Margaret Weaver.  I am the Coordinator of Technical Services at New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs, New Mexico.  Government Documents have been an important resource throughout my career.  I have been officially working with Government Documents for less than a year.  My favorite Government Document is the Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Lucinda Whitehourse
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (Socorro)

Hi! My name is Lucinda Whitehorse and I have been working with Government Publications for 6 years now and I enjoy helping our patrons access the information available to them. I also have the privilege of being responsible for the New Mexico Tech archives which  contains the Joseph R. Skeen collection.

I have to admit that I do not have one particular favorite document, but the World Factbook has got to be one of the most basic yet informational documents we have.

Becky Young
Western New Mexico University (Silver City)

Hi, I’m Becky Young, a reference librarian who works with government documents at Miller Library at Western New Mexico University. Our government document collection may be small, but it is an integral part of our collection. This is my first opportunity to work as a gov doc librarian so I am really learning a lot.  Picking one favorite document is impossible since there are so many that I find interesting and useful and they are in such different formats, print, micro and on-line.  My two favorite print documents have to be The Statistical Abstract of the United States and Occupational Outlook Handbook. On second thought, maybe I should mention one of the great documents produced by the U.S. Geological Survey or the Education Department, but what about all the others? The wonderful part of being a gov doc librarian is having so many choices!