William DeJohn, 72, former director of Minitex at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, died December 31 of pancreatic cancer. He retired in 2012 after 27 years at Minitex, a network of academic, public, state government, and special libraries. During his career, DeJohn also served as senior consultant, library cooperation, for the Illinois State Library–Library Development Group in Springfield, Illinois, and director of the Pacific Northwest Bibliographic Center at the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle. He was named Academic Librarian of the Year by the Minnesota Library Association in 2006.