Obituaries
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Lynn Phillips, 38, librarian at Skyline Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, died May 26 from cancer. She was also a volunteer for the Missouri Association of School Librarians’ Show Me Readers Award Committee helping to identify new higher-quality literature for young readers.
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Gordon A. Gaskill, 87, retired head librarian at Waltham (Mass.) Public Library, died May 24.
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Jackie Faust-Moreno, 63, director of library and museum services at Arcadia (Calif.) Public Library, died following a heart attack she suffered at work days before.
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Jean E. Baranyar, 80, former librarian at at Fairfield (Conn.) University, died May 31. She also worked as a librarian at the University of Notre Dame (Ind.)
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Sarah K. Vann, 96, professor emerita of the University of Hawaii’s Library and Information Science Program in Honolulu, died May 25. She was a widely recognized authority in library history and international librarianship and a master teacher in library education. Vann also taught at Carnegie Library School of Pittsburgh, then at Columbia University and University of Texas at Austin. She was instrumental in establishing library schools at the State University of New York in Buffalo as well as overseas in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Pakistan. Her publications on Melvil Dewey and his contributions to librarianship as well as her extensive study of the Charles Williamson reports are considered enduring and seminal works providing detailed and scholarly commentary on the pre-Williamson and Williamson era of library service and library education.
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Marybelle Singer, 90, former librarian at Alburgh (Vt.) Library, died May 22 from complications of a stroke. She is credited with bringing more books and people to the library.
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Erica Barditch Lilly, 50, associate professor at Kent (Ohio) State University Libraries, died May 22 from cancer.
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Lillian Butler Lang, 82, English professor emeritus at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, and former high school librarian, died May 10 of cancer. She received the Alice Admire Outstanding Teaching Award from Fort Lewis in 1979.
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Jane Hall, 67, retired library director of Montana State University (MSU) Billings, died May 28 of cancer. In addition to devoting her working hours to helping students and the library, she volunteered many hours raising money for the MSU Billings Foundation, served on the foundation board, and co-chaired for two years, with her husband, the Wine and Food Festival that supported student scholarships. As her retirement gift, the British-born Howell donated a bright red British phone to the library.
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Gordon Ernst, 52, research librarian at West Virginia University in Morgantown, died May 14.
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Virginia Deputy Marshall, 85, retired director of Lewes (Del.) Public Library, died May 11. She founded the Friends of the Lewes Public Library—an organization that was instrumental in acquiring the land and constructing the building that now houses the library. While she was town librarian, Marshall also worked for a number of years as assistant librarian at Shields Elementary School.
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Marianne Teresa Malinowski, 55, library collection coordinator at Ames (Iowa) Public Library, died April 14.