Nettie B. Taylor, 102, who was elected an ALA Honorary Member in 2005, died October 21. Taylor’s career spanned nearly seven decades. She spent 40 years with the Maryland State Department of Education, where she worked to evolve small community libraries into county public library systems, strengthened resource sharing through the Maryland State Library Network, and led the formation of three regional libraries to provide support services and collections for rural libraries. She was part of the planning teams for the 1979 and 1991 White House Conferences on Library and Information Services and served on the task forces to implement recommendations from both conferences. She lobbied for library funding on both the federal and state levels, working for the first national Library Services Act in 1956 and the Library Services and Construction Act in 1962, and lobbying the Maryland General Assembly to establish a per capita funding formula for public libraries. Taylor was a founding member of the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies, founding member and president of ALA’s Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange Round Table, a president of ALA’s Association for Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies, and an ALA councilor. In addition to ALA Honorary Membership, her honors include the Joseph W. Lippincott Award for distinguished service to librarianship and the Maryland Library Association Distinguished Service Award.