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December 31 Paul Kennie Garner, 62, librarian at Union Elementary, Shallotte Middle School, and Belville Elementary School in the Brunswick County (N.C.) Schools, died.
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January 16 Edith M. Dixon, 62, senior academic librarian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Memorial Library for more than 25 years, died.
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December 21 Thomas Brownfield, 81, former director of the Canal Fulton (Ohio) Public Library, died.
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December 5 Ricki V. Brown, 62, city librarian of Abilene (Tex.) Public Library, died.
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November 30 Janet Brown, 93, former chief of acquisitions for Binghamton (N.Y.) University’s Libraries, died.
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December 2 Jeanne Marie Aber, former head librarian at the O’Neill Library at Boston College, died.
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November 26, Elaine Mitchell, 89, former conference service coordinator for ALA’s Conference Services, died.
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November 9 Bohdan Stephan Wynar, 87, founder of publishing company Libraries Unlimited, died. Born in Ukraine, he emigrated to the US and earned an MLIS from the University of Denver, where he later taught. He authored many books in library science, including Introduction to Cataloging and Classification. He also created the renowned guide to reference works, American Reference Books Annual. Wynar received the Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award for his distinguished contributions to reference librarianship in 1977.
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October 2 Ann Wolpert, 70, director of libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 17 years, died.
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November 1 Anita Ladden Rudolf, 90, former head librarian at Norwalk (Conn.) High School, died.
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November 25 Sylvia Royt, a retired former ALA staff member, died. She was employed from 1969 to 1984 in ALA Publishing. Her last position was that of rights and permissions editor.
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October 29 Catherine Romanelli, 87, former director of Sachem Public Library in Holbrook, New York, died.