Donna Scheeder
Director, Law Library of Congress

Donna Scheeder is currently the director, Law Library Services, at the Law Library of the Library of Congress where she is a leader in providing a variety of information and collection services for the U.S. Congress, Courts, the Executive Branch agencies and the public.

She has lectured and conducted workshops in Japan, Brazil, and Australia on a variety of topics related to the management of legislative libraries and research services, and the competencies needed for legislative research librarians.

She has been active in SLA, serving as former president and treasurer, as well as an SLA fellow, and a recipient of the John Cotton Dana award for her contributions to special libraries. Ms. Scheeder is a member of the Governing Board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, is vice chair of the Professional Committee, and chairs the Standing Committee on Libraries and Research Services for Parliaments. She is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.