Obituaries
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Jean-Barry Molz, 95, director of public services at Baltimore County (Md.) Public Library for 33 years until retiring in 1996, died November 22. She provided leadership at the library as it expanded from 10 to 24 branches, instituted face-out shelving and flexible floor arrangements, and implemented a computerized card catalog. Molz also served for 13 years at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.
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Catherine Ann Liptak, 90, longtime reference librarian and director at Virginia (Minn.) Public Library until her retirement in 1993, died August 7. Liptak was an ALA member for 62 years.
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Marvin Kierstead, 84, librarian at the law firm Wiley Rein from the mid-1980s until retiring in 1995, died December 31.
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Anne R. Kenney, 72, university librarian emerita at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, died February 5. Kenney was a recipient of ALA’s Hugh C. Atkinson Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in library automation or management, in 2014. In her 30 years at Cornell, she earned a reputation as a digitization pioneer, developing standards that were widely adopted starting in the 1990s. She coauthored three books on preservation and digitization, published more than 50 articles and reports, and was a regular speaker on digital imaging and preservation.