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The 2001 recipient if the Hoduski Founders Award is Maryellen Trautman. The nomination letters highlighted Maryellen's government information service at all levels - state, regional, national and international - over a span of thirty years.

Maryellen Trautman served on the very first Depository Library Council, 1973 to 1976, while Regional Depository Librarian at the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. During her time at Oklahoma she initiated outreach and reference services for librarians, agency staff and the public. She had earlier worked as Legislative Reference Librarian in Oklahoma, providing legislative research and indexing all Oklahoma bills.

During her years in Oklahoma, Maryellen helped to organize 91´«Ã½'s Government Documents Round Table, helping to write the GODORT constitution and serving as the first secretary of the Federal Documents Task Force.

In 1979 Maryellen moved to the National Archives where she is still the U.S. Government Publications Librarian at the Archives Library Information Center. Referring to the move Maryellen said, "I was a government publications junkie for years; coming to Washington let me meet the people who write them." The Archives Library Information Center has a large and unique collection; much of Maryellen's day is spent in retrospective cataloging of government publications.

Elsewhere in Washington, Maryellen helped to organize the Documents Interest Group of the District of Columbia Library Association and throughout the years served as chair and secretary of that organization. She is currently the Executive Director of the Society for History in the Federal Government and has been active in the Society of American Archivists, the Special Library Association, and the IFLA Section on Government Information and Official Publications.

Maryellen Trautman is a true life-long champion of government information. Her nominators call her "an activist documents librarian" and "a devoted, concerned, and talented government documents librarian" who "effectively encouraged the use of federal documents in many ways by word and deed ..." She is a most deserving recipient of the 2001 91´«Ã½ GODORT Bernadine Abbott Hoduski Founders Award.