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Maryellen Trautman

The great government documents librarian Maryellen Trautman died on November 17, 2024. She was a pioneer and a protector of government documents as a regional depository librarian in Oklahoma and as a government documents librarian at the National Archives and Records Administration. She was one of the founders of the American Library Association Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) in 1972. Among her many other accomplishments, she served on the Congressional Joint Committee on Printing’s Serial Set Committee where she supported the preservation of the Serial Set.

Maryellen Trautman Obituary.

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