91´«Ã½

The 1995 recipient of the Bernadine Abbott Hoduski Founders Award is Dorothy Butch of the New York State Library. Dorothy Butch has worked for the New York State Library for thirty years. She is best known as the author of the definitive work of New York State Documents, New York State Documents: An Introductory Manual. She also created the New York State classification system which is used by many New York State documents depository libraries and is included in OCLC records. She supervised the New York State Library's transition from Dewey to the Superintendent of Documents classification system for Federal documents and she oversaw the loading of GPO cataloging records into the library's catalog thus providing online access to the Regional Federal Depository collection for the State of New York.

by Jan Swanbeck, published in DttP, v.23, no.2 (June 1995)