Helen Ives, 78, librarian at American University in Washington, D.C., until retiring in 2003, died September 14. Ives began her career as a librarian at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, and then served as a librarian at University of Pittsburgh. In 1998, she was an ALA International Relations Office library fellow, spending four months at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, helping to establish a model American reference library.