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There are two recipients of the 2003 Bernadine Abbott Hoduski Founders Award. They are Margaret Mooney, Head of the Government Documents Department at the University of California, Riverside and John Phillips, Documents Department head at Oklahoma State University. The Hoduski Award recognizes a documents librarian who may not be known at the national level but who have made significant contributions to the field of state, international, local, or federal documents. This award recognizes those whose contributions have benefited not only the individual's institution but also the profession.

In presenting Margaret Mooney with this award, GODORT recognizes her pioneering work in automating the check-in process for U.S. Depository materials, and her major role in developing INFOMINE, one of the first library-originated Web-based information services.

Beginning in 1984, Margaret developed a dBASE program to convert the GPO's depository item numbers (on 3x5 index cards) and her institution's selections to a machine-readable file. She shared this information with the depository library community, offering to share the program. She next developed an in-house GPO tape extracting program that used the SuDoc number as the matching element to extract records from the GPO tapes. In 1992, she created a completely automated documents processing program called USDOCS, a dBASE program that fully automated the check-in of depository shipments. The USDOCS program enabled titles to be put on the shelf very quickly with a minimum of staff time. Again, Margaret generously made this program freely available to any and all requestors. The USDOCS program has been used by a number of libraries, beginning with the Oregon State Library. Some libraries combined the USDOCS program with other software programs to convert their shelflists to MARC records. Margaret assisted many of the libraries in adapting the program to meet their specific needs. In her own library, Margaret used the USDOCS program to create a public access catalog for government information titles, and to extract full records from GPO cataloging to provide bibliographic records for the local catalog and the UC Union Catalog, MELVYL.

Margaret's research identifying the average time frame for the appearance of GPO cataloging records, and her study that concluded that a SuDocs number match was the most effective means of matching library holdings to cataloging tapes, were extremely helpful to libraries beginning conversion projects.

Finally, Margaret is the coordinator and managing editor of the award-winning INFOMINE. In 1994, to fill the need for a focused index to electronic government information, Margaret created a web-based virtual library of government information sources with annotations and indexing terminology. Margaret's creative vision, as well as her beginning database, became the basis of INFOMINE, created as separate subject databases and then merged into one database. INFOMINE now includes more than a hundred thousand entries listing Internet resources in twelve different categories. Federal, foreign and international government information sites form the third-largest category. INFOMINE has grown beyond the UC Riverside library to include contributors from a number of academic institutions.

Margaret Mooney's many contributions to government information processing and accessing have had an impact far beyond her local institution, providing many libraries with the tools needed to enhance access to their collections, and developing one of the largest library-developed information portals in the world.