Carmela Marie Ruby, 84, died August 14. Ruby was president of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) from 1980–1981. She earned her MLIS at UCLA and taught at UC Berkeley, Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and Loyola University in Chicago. Ruby worked at UC Davis’s library, California State Library, and New Mexico State Library, and designed and launched the California Literacy Campaign. She was an advocate for services to the disabled and institutionalized, and for distance education for rural areas and for libraries in Mexico and Nicaragua. Ruby also coordinated the Sacramento Poetry Center’s weekly poetry workshop and served on the board of California Friends of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.