Robert Sandusky, associate professor, associate university librarian, and associate dean for information technology at University of Illinois at Chicago
(UIC), died April 10. During his tenure at UIC, Sandusky led major technology efforts for the University Library and the Explore Chicago Collections portal of the Chicago Collections regional consortium. He served on UIC’s Faculty Senate and chaired the Senate Support Services Committee. He was also appointed
to the Research Committee of the IT Governance Council and served as chair of the Institutional Stewardship of Research Data Subcommittee. Sandusky was engaged nationally in the National Science Foundation-funded DataONE: Data Observation Network for Earth project. He was a co-investigator and member of the Core Cyberinfrastructure Team (2007-2014), a member of the Usability and Assessment Working Group, and cochair of the Data ONE Users Group. Before joining UIC in 2007, Sandusky was assistant professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s School oflnformation Sciences. He received his PhD in library and information science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.