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APPENDIX 22. STUDY PANELS AND GROUP OF EXPERTS MEMBERSHIPS 

Note: This is a final list of members for each of the four panels, and for the Group of 

Experts, as of October 23, 2000. These are special groups that NCLIS established to 

assist the Commission in formulating findings, conclusions, and recommendations, 

and/or reviewing and critiquing those findings and recommendations, for the 

Comprehensive Assessment of Public Information Dissemination. 

FINAL PANEL AND GROUP OF EXPERTS MEMBERSHIPS 

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PANEL ONE—NTIS BUSINESS MODEL 

Chair: Peter Urbach, Retired, former Deputy Director, National Technical Information Service 

(NTIS), former publishing industry executive 

 

Members: 

Kenneth Allen, Executive Vice President & CEO National Newspaper Association, formerly 

OMB/OIRA Staff 

Steve Arnold, President, Arnold Information Technology 

Ernest G. Baldwin, Director, Library Program Service, Superintendent of Documents, U.S. 

Government Printing Office (GPO) 

Mel Day, Retired, former Director, National Technical Information Service (NTIS), former Deputy 

Director, National Library of Medicine (NLM) 

Mike Majcher, Retired, former Manager, Technical Information Center, Xerox Corporation 

Steve Needle, Assistant to Director, National Technical Information Service (NTIS) 

Kent Smith, Deputy Director, NLM 

Tim Sprehe, Sprehe Information Management Associates, formerly OMB/OIRA 

Kenneth Wiggin, State Librarian, Connecticut State Library 

Jay Young, Retired, former Director, Sales Service and Director, Library Programs, Superintendent of 

Documents/GPO 

 

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PANEL TWO—INTERNAL GOVERNMENT USERS 

Chair: Kurt Molholm, Administrator, Defense Technical Information Center, and Chair, CENDI 

 

Members: 

Owen Ambur, Systems Analyst, Division of Information Resources Management, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior 

Lawrence Brandt, Program Director for Digital Government, National Science Foundation (NSF) 

Jonda Byrd, National Library Network Program Manager, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

Bonnie Carroll, Executive Director, CENDI, and President, Information International Associates 

Blane Dessy, Director, Library Staff, Department of Justice, and Vice Chair, Federal Library and 

Information Center Committee (FLICC) 

T. C. Evans, Assistant Director, Office of Electronic Information Dissemination Services, U.S. 

Government Printing Office (GPO) 

Walter Finch, Associate Director for Business Development, National Technical Information Service 

(NTIS) 

Patrice McDermott, Co-Director, Agenda for Access, OMB Watch 

Ray Mosley, Director, Office of the Federal Register (OFR), National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA) 

Al Pesachowitz, Director, IT Consulting, Grant Thornton LLP, formerly CIO, Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) and Vice Chairman, CIO Council 

George J. Roncaglia, Head, Scientific and Technical Information Program Office, National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 

John A. Shuler, Richard J. Daily Library, University of Illinois at Chicago 

Kent Smith, Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine (NLM) 

J. Timothy Sprehe, Sprehe Information Management Associates, Inc. 

Susan Tarr, Executive Director, Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC), 

Library of Congress 

Walter Warnick, Director, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Department of Energy 

Observers: Ann Miller, Duke University and President, Government Documents Roundtable 

(GODORT) of the American Library Association (ALA), and Lynne Bradley, Washington Office, 

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PANEL THREE—EXTERNAL (TO GOVERNMENT) USERS 

Chair: Miriam Drake, Dean and Director of Libraries, Georgia Institute of Technology 

Members: 

Prudence Adler, Association of Research Libraries 

Lewis Bellardo, Deputy Archivist of the United States, National Archives and Records 

Administration 

Kevin Donovan, Environmental Protection Agency 

Sharon Hogan, University of Illinois, Chicago 

Barbie Keiser, Information Resources Management Consultant 

Diane Nester Kresh, Library of Congress 

Bernie Margolis, Boston Public Library 

Jim McGinty, Cambridge Information Group 

Barbara Peterson, 3M Library and Information Services 

Barbara Quint, Searcher Magazine 

Dale Stanley, Pfizer, Inc. 

Rick Weingarten, American Library Association 

Freida Weise, University of Maryland 

Gladys Ann Wells, Director and State Librarian, Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records 

PANEL FOUR—PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS 

Chair: Wayne Kelley, Retired, former Superintendent of Documents, GPO, former industry executive 

Members: Mary Alice Baish, American Association of Law Libraries 

Francis Buckley, Superintendent of Documents, U.S. government Printing Office 

Anne Caputo, Special Libraries Association 

Blane Dessy, Director, Library Staff, Department of Justice 

Dan Duncan, Consultant, former Vice President for Public Relations, Software and Information 

Industry Association, and previously Information Industry Association 
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Wally Finch, Associate Director for Business Development, National Technical Information Service 

Neal Gregory, Consultant 

Donald Hagen, Bernan Associates 

Richard Kaser, Executive Director, National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services 

(NFAIS) 

Nancy Kranich, President, American Library Association 

David LeDuc, Software and Information Industry Association 

Edwin Levine, Chief Information Officer, Environmental Protection Agency 

Eric Massant, Reed Elsevier, Inc. 

Peyton Neal, Consultant, PRN Associates 

James Nelson, State Librarian and Commissioner for Libraries and Archives, Kentucky 

Roxanne Williams, formerly U.S. Department of Agriculture 

Observers: Lynne Bradley, American Library Association; Steve Buckley, Radian, Inc. 

GROUP OF EXPERTS 

Christopher Burns, President, Christopher Burns Inc. 

Edward A. Fox, Director, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, NDLTD, and 

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech 

Robert M. Hayes, Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA 

Don Langenberg, Chancellor, University System of Maryland 

M. Stuart Lynn, Retired, and formerly Associate Vice President, Information Resources & 

Communications, Office of the President, University of California 

Deanna Marcum, President, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) 

Raymond T. Nimmer, Leonard Childs Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center 

Henry Perritt, Dean, Vice President and Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago 

Ron Plesser, Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe LLP 

William H. Price, Retired, and Former Director, Foreign Affairs Information Center, Department of 

State 
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Carol A. Risher, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Savantech, Inc. 

Thomas Susman, Ropes & Gray 

Paul Uhlir, National Academy of Sciences 

Paul Zurkowski, Newspaper Editor, and former President, Information Industry Association