Research Information Services
As part of our work to expand the frontier of economic knowledge, the St. Louis Fed provides many research-related public information services—including data services, tools for educators and librarians, and curation of Federal Reserve history.
FRED®: A trusted source for economic data. Our FRED data service is used worldwide by millions of people. Updated daily, FRED allows free, 24/7 access to hundreds of thousands of financial and economic data series from over 100 public and proprietary sources. An array of tools lets you graph, map, store, and better understand data.
History made accessible. Our commitment to preserving and providing transparent access to U.S. economic history includes:
- FRASER®, a unique digital library of more than half a million historical data, research, and policy documents on economic, financial and banking history.
- FederalReserveHistory.org, a gateway to history for educators, students, and the general public. It makes the vast amount of material about the Fed more findable and easier to understand.
- Fed in Print, the central online catalog of Fed publications. Librarians in our Homer Jones Memorial Research Library maintain Fed in Print.
Research Information Services Staff
These key St. Louis Fed contacts support both the general public and our economists in the areas of data, information services, and publications.
Pamela Campbell
Digital Projects Librarian and Bank Archivist
Pamela.D.Campbell@stls.frb.org
Campbell works to facilitate and promote preservation and use of historical materials from across the Federal Reserve System by serving as the St. Louis Fed’s archivist and supporting FRASER, the digital library of economic and business history.
Education: M.A., Information Science & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri-Columbia; B.A., Music, Truman State University
Featured works:
- Building the Toolbox: Browser Extensions and Shortcuts for Archivists (with Jona Whipple), Archives*Records Conference 2023: the Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and the Society of American Archivists, Washington, D.C., July 28, 2023
- Understanding the Fed: Public Documents and the Federal Reserve System (with Genevieve Podleski), Federal Depository Libraries Program webinar, May 24, 2023
- Providing Context for Digital Library Content (with Katrina Stierholz), in the Association for Computing Machinery Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, July 2013, pp. 415-416. doi.org/10.1145/2467696.2467768
Robert Manley
Digital Curation Librarian
Robert.Manley@stls.frb.org
In his role as a digital curation librarian, Manley supports FedPreserve—the internal digital preservation tool of the 12 Federal Reserve banks—and works to facilitate and promote digital preservation of historical materials from across the Federal Reserve System.
Education: M.A., History and Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis; B.F.A., Studio Art, Missouri State University
Featured works:
- Crafting Web Archiving Workflows with GitLab, Archive-It Virtual Partner Meeting, Nov. 2, 2022
- Saving Disk Data in Special Collections: Tools for Preserving Floppy Disks (with Liz Winters), All Libraries Symposium: Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, Mo., April 10, 2019
- In 100 years, Will Today's Digital Files Be Accessible? Planning for Digital Obsolescence, “St. Louis on the Air,” hosted by Don Marsh, St. Louis Public Radio, Aug. 2, 2017
- Mercantile Library Digital Reference Room, Digital History Showcase: Missouri Conference on History, St. Louis, Mo., March 12, 2015
- Frame of Reference: Installation and Conservation of Non-Traditional Materials, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Mo., March 22, 2014
Delaney McCoy
Associate Digital Projects Librarian
Delaney.McCoy@stls.frb.org
McCoy is responsible for the description of digital items and digitization of archival materials for FRASER, the St. Louis Fed’s digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history. Her other responsibilities include metadata standardization, the ingest and arrangement of digital materials, and outreach. Delaney also supports Federal Reserve History, a gateway to the history of the Federal Reserve for educators, students, and the general public.
Education: M.S., Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; B.A., Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago
Featured work:
- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Circulars: A Case Study of an Early Career Librarian’s Approach to a Full-Scale Digitization Project, University of San Diego Digital Initiatives Symposium, San Diego, Ca., April 29, 2024
Genevieve M. Podleski
Senior Digital History Librarian
Genevieve.M.Podleski@stls.frb.org
Podleski is a digital history specialist who supports FRASER and Federal Reserve History—collaborating with Research staff to improve the visibility, usability, and educational value of our websites. Prior to joining the Fed, Podleski worked in higher education public affairs.
Education: M.A., History, University of Missouri-St. Louis; M.S., Library and Information Science, Pratt Institute; B.S., Anthropology, and B.A., History, Washington University in St. Louis
Featured works:
- Understanding the Fed: Public Documents and the Federal Reserve System (with Pamela Campbell), Beyond the Numbers, Nov. 8, 2023
- Teaching Economics Using Primary Sources (with Stephen Day, Diego Mendez-Carbajo, and Scott Wolla), The Educator’s Handbook for Teaching with Primary Sources, Teachers College Press, 2023
- Federal Reserve Economic Data: A History (with Diego Mendez-Carbajo), The American Economist, 66:1, March 2021, 61-73
Jona Whipple
Digital History and Archives Coordinator
Jona.Whipple@stls.frb.org
Whipple is responsible for the development and coordination of the St. Louis Fed’s digital history and archives program. This includes FRASER, the digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history; Federal Reserve History, a gateway to the history of the Federal Reserve; and FedPreserve, the internal preservation program of the Federal Reserve System.
Education: M.L.I.S., San Jose State University; B.F.A. Fiction Writing, Columbia College
Featured works:
- A Hundred Years of Technological Change at the Fed, St. Louis Fed Open Vault blog, Aug. 16, 2023
- Building the Toolbox: Browser Extensions and Shortcuts for Archivists (with Pamela Campbell), Society of American Archivists Archives*Records Conference 2023, Washington, D.C., July 28, 2023
- How We Served: The Fed during the World Wars, St. Louis Fed Open Vault blog, Nov. 9, 2022
- Inside the Monthly Labor Review: 107 Years of Historical Data (with Marie Concannon), Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) presentation, June 22, 2022
- Inside Baseball at the Federal Reserve Banks, St. Louis Fed Open Vault blog, July 20, 2022
Maria A. Arias
FRED Data Champion
Maria.A.Arias@stls.frb.org
Arias is a manager and business owner of the FRED Data Desk team in the Research division, where she oversees the development of the data update pipeline and the collection, processing, and publication of data found in FRED. She also helps lead FRED workshops for new and existing audiences to market new features and help users make the most of FRED. Arias previously worked on the FRED team as a senior data engineer and product owner of the Data Desk. Prior to joining the FRED team, she was a senior research associate, working alongside economists to analyze datasets on topics from regional employment to national growth. She has published research on metro area economic activity, as well as poverty and middle-income traps.
Education: M.A. Management & Leadership; B.A. Economics, Webster University
Featured works:
- Storytelling with FRED Data, A Mini Workshop, Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER) Fall Conference, October 2022
- Maria A. Arias, Charles S. Gascon, and David E Rapach, “Metro Business Cycles,” Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, 94(C), 90-108. doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2016.05.005
- Maria A. Arias and Yi Wen, “Relative Income Traps,” St. Louis Fed Review, First Quarter 2016, pp. 41-60. doi.org/10.20955/r.2016.41-60
Yvetta Fortova
FRED Product Manager
Yvetta.Fortova@stls.frb.org
Fortova is the product manager for FRED and friends, striving to provide a reliable resource for economic data and tools with timely, accurate and comprehensive information to enable informed decision-making. In addition, she leads and coordinates work across multiple development teams that support FRED and friends, FRASER, Federal Reserve History, and Fed in Print.
Education: M.B.A., Webster University, St. Louis; B.S., Economics, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Featured works:
- Taking FRED to the Next Level, Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER), Oct. 15, 2019
- Using FRED to Teach Monetary Policy and Basic Macro Topics, Midwest Economic Association Conference, March 16, 2019
- Have You Met FRED? St. Louis Fed Timely Topics Podcast, Jan. 24, 2018
Diego Mendez-Carbajo
FRED Economics Champion
Diego.Mendez-Carbajo@stls.frb.org
Mendez-Carbajo is a subject matter expert on FRED data. He leads outreach efforts to a broad range of FRED users and regularly contributes to the FRED Blog to tell the stories behind the data. Prior to his current role, Mendez-Carbajo was a college professor. His research on teaching and learning with data has been published in the leading field journals.
Education: Ph.D. Economics, Florida International University; M.A. Economics, Florida International University; B.A. Economics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Featured works:
- Choice of Data Visualization Tool: FRED or Spreadsheets? (with Alejandro Dellachiesa). International Review of Economics Education 4, November 2023, 100275. doi.org/10.1016/j.iree.2023.100275
- Diving into the Gap: Recognizing Gender Differences in an Online Learning Activity, (with Cynthia Harter). Eastern Economic Journal, 50:1, September 2023. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41302-023-00258-x
- Data Citations and Reproducibility in the Undergraduate Curriculum, (with Alejandro Dellachiesa). Harvard Data Science Review 5:3, July 2023. doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.c2835391
Anna Oates Schlaack
Product Owner
Anna.Oates@stls.frb.org
Oates Schlaack leads a web development team devoted to application modernization of the Research division’s websites, including FRED and friends. Prior to her current role, Oates Schlaack worked as a librarian and supported various efforts of the Research division, such as content discovery, collection management, research tracking, working paper publication, and the FRASER digital library.
Education: M.S., Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; B.A., English Literature, Western Carolina University
Featured works:
- Pipeline or Pipe Dream: Building a Scaled Automated Metadata Creation and Ingest Workflow Using Web Scraping Tools (with Matthew Krc), Code4Lib Journal, 58, Dec. 2023
- The Digital Object: A Complex Art of Discovery, Performance, and User Experience (with Aaron Collie, Matthew Krc, Julie Holdener, and Mark Murabayashi), presented at the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, Baltimore, Md., Oct. 11, 2022
- Macro Migration: Implementing a Cloud-Based Metadata Microservice with Fedora (with T. Ferguson, J. Holdener, M. Murabayashi), Code4Lib 2020, Pittsburg, Pa.
- The Case for a Standard That’s Old News: Recommendation of PDF/A for Digitized Newspaper Preservation (with W. Schlaack), iPRES 2019, 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation Conference, Amsterdam, September 2019
- Finding Old Images through a New Lens: Use of Computer Vision for Searching Historic Newspaper Collections (with W. Schlaack), 85th World Library and Information Congress of IFLA, Athens, August 2019
Mary Clare Peate
Data Strategist
MaryClare.Peate@stls.frb.org
Peate develops and implements data-driven strategies for the Research Division. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve, she has had experience in the ed tech sector as a product owner, data specialist, and curriculum director. She is currently on the board of directors of the Journal of Economics Teaching.
Education: Ph.D., Economics, George Mason University; M.P.P., Public Policy, University of Chicago; M.A., Education, Loyola Marymount University; B.A., Economics, University of California, San Diego
Featured works:
- The Inflation Rate Is Falling, but Prices Are Not, Page One Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, March 2024
- Curriculum Lag Challenges and Strategies for LT Principles: Lessons from Closing the Monetary Policy Curriculum Gap (with Jane Ihrig and Scott Wolla), Journal of Economic Education, 2024, 55(2), 166–177. doi.org/10.1080/00220485.2024.2304896
- Why Are Some Social Media Sites Free to Use? Page One Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, May 2023
- What Is the Best Strategy for Paying Off Credit Card Debt? Page One Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, February 2023
- Using the Science of Learning To Teach Economics and Social Studies, Kentucky Teacher, April 11, 2022
Keith Taylor
Assistant Vice President and FRED Officer
Keith.G.Taylor@stls.frb.org
Taylor is responsible for FRED and family and provides the web strategy for the Research division’s web applications: FRASER, Econ Lowdown, Federal Reserve History, and Fed in Print. His work is at the intersection of economics, data, and technology: He informs and guides the efforts of the Research division business teams and technology staff to create a robust and layered experience for the public, combining the economic information, data, and educational materials produced by the St. Louis Fed. Taylor and his team have advised dozens of data-collection, governmental, and foreign institutions on best practices for data dissemination.
Education: J.D., Washington University School of Law, St. Louis; B.S., Business Administration and Economics, Elmhurst College
Mary Austin
Access and Acquisitions Librarian
Mary.Austin@stls.frb.org
Austin supports economic research at the St. Louis Fed through content discovery, collection management, and user support. She develops innovative solutions to provide seamless access to the library’s digital information resources. Before joining the Fed, she worked in descriptive metadata services, community programming, and outreach as a public librarian.
Education: M.S., Library Science, University of North Texas; B.A., Communication Sciences and Disorders, Harding University
Featured work:
- Ensuring Library Visibility in an Online World (with Katrina Stierholz), Eighth Central Bank and International Financial Institutions Conference, Bali, Indonesia, Nov. 15-17, 2023
Adrienne Brennecke
Library and Data Services Manager
Adrienne.J.Brennecke@stls.frb.org
Brennecke connects researchers and data professionals to the economic and financial data they need to produce authoritative, scholarly publications for the Federal Reserve. Since joining the St. Louis Fed in 2008, she has supported FRED and other Research division services as they have grown to serve millions of users. She navigates copyright and licensing issues, while identifying, acquiring, and answering questions about data resources. Adrienne leads the library team, which hosts the division’s Beyond the Numbers conference. She also plays a lead role in planning for a new Federal Statistical Research Data Center in St. Louis.
Education: M.A. Information Science and Learning Technologies, emphasis in Library Science, University of Missouri-Columbia; B.A., Art and Psychology, Cornell College
Featured works:
- Laying the Groundwork for a Federal Statistical Research Data Center, Academic BRASS, American Library Association, Spring 2019
- Laying the Groundwork for a Federal Statistical Research Data Center, Seventh Central Bank and International Financial Institutions Librarians' Conference, hosted virtually by the International Monetary Fund, Nov. 17, 2022
- Finding Licensed Data Resources: The User Experience, IASSIST Conference 2017, Lawrence, Kan., May 26, 2017
Scott St. Louis
Senior Librarian for Scholarly Communication and Discovery Services
Scott.StLouis@stls.frb.org
St. Louis is responsible for promoting the discoverability of Federal Reserve System research through management of the Fed in Print web application. He also helps ensure that the St. Louis Fed documents its impact on the field of economics by tracking research citations. Additional responsibilities include working paper publication, FRED user support, project management, daily news reporting, and various digital forms of research and analytical support.
Education: M.S., Information Science, University of Michigan; B.A., History, Grand Valley State University.
Featured works:
- Historic Coin Production and the US Mint, St. Louis Fed Inside FRASER blog, April 12, 2023
- Women and American Currency, St. Louis Fed Inside FRASER blog, June 8, 2022
- Coin Availability Disruptions, Past and Present, St. Louis Fed Inside FRASER blog, Dec. 10, 2021
- Stable Connections: Learning Digital Librarianship in the Age of Remote Instruction (with Leigh Clouse and Irmarie Fraticelli-Rodríguez), Presentation to Harvard Library staff, Aug. 12, 2020
- A 'Self-Made Town': Semi-Annual Furniture Expositions and the Development of Civic Identity in Grand Rapids, 1878-1965, Michigan Historical Review, Fall 2018
Katrina Stierholz
Group Vice President and Director of Library & Research Information Services
Katrina.L.Stierholz@stls.frb.org
Stierholz leads the St. Louis Fed’s Research Information Services teams, including the data engineers who make FRED internationally renowned; the librarians who create the FRASER digital library and the Federal Reserve History website; the educators who create curriculum for teachers in our economic education department; the editorial and publications team; and the Homer Jones Memorial Library. Together, these groups democratize access to economic data, education, and information.
Education: M.S., Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; M.L.A., Washington University in St. Louis; B.A., Political Science, Augustana College
Featured works:
- Considering Data Literacy using Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process: Implications for Librarians and Data Providers (with Charissa Jefferson, Kristin Fontichiaro, and Lynette Hoelter), Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 2020
- By the Numbers: Economic Data Revisions: What They Are and Where to Find Them, DttP: Documents to the People, 2017
- FRED, the St. Louis Fed’s Force of Data, St. Louis Fed Review, Second Quarter 2014
- As It Happened: Economic Data and Publications as Snapshots in Time (with Julie Knoll, Robert Rasche, and Rob Suriano), Federal Depository Library Conference, Washington, D.C., Oct. 19, 2004
George E. Fortier
Managing Editor
George.E.Fortier@stls.frb.org
Fortier is the manager of the Research publications group. Publications include Review, Page One Economics, FRED Blog, the monthly Research division newsletter, the briefing book, the board report, and a multitude of economic education material. He assesses and improves products, services, and content presented to internal and external audiences.
Education: M.F.A., University of Missouri-St. Louis; B.A., English, Boston College
Featured works:
- The Castaways Discover GDP Lesson (with Mary Suiter and Scott Wolla), St. Louis Fed, 2019
- Sparking Joy: Can Economists Help with Happiness? (with Christine Smith), St. Louis Fed Open Vault blog, June 5, 2019
- The Visible Hand: The Role of Government in China’s Long-Awaited Industrial Revolution (with Yi Wen), St. Louis Fed Review, Third Quarter, 2016