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I am very sorry to have to inform you that one of our most active IASL members has died suddenly. With great sadness, I must tell you that Dr. Anne Clyde had a heart attack on Sunday, September 18, 2005 and died.

I spoke on the phone to Sigrún Klara Hannesdóttir in Iceland today. She explained that Anne suffered a heart attack on Sunday morning near here home in Reykjavík. Even with immediate medical services, she was not able to survive. Anne's sister, who lives in Tasmania, has been notified. There will be a Memorial Service in Iceland next week, but I do not yet have specific details. Sigrún Klara Hannesdóttir will keep us informed.

Anne was the IASL Webmaster. She designed and maintained the IASL website, School Libraries Online, for over a decade. Anne also started the first IASL-LINK listserv that was once housed on the University of Iceland server. Anne had recently completed a sabbatical and had returned to her position as Head of the Library Program at the University of Iceland. Anne was also the Chair of the IFLA Section for School Libraries and Resource Centers. Anne's other contributions to the field of school librarianship are countless.

Anne will be greatly missed around the world and especially by her colleagues here in IASL. I am sure that we will think of an appropriate way to develop a memorial to Anne. Let us give thanks to Anne and all she has done for IASL. I strongly encourage you to post your memories of Anne to IASL-LINK. I am sure she would really like to be remembered… electronically.

In Sorrow,
Peter Genco
Erie, PA, USA
President
International Association of School Librarianship

From Alex Byrne, IFLA President
as posted IFLA-L on 20.September.2005

Dear Colleagues

I am very sorry to advise you that a great friend and colleague to many of us in IFLA and the library and information profession, Professor L Anne Clyde, died suddenly a couple of days ago in Reykjavik. It is a most untimely loss of an outstanding library educator, vigorous proponent for school libraries and strong IFLA supporter.

Anne Clyde was the 2003-2007 Chair of the IFLA Section of School Libraries and Resource Centres and Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at the University of Iceland, an Associate of the Australian Library and Information Association, a Fellow of CILIP and a Member of the Australian College of Educators. In an outstanding academic career, Anne held academic positions in three Australian states, at the University of British Columbia in Canada and at the University of Iceland. She has taught and researched in many other places in Australia and Iceland and beyond, including projects in North America, Europe and Namibia. Her extensive list of publications includes Weblogs and Libraries (2004), An Introduction to the Internet (1994, twelfth edition 2004), Managing InfoTech in School Library Media Centers (1999), School Libraries and the Electronic Community: The Internet Connection (1997), and Computer Applications in Libraries (1993).

Anne's work has spanned many aspects of the library and information field, especially school librarianship where she has made an extensive and notable contribution. Besides her leadership in the IFLA Section of School Libraries and Resource Centres, Anne has contributed enormously to the International Association of School Librarianship for which she was most recently Webmaster.

I know that I speak for many, many colleagues throughout the world in expressing our great sadness at losing Anne and our gratitude for the ways in which she has enriched our lives. We join with her family, friends, colleagues and students in mourning Anne and in celebrating her achievements. We should lift a glass of good wine to her, as she would have liked us to do.

With best wishes
Dr Alex Byrne
Sydney, Australia
President
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

From Peter Genco, IASL President
as posted IASL-LINK on 24.September.2005

Greetings IASL Members,

I have been impressed and overwhelmed by the wide variety of messages that have appeared around the world in IASL-LINK, listservs, blogs, email distribution lists, and other electronic means about Anne Clyde. A tribute to Anne will soon appear at the IASL website, School Libraries Online, and will include some of these messages.

The service for Anne will be held in Reykjavík on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 11 AM (Icelandic time). I would like to recommend that her colleagues worldwide observe a moment of silence at 11 AM (Icelandic time) in her honor. In order to determine exactly what time that would be for you, please check the The World Clock - Times Zones for Reykjavík.

[Note: Icelandic time = GMT]

Peter Genco
Erie, PA, USA
President
International Association of School Librarianship

From Karen Bonanno, ASLA Executive Officer
as posted IASL-LINK on 25.September.2005

On behalf of the Australian School Library Association (ASLA) I wish to extend our expression of sadness and loss at the passing of Dr Anne Clyde.

As indicated in a message from Ross Todd, Anne was involved in library schools for quite an extensive period of time in Australia in New South Wales and later in Western Australia.

As a teacher librarian Anne had worked in the Australian states of Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia.

As Head of the Department of Library and Information Studies at the Western Australian College of Advanced Education Anne, in her usual style, wrote a report on a conference she had attended in 1987. This report appeared in the ASLA national journal, ACCESS, in 1998. (The national journal commenced in 1987). From that point on, Anne provided articles in a regular feature section - Computers in School Libraries - for quite a number of years. When she was on leave for six months (around 1990) teaching in the library school at the University of Iceland, Anne continued to maintain her column on a regular basis. Anne also provided us with reviews of professional material.

Even when the column was discontinued Anne continued to write articles for our national journal, at least once a year. She also contributed to our national conferences, when she could, and her last contribution was for the ASLA Online I in 2004.

She was to be back in Queensland during October this year as a keynote speaker for the Evidence Based Practice conference hosted by the Australian Library and Information Association.

ASLA would also like to acknowledge Anne's significant contribution to teacher librarianship, especially in Australia, and is currently considering the most appropriate way to do this in memory of Anne.

Kind regards
Karen Bonanno
Zillmere, QLD, Australia
Executive Officer
Australian School Library Association

Last updated 26 September 2005 (OV)

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