Trudie Root received her Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from theUniversity of Michigan and is a librarian with a professional career covering 30 years. Trudieserved as the Librarian of the Army under the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1 at Army Headquarters administering the Army Library Program, the agency level office for planning, policy, oversight, and coordination of library functions and services for a network of nearly 200 academic, general(public), medical, legal, scientific/technical and special libraries. Trudie has also worked in academic, special, and public libraries in the Midwest and Florida. She served as an adjunct instructor for Catholic University in Washington, D.C. She now lives in Fort Lauderdale.