Mary Alice Baish is Superintendent of Documents at the U.S. Government Publishing Office. She is responsible for the agency’s statutorily mandated information dissemination programs. During her tenure at GPO, she has worked closely with the depository library community to strengthen GPO’s tools and services to better meet their needs and those of the American public. Prior to her current position, Baish was the Director of Government Relations for the American Association of Law Libraries and worked in academic and law libraries. She has long advocated for permanent public access to official government information and the need for its preservation for future generations.