Guidelines for Libraries of Government Departments - IFLA

Association of Parliament and Governmental Libraries of Germany (APBB) and
co-founder of the Thuringian Association of Governmental Libraries (THABB).
She has been a member of the committee on Guidelines in Government Libraries
Section of IFLA and a Corresponding Member of the Government Libraries
Section for five years. For the term 2007 - 2011 she is a standing committee
member of Government Libraries Section of IFLA.
Sue Westcott currently works in the ICT Division in the UK Department of
Communities and Local Government. She has worked in four UK government
departments in her career in a variety of library and information roles. She also
spent a year on secondment as head of information management at the
International Secretariat of Amnesty International. She is currently secretary of
the Committee of Departmental Librarians, the UK Committee of Heads of
Profession of Government Departments, and has in the past been a councillor
representing the government sector on the national committee for the UK
professional body CILIP.
Jane Wu holds university degrees from the Universities of Manitoba
(Mathematics) and Alberta (Library Science) and St John's University, New York,
N.Y. (MBA). A believer in life-long learning, she has also completed a number of
university courses as a special student. She has been Chief Librarian at the
David Lubin Memorial Library, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the
United Nations, Rome, Italy since August 1993, a time of great transition for the
Organisation and for the Library. Prior to this she held a number of positions of
increasing managerial responsibility in the Canadian federal government, in the
National Library of Canada, Cataloguing Department, Canadiana and the
Canadian MARC Office, the Canadian Department of Justice and the Canadian
Department of Agriculture. She has been active in IFLA since moving
to international librarianship, authoring a number of papers and poster sessions,
editing a compilation of papers for the Government Information and Official
Publications Section (GIOPS), and serving as a member of the GIOPS Standing
Committee for two full terms, first as Information Officer, then as Secretary and
finally as Chair from 2005 to 2007. She was recently (2007) nominated as a
Standing Committee member of the Government Libraries Section.
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