[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 149 (Thursday, September 18, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1838-E1839]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               THANKS TO GIL BALDWIN FOR A JOB WELL DONE

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                          HON. ROBERT A. BRADY

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 18, 2008

  Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, as Chairman of the Joint 
Committee on Printing, I would like to take this opportunity to 
recognize Mr. Ernest Gilman Baldwin, Associate Director for Program 
Management in the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the 
Government Printing Office. Gil, as he is known to his friends and 
colleagues, is retiring next month following 35 years of dedicated 
Federal service at the GPO in support of the Congress, Federal 
agencies, and the American public.
  Beginning in the Congressional Record Index Office in 1973, Mr. 
Baldwin joined GPO's Superintendent of Documents organization in 1974. 
There he spent most of his career working with the Federal Depository 
Library Program (FDLP), the oldest and most respected free Government 
information program in the world, which makes available for public use 
the official publications of this House and of the Senate, as well as 
those of the executive and judicial branches. Mr. Baldwin rose through 
the ranks to become Director of Library Programs in 1998, along the way 
winning the respect and affection of GPO's staff and librarians in more 
than 1,200 depository libraries located in every State and 
congressional district.

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  While Director, Mr. Baldwin began the FDLP's transition to electronic 
document distribution, building a staff with an extraordinary ability 
to work in partnership with depository librarians and the citizens they 
serve. The transition to a more electronic FDLP has resulted in 
significantly increased public access to publications produced by the 
Government, extending the reach of the Federal Depository Library 
Program farther than at any time in its history. Mr. Baldwin managed 
this transition with eagerness, care, and a sense of adventure that 
inspired his staff and his colleagues in the library profession. In 
recognition of his leadership, he was honored in 2005 with the James 
Bennett Childs Award for lifetime contributions to the profession of 
Government documents librarianship, by the Government Documents Round 
Table of the American Library Association.
  For the last 4 years, Mr. Baldwin has brought his experience and 
leadership to the team developing GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys), 
which will bring to maturity GPO's long transition into the digital 
age.
  Next month, Mr. Baldwin will retire from a long and distinguished 
career of public service. I ask my colleagues to join me in conveying 
our thanks and appreciation to Gil Baldwin, and our best wishes for a 
healthy and happy retirement.

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