Geoffrey Swindells Joins GovInfo as Head

I’m pleased to announce the appointment of Geoffrey Swindells as Head of the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department.Geoffrey has been the Head of the Government Documents Department and Federal Depository Librarian at the University of Missouri since 1999. Prior to that, he held the positions of Librarian and Documents Access Librarian at Missouri.

Geoffrey is very active in the profession including appointment to the Depository Library Council to the Public Printer of the United States in 2005 and election as the Chair in 2007. In addition, he’s an Adjunct Lecturer on Government Information at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He can be reached at x1-2927 or g-swindells@northwestern.edu. Please join me in welcoming Geoffrey to the Northwestern University Library!

I’d like to recognize the work of the search committee for this position. Thank you to Charlotte Cubbage (chair), Donia Conn, Chris Davidson, Natalie Pelster and Louis Takacs.

Laurel Minott
Assistant University Librarian for Public Services

(Photo by Mary Bradley)