Gail Steinhart is Research Data and Environmental Sciences librarian at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University. She is responsible for developing and supporting new services for collecting and archiving research data, and serves as a library liaison for environmental science activities at Cornell. She is a member of the working group that supports the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR), an online repository for GIS data for New York State, and an active node of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure. She holds M.S. degrees in Library and Information Science (Syracuse University) and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Cornell University).