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                            ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES

            Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program



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                             December 15, 2002
                             GP 3.16/3-2:23/15
                             (Vol. 23, no. 15)

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                    Bruce R. James Is New Public Printer

Bruce R. James, 60, of Crystal Bay, Nevada, became the 24th Public Printer
in the 141-year history of United States Government Printing Office on
November 26, 2002, when President Bush signed his commission.

James, a 1964 graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology's School of
Printing Management and Sciences, brings a lifetime of print and
information industry experience to the GPO. Beginning with a basement
printshop in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio at age 11, he founded,
developed and managed technology-driven printing and publishing enterprises
that operated throughout the country and the world. One of the firms, San
Francisco-based Barclays Law Publishers, was selected for four consecutive
years by Inc. Magazine as one of the Nation's 500 fastest growing
companies.

In 1993, at age 50, he retired from business and moved with his wife, Nora,
to Lake Tahoe in Nevada, to devote his life to public service in the
government and non-profit sectors. Resigning from 13 boards to accept the
GPO post, he will remain chairman of the Board of Trustees of his alma
mater, Rochester Institute of Technology, one of the Nation's largest
private universities, and trustee of Sierra Nevada College, Nevada's only
private, non-profit, residential college.