Obituaries
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Glenda Vivian Bailey Temple, 85, acquisition librarian at Dixie College in St. George, Utah from 1972 until her retirement in 1991, died October 11.
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Ottone Riccio, 90, who formerly served as circulation and acquisitions librarian for the Air Force's Geophysical Research Library at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts, died September 23. During the 1960's and 70's, he published a literary magazine called Pyramid.
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Joyce Tukloff, 58, children's librarian for 31 years at Franklin County (Va.) Public Library, died October 15.
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Richard Landon, 68, who held numerous positions at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, died October 5. During his career, he was the director of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book library, professor in the Graduate Department of English, and adjunct professor of the Faculty of Information.
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Jonas Balys, 102, died September 9. He served as director of the Lithuanian Folklore Archives from 1935 until 1944. Beginning in 1956, he worked at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. for 25 years .
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Martha Jo Sani, 76, senior instructor emerita and reference librarian in the College of Business Library at Colorado University in Boulder from 1981 until 2001, died October 7.
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Alan Willis, 63, reference librarian for 20 years at Naperville (Ill.) Public Library, died October 1 after a three-year battle with cancer.
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Bobbie Fells, 58, acquisition librarian for 22 years at Alcorn State (Miss.) University, died September 11.
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Jule Fosbender, 79, who retired after 34 years of service from the Adrian (Mich.) Public Library in 2006, died October 7. She had previously worked as head librarian for the Tecumseh (Mich.) District Library from 1954 to 1967. She served as past president and treasurer of the Michigan Library Association.
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Scott Fisher, 55, died September 9. In 1980, Scott taught and was a librarian for the West Long Branch (N. J.) Board of Education. In 1982 he became director of library services at the Law Firm of Robinson, St. John & Wayne in Newark, New Jersey. In 1996 he took the same position at Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer in Newark until 2006, and then at McCarter & English, LLP, in Newark until his death. Scott was a member of a number of associations including the American Association of Law Libraries and the American Library Association.
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Jan Merrill-Oldham, 64, Malloy-Rabinowitz preservation librarian at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1995 to 2010, died October 5.
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Sharon St. Hilaire, 57, director of Seekonk (Mass.) Public Library for 34 years, died September 27.