Elizabeth Guiser, 87, former New York publishing executive and leader in publishing education, died October 8. She served as senior vice president of the book division for the R. R. Bowker Company and then senior vice president of business development for Gale Research Company of Detroit, Michigan, serving that company subsequently as a consultant. In 1976 she was one of the founders of the University of Denver Publishing Institute, an annual four-week immersion that she directed each summer until her retirement at the end of 2007. In 1988 she was inducted into the Publishing Hall of Fame.