Mary Jo Lynch, 80, director of the ALA Office for Research and Statistics from 1976-2003, died February 26. In 1994, she received the Rutgers School of Communication and Information and Library Studies’ Distinguished Alumna of the Year Award. Prior to joining ALA, she was a reference librarian at University of Detroit (now University of Detroit Mercy) and University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and an assistant professor in the University of Michigan’s School of Llbrary Science.