Catherine Sheldrick Ross, 75, dean of what is now the Faculty of Informa- tion and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario from 1996 to 1998 during its formation, and again from 2000 to 2007, died September 11. Ross was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2018. She coauthored scholarly works, including Reading Still Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community and Conducting the Reference Interview: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians. She also wrote four children’s books.