GODORT Pioneer Lois P. Mills Dies
Staff -- Library Journal, 1/15/2001
Lois P. Mills, a longtime librarian and one of the founding members of the American Library Association's Government Documents Round Table (GODORT), died December 6, 2000. She was 83. Mills began her career as a librarian in 1954 at Western Illinois University (WIU), Macomb, after teaching high school English and physical education and serving in the U.S. Army Security Agency in the 1940s. She was named WIU's government documents librarian in 1968, a position she held for 19 years before retiring in 1987. In addition to helping establish GODORT, Mills performed a similar service for the Illinois Library Association. Her work in this field won her the CIS/GODORT/ALA Documents to the People Award in 1978, making her the second librarian so honored. In 1998, she received the James Bennet Childs Award for a lifetime of dedication to documents librarianship. She served a three-year term on the Depository Library Advisory Council to the Government Printer from 1978 to 1981 and testified before Congress on the public's right to information. She also served on numerous committees regarding academic freedom and the rights of minorities and women.
