Everett Wilkie, 73, head librarian of the Connecticut Historical Society until his 1997 retirement, died December 23. He previously served as bibliographer at Brown University’s John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, and reference librarian at Indiana University’s Lilly Library in Bloomington. Wilkie produced several descriptive bibliographies and research works on French Americana during his library career and in retirement as an independent scholar. He was active in the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, chairing its Security Committee for almost 20 years and serving as section liaison to ACRL’s Standards and Accreditation Committee for at least a decade.