Biography
John A. Shuler is an
Associate Professor and Department Head/Documents Librarian at the University
of Illinois of Chicago. Since receiving his MLS from the University of
California, Los Angeles in 1983, Prof. Shuler has been a faculty member and
documents librarian at universities in Oregon and New York. Writing, teaching,
and lecturing extensively on information policy issues, political analyses of
the U.S. Government Printing Office, and its system of depository libraries, he
serves as reviews editor and editorial board member for Government Information
Quarterly, editor for the American
Library Association's Government Documents Roundtable quarterly publication
Documents to the People, and writes a column for the Journal of Academic
Librarianship.
Education
University of
California, Los Angeles. MLS, 1983
California State
University, Long Beach, BA, Urban
Planning/Geography, 1979
Employment
Documents Librarian (Head of
Department), University of Illinois at Chicago, Documents, Maps, Microforms and
Curriculum Library Department, Associate Professor. August 1, 1993-present
Department Head, Documents, Maps,
Microforms Department, Case Library, Colgate University, March 1988 to July 31,
1993
Public Affairs Librarian, Public Affairs
Library, University of Oregon, July 1985 to February 1988
Department Head (Acting), Documents
and Public Affairs Service Department, Main Library, University of Oregon,
August 1986 to August 1987
Documents Section Head (Acting),
Main Library, University of Oregon, February 1984 to July 1985
Documents Librarian, Main Library,
University of Oregon, July 1983 to February 1984
TEACHING
University of Illinois at Chicago,
1993 -
Syracuse University School of
Information Studies
During 1991 and 1992
Fall terms.
Colgate University
University of Oregon
University of California, Los
Angeles
Served as Teaching
Assistant Consultant for the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science.
HONORS
Received the 1991
Readex/GODORT/ALA Catherine J. Reynolds Award to support research on the
political history of the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Selected as the
Reference Intern from the Graduate Library and Information Science program at
UCLA by the Main Library at California State University, Long Beach. Served
from September 1981 to May 1983.
GRANTS/PUBLICATIONS/RESEARCH
GRANTS
Principal Investigator,
"Public Reading Room." U.S. Dept. of Energy, Argonne Lab. For FY 98,
FY99, funded at $22,000 each year.
Principal Investigator,
"Internet Project for the Donor's Forum," FY98. Funded at $14,000.
Principal Investigator,
"Illinois State Library Equipment Grant," FY97. Funded at $3,000.
Principal Investigator,
"Department of State Geographic Information/Student Web Server,"
FY98. Funded at $12,000.
Principal Investigator,
"DOSFAN Electronic Research
Collection," FY 97/98
Principal Investigator,
"Library Services and Technology Act program Grant: Creating Public
Information Training Programs for Illinois Library System Districts,"
Requested funding: $250,000.
Not Funded.
Co-Principal Investigator,
"The Metropolitan Chicago Infobase Research and Demonstration
Project," Requested funding: $430,879. Not funded.
Co-Principal Investigator.
"Internet Repository Service." U.S. Department of State. Contract.
For FY96, funded at $25,000. Principal Investigator: Sharon Hogan. For FY97,
funded at $55,000. For FY98, funded at $55,000 For FY99 funded at $60,000.
Contributor.
"Criminal Justice World Wide Web Project." Illinois Criminal Justice
Authority and the University of Illinois at Chicago's Office of International
Criminal Justice. Funded at $150,000. Principal Investigator: J. David Coldren
Collaborator.
"Learning Illinois: Issues in Planning and Public Management"
Learning Technologies in Higher Education. Funded at $40,000. Principal
Investigator: Allen W. Lerner
Collaborator.
"Chicago Health Policy Archives." UIC Great Cities Faculty Seed Fund.
Funded at $9,958. Principal Investigator: Elaine Russo Martin
Collaborator.
"Chicago Community Information Resource Technology Network,"
Requested funds, $684,837. Not Funded.
PUBLICATIONS
“The Information
Superhighway’s Iron Triangle, Privacy, Filtering, and Internet Use Policies:
Damned if We Do; Damned if We Don’t “The
cybrarian's manual 2. Pat Ensor, editor. Chicago: American Library
Association, 1999
"Civic
Cybrarianship: Government and the Information SuperHighway Public Lanes."
chapter in The Cybrarian's Manual, Pat Ensor, editor. Chicago: American
Library Association, 1997. pp. 273-282.
Co-author with Peter
Hernon, "The Depository Library Program: Another Component of the Access
Puzzle Shifting to Electronic Formats," chapter in Federal Information Policies for
the 1990s: Views and Perspectives, Peter Hernon, Charles R. McClure,
and Harold C. Relyea, editors. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Co., 1996. pp.
259-278.
"Information
Technology Development and the Documents, Maps, and Microforms Department at Colgate University," in Depository
Library Use of Technology: A Practitioner's Perspective, Jan Swanbeck
and Peter Hernon, editors. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Co., 1992, pp.
149-170.
Articles
“A Critique of
Universal Service, E-Rate, and the Chimera of the Public’s Interest.” Government Information Quarterly: An
International Journal of Resources, Services, Policies, and Practices.
Vol. 16, No. 4. 1999. p. 359-369.
“The Community
Information Organization: An Initiative for Communities and Academic
Libraries.” With Jack Sulzer. Collection
Management. Vol. 23, No. 3. p. 9-20.
"Civic
Librarianship: Possible New Role for Depository Libraries in the Next
Century?" Journal of Government Information: An International Review of Policy,
Issues and Resources. Vol. 23, No. 4, 1996. pp. 419-426.
"Of Special
Interest: Scholarly Publishing on the World Wide Web." with Peter Hernon. Journal
of Academic Librarianship. Vol. 22, March 1996. p. 142.
"Cyberspace
Democracy," Documents to the People. Vol. 23, No. 2. June 1995. p. 85-86.
"Community Information
Organizations: The Chicago Model," Proceedings of the 4th Annual Federal
Depository Library Conference. April 11-14, 1995, Rosslyn Westpark Hotel, Arlington, VA. Washington,
D.C.: Library Programs Service, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995. pp.
45-52
"A New Order Of
Things: The Political Future of Documents Librarians and a National System of
Federal Depository Libraries," Government Information Quarterly: An
International Journal of Resources, Services, Policies, and Practices.
Vol. 11, No. 3. 1994. p. 315-322.
"Democracy on
Disc: For the Record." Computers in Libraries. Vol. 9, No.
10/12, November/December 1993. p. 40-41.
"Great
Expectations, Grand Challenges, Limited Opportunities," Computers
in Libraries. Vol. 13, No. 9, October 1993. p. 46-52.
"Democracy on
Disc," CD-ROM World. May 1993. p. 40-44.
"A Tale of Two
Federal Agencies," CD-ROM World. April 1993. p. 73-76.
"Feature:
Democracy on Disc," CD-ROM World. February/March 1993.
p. 50-53.
"Democracy on a
Disc: The Numbers Are Still Astounding," CD-ROM World. January
1993. p. 64-68.
"Democracy on a
Disc," CD-ROM Librarian. Vol. 7, No. 10, November 1992.p. 24-29.
"An Echo, Not a
Choice," Government Information Quarterly: An International Journal of
Resources, Services, Policies, and Practices. Vol. 9, No. 3. 1992. p.
351-353.
"Government
Information in Cyberspace: Accessing the Public Forum in the 21st
Century," Documents to the People. Vol. 20, No. 1, March 1992. p. 22-25.
"Mr. Houk Goes to
Washington: a Profile of the New Public Printer," Documents to the People.
Vol. 18, No. 4, December 1990. p. 220-233.
"Free Trade
Agreement Bibliography," Documents to the People. Vol. 18,
No. 2. June 1990. p. 94-98.
"The Nature of
Government Information Policy Literature," Government Information Quarterly: An International Journal of
Resources, Services, Policies, and Practices. Vol. 7, No. 1. 1990. p.
97-99.
"Development of
Oregon's Documents Interest Group," Pacific Northwest Library Association
Quarterly. Vol. 50, No. 3. Spring 1986. p. 21.
Other publication activities
Co-Editor for special
issue of Government Information Quarterly: An International Journal of
Resources, Services, Policies, and Practices, Vol. 15. No. 1. Published
in 1998. Articles in issue discuss the various policy and service implications
for Federal Depository Libraries as federal government agencies shift to a
greater reliance on electronic information products and services.
Contributed portions
to the Coalition for Networked Information's study "Access to and Services
for Federal Information in the Networked Environment," March 1997.
Editorial responsibilities and positions
Appointed as editor of
Documents
to the People, official quarterly publication of the American Library
Association's Government Documents Round Table. June 1998–.
Appointed monthly
columnist for CD-ROM World (formerly CD-ROM Librarian) in September 1992.
Column focused on analyzing government information products/services
distributed in the optical storage formats.
In January 1989, I became a member of editorial board and reviews
editor for Government Information Quarterly: An International Journal of
Resources, Services, Policies, and Practices.
Served as Advertising
Manager for Documents to the People, official quarterly publication of the
American Library Association's Government Documents Round Table from 1988
through 1991.
Selected as Reviewer
for Choice
in January 1987.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Books
The U.S. Government
Printing Office: Change and Conflict in Federal Information Policy
Forthcoming from Ablex Publishing.
Key Guide to
Electronic Resources: Government Information.
To be published by Information Today, Inc.
Articles
Forthcoming: “New
Depository Partnerships: the UIC Experience” in Government Information Quarterly:
An International Journal of Resources, Services, Policies, and Practices on
the Partnership/Electronic Depository Library agreement with UIC, the U.S.
Department of State and the Government Printing Office. To be published in late
2000.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, UIC
UIC Library Committees
Electronic Services
Committee, Chair: 1997- (appointed)
Referral Process Total
Quality Management Team: 1995-1997 (appointed)
Integrated Library
Systems Advisory Committee (ILISAC): 1995-1997 (appointed)
Appointments
Committee: 1997- (elected)
Library Faculty
Executive Committee: 1998 - (elected)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, NON-UNIVERSITY
Professional Association Memberships
Illinois Library
Association,
Government Documents
Roundtable: 1997-
Association of College
and Research Libraries: 1997-
Northeastern Illinois
Documents Librarians: 1994-
American Library
Association: 1982-present
Government Documents
Roundtable: 1983-present
Association of College
and Research Libraries: 1983-present
New York Library
Association (NYLA): 1989-1993
Government Information
Roundtable: 1989-1993
Documents Interest
Group of Oregon (DIGOR): 1983-1987
Offices, National
American Library Association
Association
of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
Community
Information Organization Initiative: Chair, 1995-
(appointed)
Canadian
Studies Discussion Group: member 1986-1990; elected secretary
1987-1988; elected chair 1988-1990.
Government
Documents Round Table (GODORT)
Chair,
Government Information and Technology Committee (GITCO):
Appointed to serve from 1990 through 1992 and from 1995 to 1997. From August
1990 through June 1992, proposed and developed specific goals for electronic
government information products that were adopted by GODORT. Also proposed a
national system of technology grants that could be sponsored by GODORT to help
finance the purchase of necessary information technology.
GODORT
Steering Committee: member 1987/1988; 1990/1992; 1995/1997
Co-Chair,
GODORT Local Arrangements Committee, 1995 Summer Conference in Chicago:
appointed.
Notable
Documents Committee: invited judge, 1986-1991.
Statistical
Measurement Committee: appointed member 1987/1988.
International
Documents Task Force: member 1985-1990. elected secretary
1985/1986; elected Assistant Coordinator/ Coordinator-elect 1986/1987; served
as Coordinator 1987/1988.
Appointed Advertising
Manager for Documents to the People, GODORT's quarterly publication. Served
June 1988 through January 1991.
Appointed Editor for Documents
to the People, GODORT's quarterly publication. June 1998-- .
Offices, State/Regional
Committee on Institutional
Cooperation (CIC)
Government
Documents Task Force. 1997-. Appointed to committee as UIC
Representative.
Illinois
Illinois Library Association
Government
Documents Roundtable. 1997-. Elected General Manager for
1998/99.
ILLINET Federal Depository Coordinating Council.
Appointed by State Librarian 1995-1997; 1998-
Northeast
Illinois Documents Librarians Group. Elected Chair,
1994-1995; Elected Secretary, 1996-1997.
New York
Central New York Library Resources
Council: 1988-1991.
Legislative
Committee: appointed member of committee in 1988; served
as Chair from 1989 to 1990.
New York Library Association:
1989-1993
Government
Information Round Table (GIRT): 1989-1993 Appointed GIRT's Legislative Liaison in October 1991. From
June 1991 through July 1992, participated in the development of state
legislation that reorganized the existing state depository library laws in New
York. I wrote NYLA reports, spoke to staff and members of the state legislature,
and kept other members of the NYLA government documents community informed of
the legislation's progress.
Committee
on New York State Documents: Appointed Chair from
October 1990 through
May 1993.
Oregon
Documents
Interest Group of Oregon: Newsletter editor 1984/1985;
president-elect in 1986; served as president in 1987.
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
"Discovering New
Horizons for Government Information Resources." Invited to be speaker at
the annual conference of the American Association of Law Librarians. Anaheim,
CA, July 13, 1998.
(Invited)
"Delivering
Quality Government Information Services Without the Burden of a Being
Depository," program proposal accepted for: Academic Libraries at the
Crossroads: Identity and Change. Conference sponsored by the Illinois
Association of College and Research Libraries (IACRL). April 23-24, 1998.
Matteson, IL. (Invited)
"Electronic
Public Information and Libraries: Why We Won't Need Government Document Librarians in the Next Century,"
presentation to the South Carolina Library Association Conference, Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina November 12, 1997. (Invited)
"Recent
Developments Affecting the Distribution of Government Information,"
presentation at the second annual Illinois Initiatives meeting, sponsored by
the Illinois State Library, Springfield, Illinois, Oct. 31, 1997. (Invited)
"Management
Challenges & Opportunities of a Depository Partnership: The GPO/University
of Illinois at Chicago/Department of State Electronic Research
Collection," presented at the Fall
1997 Federal
Depository Library Council Meeting, Clearwater, Florida, October 22, 1997.
(Invited)
"Collection
Development in the Electronic Age: Government Information," presented at
the International Relations Roundtable's Pre-conference Institute on "Collection
Development in the Electronic Age," presented at the American Library
Association's annual Conference in San Francisco, June 27, 1997. (Invited)
"Partnerships and
Opportunities," presentation/paper at the Sixth Annual Federal Depository
Library Council Meeting, Rosslyn, VA. April 17th, 1997. (Invited)
"Great Cities and
New Paradigms: Development of Effective Community Information
Organizations," presentation as part of
Purdue University Libraries Seminar Series, April 2, 1997.
(Invited)
"Creating for the
Web," presented a seminar hosted by the Chicago Area Law Librarians,
January 23rd, 1997. (Invited)
"Nerves of
Government: Shifting Technologies; Changing Responsibilities in the Electronic
Government Environment," Illinois Initiative Meeting, Chicago Illinois,
November 14, 1996. (Invited)
"Putting Content
onto the Internet," part of a panel discussion presented at the LITA/LAMA
National Conference Transforming Libraries, Pittsburgh, PA, Wednesday, October
16, 1996. (Invited)
"New Issues Facing
Serials/Documents Librarians and Serials Collections," presented at the
Fifth North Carolina Serials Conference, Serials at the Speed of Write --
Coping, Burlington, NC, April 4, 1996. (Invited)
"Tuning in to the
Federal Government: Electronic Access to Government Documents Video
Conference," panel discussion hosted by the Illinois State Library on May
1, 1996 in Springfield, Illinois. Videotape available upon request (Invited)
"Becoming a Web
Publisher: Copyright, Academic Freedom and the Web," part of a panel
discussion at the Fourth UIC Symposium on Copyright and Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property in the Networked Environment: An Update for the Academic
Community. April 23, 1996. (Invited.)
"Developing Civic
Activism and Civic Librarianship," Presented at Nuts and Bolts of
Community Networks Conference sponsored by the Southeast Florida Library
Network, Tampa, Florida, April 19,
1996. (Invited)
"Training and
Education for Documents Librarians," presentation before ILLINET
Government Depository Coordinating Council, October 30th, 1995. (Invited)
"Putting Content
on the Internet: the Library's Role as Creator of Electronic Information,"
Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries, Matteson, IL. October
13, 1995. (Invited)
"The Future
History of Title 44," Chair of panel discussion and presenter, 1995 American Library Association
Annual Conference, Chicago, June 26th, 1995. (Invited)
"Designing Local
and Regional Community Information Organizations at the University of Illinois,"
presentation/paper at the Third Annual Conference on Rural Datafication:
Routing the Information
Highway Down Main
Street. Indianapolis, IN. May 22nd through May 24th, 1995. (Invited)
"The State
Department Archives and the GPO Gateway," presentation at the ILLINET
Government Depository Coordinating Council meeting, Springfield, IL. May 19th,
1995. (Invited)
"Community
Information Organizations: The Chicago Model," presentation/paper at the
Fourth Annual Federal Depository Library Council Meeting, Rosslyn, VA. April
11th through April
14th, 1995. (Invited)
"Cyberspace and
Democracy," presentation/paper at the 1994 American Library Association
annual Conference, Miami, Florida, June 26th, 1994. (Invited)
"Government
Information in Electronic Format," workshop/presentation at the Ninth
Annual Computers in Libraries Conference '94, Arlington, Virginia. February
28th, 1994. (Invited)
Worked with the Public
Affairs Office at the U.S. Department of
State on a proposed CD-ROM product, Foreign Affairs on CD-ROM. Gave a
brief presentation on the potential public use of such a product at the 1993 National Conference and
Educational Symposium on CD- ROM. (Volunteered)