Guide to Historical Research with Government Publications, 1789–1989

Cheryl Truesdell is Dean of the Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Helmke Library and has achieved full rank. During the past 25 years she has served in a leadership position in almost every department in the library, including Document Delivery Services, Technical Services, Government Documents, acting Head of Reference and Information Services, manager of the digital library program, as well as Associate Library Director and acting Library Director. Her expertise and professional interests include strategic planning, building digital library collections, resource sharing, copyright law, and U.S. government information services. She has been active in Indiana libraries and library organizations since 1980 serving in leadership roles in the American Library Association, the Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority (INCOLSA), the Indiana State Library Advisory Council, Indiana Government Documents Organization, INDIGO, and the Indiana Library Federation. In 2007 she was elected by more than 3,000 personal, institutional, and library-trustee members to the position of Vice President–President Elect of the Indiana Library Federation. She has also been active in a number of Indiana University Libraries system-wide committees, including the IUCAT Catalog Request Delivery implementation team. She has published articles in the Journal of Academic Librarianship, Indiana Libraries, and DTTP: Documents to the People, and
has been a presenter at state, regional and national conferences, including the Indiana Library Federation, INDIGO, the Indiana Health Science Librarians Association, the Midwest Federation of Library Associations, the American Library Association, and Federal Depository Library Conference. In her spare time, Ms. Truesdell indulges in her love for gardening and mystery novels.