Ricky Erway, 62, senior program officer at OCLC Research until her 2015 retirement, died January 25. Erway began her library career as an instructional materials librarian at University of Wisconsin but became a leader in digital library technologies when she joined a Library of Congress (LC) team evaluating its optical disk project in 1986. At LC, she eventually became associate coordinator of American Memory, a project that increased public access to LC special collections and that demonstrated that film, video, audio recordings, books, and photographs could be digitized. In 1995, she became digital resources manager at RLG, a research libraries collaborative, leading projects like Studies in Scarlet, which demonstrated the benefits of collaborative digitization initiatives, and the Art Museum Image Consortium Library, an early effort to deliver high-quality pictures of museum objects online. She continued working to advance library digitization when RLG merged with OCLC in 2006, producing reports like Shifting Gears to advance primary source digitization and the Demystifying Born Digital series.