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Lindsay currently serves as a student worker in the Government Documents Department at the Ellis Library at the University of Missouri-Columbia. With severe budget cuts to the Library, Lindsay has been a welcome addition to the Documents Department given her natural aptitude for learning the numerous nuances of working with government information. She has mastered the Ellis Library shelf-list and serial check-in files as well as the Catalog of Government Publications and the Monthly Catalog. For Lindsay the library has always been a place where she felt comfortable and empowered. While in college she discovered how much she enjoyed doing research, finding materials and even helping her classmates use the library. It was a revelation for her that she could do such work professionally as a librarian, and fulfill a deeper desire to serve, help and teach others. Lindsay aspires to work in an academic library where she can work with reference, cataloging and government information. In a short time, and like many before her, Lindsay quickly realized the importance of government information and the issues that document departments encounter such as lack of use or how the materials are often dismissed.

She is passionate about government documents and is determined to erase the misconceptions that these materials are only for politicians, lawyers, or economists. Lindsay believes the major differences between a document collection and other collections in a library is the vast amount of varying subjects covered and how a government publication can apply to a person's daily life. As a future librarian, she hopes to use the documents collection to broaden information literacy education in the classroom.

Lindsay's passion for government documents and her desire to help people learn will make her a fine addition to the profession for many years.