Information Tools

Specializations

  • Electronic Government
  • Gender Studies
  • Reference

Courses

  • LIS 526 - Government Information: Production And Access

Biography

Cass Hartnett serves as U.S. Documents Librarian at the University of Washington Libraries, a role she has held since 1997. She is the library liaison to the UW Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies department. She spent her earliest years as a government information librarian at the University of Michigan Library and the Detroit Public Library.

Courses:
LIS 526: Government Information: Production and Access
GWSS499: Feminism and Democracy in Iceland 2025 (teaching assistant to Dr. Cricket Keating)

Education

  • MLIS, University of Michigan School of Information
  • BA, English, Smith College

Awards

  • University of Washington Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Service Award, 2021
  • University of Washington Distinguished Librarian Award, 2016

Publications and Contributions

  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Cutting through the Fog: Government Information, Librarians, and the Forty-Fifth Presidency (2018)
    Reference & User Services Quarterly, 57(3), pp. 208-216 Authors: Cassandra Hartnett, Kian Flynn
  • Book, Textbook-Revised
    Fundamentals of Government Information: Mining, Finding, Evaluating and Using Government Resources, (2016)
    Authors: Cassandra Hartnett, Andrea L Sevetson, Eric J Forte
  • Report
    Government Information in the United States
    The Government Information Landscape and Libraries, IFLA Professional Reports: 137 Author: Cassandra Hartnett