Sharon Key, 56, interim assistant director at the Marianna branch of Jackson County (Fla.) Public Library, died February 2. Key was instrumental in bringing a new cataloging system online, organized a new library newsletter and a genealogy club at the library, and was involved in planning the library’s Black History Month events.
January 31 Marie Lydon retired after 45 years as reference librarian at Morrill Memorial Library in Norwood, Massachusetts.
In February Tania Sharpe became CEO/chief librarian at Chatham-Kent (Ontario) Public Library.
February 3 Cassandra Hunsucker became head librarian of the New Bern (N.C.) branch of Craven-Pamlico-Carteret Regional Libraries.
January 6 Colleen Barbus was promoted to program coordinator in the Public Programs Office.
February 14 Brad Mueller became assistant director of the Development Office.
In February Bill Ptacek became CEO of Calgary (Alberta) Public Library.
In February the University of Oxford (UK) Bodleian Libraries promoted Richard Ovenden to Bodley’s Librarian.
Ruth N. Arsem, 94, an information specialist and reference librarian who worked for the federal government for 29 years until her 1973 retirement from what is now the US Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland, died January 24.
Ruth P. Ronning, 86, longtime librarian/media specialist at Prescott School in Lincoln, Nebraska, died February 10. She had taught in schools in South Dakota, Ohio, and California before moving to Nebraska.
Jeannette Glynn, 86, died February 2 in Berkeley, California. Glynn founded Oakland (Calif.) Public Library’s Business and Government Library and published the original Who Knows Who: Networking Through the Corporate Boards. Her career also included stints at Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Library System, Inyo (Calif.) County Free Library, Alameda County (Calif.) Library, and Bank of America.
February 13 children’s librarian Melissa Messner left the County of Los Angeles Public Library’s Manhattan Beach branch after 14 years of service.
