Roberta Shaffer is a brilliant and visionary Law Librarian of Congress, owing in part, one supposes, to her fascinating career in the law. In the 1990s, she served simultaneously as coordinator of the law librarianship specialization at the School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America and as the head librarian at Covington and Burling. She was Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas at Austin; professor at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland in College Park; and executive director of the Library of Congress’s FEDLINK program (think: GSA schedule for government information). Roberta has seen the law from every angle: as a lawyer, librarian, educator, and public servant.
