This series covers documents from Ms. Bates’s time as a cataloging librarian at the Government Printing Office. It includes her resume and federal Personal Qualifications Statements forms, some correspondence and job assessments, and reports on her work at the GPO.

Besides these records, this series also covers two Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cases that Ms. Bates was a part of while working at the GPO. In the first one, from 1993-1994, a group of deaf GPO employees complained that the GPO was providing them with an unqualified interpreter, impairing their ability to participate in meetings, workshops, and other events. In the second, circa 1992-1994, Ms. Bates was passed over for a promotion, and felt that she had lost out to a less qualified applicant on the basis of her age and disability. Documents include correspondence, complaint forms, legal filings (including material from the National Center for Law and Deafness), and an investigator’s report on Ms. Bates’s discrimination claim.