About the Author

Gwen Sinclair is the Chair of the Government Documents & Maps Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library in Honolulu, where she has been a librarian for 25 years. She received both a master’s degree in Library and Information Science and an MA in Geography from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her diverse interests are reflected in her publications and conference presentations, which have covered the Documents Expediting Project, World War II surplus disposal, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, presidential executive orders and proclamations, private laws, government secrecy, and aerial photography.  She is an adjunct instructor in the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library and Information Science Program.