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Thomas F. Staley, 86, director of the Harry Ransom Center at University of Texas at Austin for 25 years until retiring in 2013, died March 29. As director, he pursued the acquisition of notable archives, including the papers of Norman Mailer, Doris Lessing, Tom Stoppard, James Joyce’s translator Stuart Gilbert, and the Watergate papers of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Prior to joining the Harry Ransom Center, Staley acquired literary collections for University of Tulsa’s McFarlin Library.

Ross J. Todd, 70, associate professor of library and information science at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information in New Brunswick, New Jersey, died March 30. A faculty member for more than 21 years, he was research director for the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries and served as chair of the Department of Library and Information Science from 2014 to 2018. Todd published regularly in numerous journals, particularly on information literacy and information-seeking behavior, school libraries as pedagogical centers, the impact of school libraries on student learning, and evidence-based practice for information professionals. He previously taught library and information science at University of Technology Sydney in Australia.

LeMoyne “Lee” W. Anderson, 98, director of libraries at Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins from 1957 to 1985, died February 18. During his tenure at CSU, Anderson led the construction of Morgan Library in the 1960s, expanded the collection from 200,000 books to 1.3 million books, and quadrupled the library staff. He was also responsible for librarians’ faculty status at the university. Anderson served as president of the Association of Research Libraries in 1979. Prior to joining CSU, he held positions at Iowa State University in Ames and University of Illinois Chicago.

Suzanne Sherwood Cane, 75, lower school librarian at the Lincoln School in Providence, Rhode Island, for 25 years until her 2000 retirement, died March 29. She previously served as librarian at the Inter-Community School outside of Zurich, Switzerland.

Janice B. Cronkhite, 87, head librarian at Weller Public Library in Waitsburg, Washington, until her 2012 retirement, died March 26. She also served as a librarian at Walla Walla (Wash.) Public Library and Lewiston (Idaho) City Library.