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Tim’s letters of nomination note, in a career spanning more than 30 years, he has been a prominent force in the field of documents librarianship.

Tim worked to make the University of Colorado-Boulder Library a source for technical information and administered one of the largest collections of government technical reports in the country. Further, he used the knowledge of that collection to aid in the work with GWLA (Greater Western Library Alliance) and their TRAIL (Technical Report Archive and Image Library) Project. Tim was solely responsible for helping teach the group the importance of, knowledge held by, and unique contributions that could be made by government documents librarians. These contributions ranged from teaching project participants about the history of particular series of publications to helping the project contact and share the vision of the project with leaders in government agency information divisions. His ability to reach out to these individuals and groups with expediency demonstrated his extensive network within the government documents community.”

As a regional librarian, he has been active and interested, coordinating monthly meetings to keep librarians in selective depositories informed and to facilitate their knowledge of federal information sources. He has worked with the Five-State Depository Meetings then spearheaded the Government Information in the 21st Century Project to build the knowledge of electronic government information by librarians and library staff of all types. This project was the recipient of an IMLS, Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant award (2006-2008). Since moving to the Department of Energy, he has provided training to the depository community, either on-site or virtually. And more recently he has been working as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s School of Information Science teaching government documents.

Tim has made presentations at a variety of conferences and mediums, and through on-site and virtual connections. He has served on seventeen different committees and task forces in GODORT, many of them for multiple terms, and more recently he served on the Depository Library Council to the Public Printer and as its chair.

One letter sums up Tim’s career, “Tim Byrne’s commitment to Government Documents, to Government Information and to the librarian profession can be readily observed in his record of professional service to many organizations, and also in his work at Virginia Commonwealth University, at the University of Colorado-Boulder and now at OSTI. Tim continues to be active in the Documents Community and to leave his mark on other librarians and the public with his training sessions. Educating his colleagues and the next generation of librarians about the importance of Government Information is just one admirable quality that makes Tim Byrne rise to the top in my esteem and why I support his nomination for this lifetime achievement award.”