Richard M. Cheski, 80, Ohio State Librarian for 17 years until his 1995 retirement, died November 20. Cheski led a variety of initiatives at the library, including the development of OhioLINK, replacing the card catalog with a computerized system shared with Ohio State University, development of the Ohio Shared Catalog, and formation of the SEO Consortium for shared circulation in 1986. He served as chair of the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies in 1989–1990; planned the Ohio conferences at the Second National White House Conference on Library and Information Services for Literacy, Productivity, and Democracy in 1997; and was one of the founding members of the Ohio Humanities Council in 1972.