Shaffer Named Head of FLICC

-- Library Journal, 08/19/2005

Roberta Shaffer has been named executive director of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) and Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) at the Library of Congress (LC). FLICC fosters interagency cooperation and makes recommendations on federal library and information policies, programs, and procedures. FEDLINK functions as a purchasing, training, and resource-sharing consortium for federal libraries. Shaffer comes from the University of Maryland at College Park, where she served as director of external relations and program development in the College of Information Studies and developed a new master's of information management degree program. She also was executive director of SLA briefly, from September 2001 to February 2002, saying as she left that she and the group were not in sync regarding the pace of change. Shaffer, who is a lawyer and librarian, was dean at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Library and Information Science for two years before joining SLA. She had previously held positions with the Washington-based law firm Covington and Burlington, George Washington University's law library, and LC.