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Bernadine A. Abbott Hoduski was awarded the James Bennett Childs Award for "distinguished contributions to documents librarianship" on Tuesday, June 21 at the GODORT Business Meeting.

Ms. Hoduski is Special Library Assistant to the Joint Committee on Printing, U.S. Congress. Prior to this position, she was Head Librarian, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Kansas City, Missouri, and was also a Guest Lecturer, CMSU and University of Missouri/Kansas City Library Schools, 1965-1974.

She received her M.A. in Librarianship in 1965 from the University of Denver, Colorado. Ms. Hoduski was awarded the EPA Bronze Medal for Commendable Service in 1973. She is a member of the National Honor society and is listed in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, 1959. Several of her frequent contributions to the library literature include, "The Federal Depository System: What is its Basic Job?" in Drexel Library Quarterly, April 1974; "Federal Libraries and Intellectual Freedom," chapter in the Intellectual Freedom Manual, Office for Intellectual Freedom, 1974, and "Government Documents--Organization in a Federal Library," in Proceedings of the Federal Library Workship, 1973, Denver, Colorado. She is a member of the the Editorial Boards of Index to U.S. Government Periodicals and Government Publications Review and she was co-editor of Documents to the People from 1972-73.

The Government Documents Round Table was founded by Bernadine Hoduski in 1972. She is also a member of the District of Columbia Library Association, National Association of Government Communicators, Federal of Information Users, and Hangups on Government Information.

DttP v. 5, no. 5, p. 151.