ALIA West

October 2005

Dr L. Anne Clyde (Laurel Anne)

MA, DipEd, PhD, ALAA, FCLIP, MACE

Dr Anne Clyde was professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at the University of Iceland, and adjunct professor within the School of Computer and Information Science at Edith Cowan University.

In Australia, Dr Clyde held academic positions in three states, as lecturer in school librarianship at Townsville College of Advanced Education (now part of the James Cook University of North Queensland); as lecturer in librarianship at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga; and as senior lecturer and head of the Department of Library and Information Studies, as it then was, at Edith Cowan University. In 1990 she accepted an appointment as a visiting faculty member at the University of Iceland for a year, then in 1991 moved to the University of British Columbia in Canada as associate professor with responsibility for teacher librarianship programmes. After two years in Canada, she returned to Iceland. She was also visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Management at the University of Western Australia in 1996 and 1999.

Professor Clyde's research interests related to the use of the internet and online information services in a range of settings, investigating the ways in which they are understood and measured. She also studied the characteristics of research and researchers in the field of school librarianship.

Her most recent books were Weblogs and libraries (2004) and An introduction to the internet (1994, twelfth edition 2004). She wrote a regular column on InfoTech for the North American journal Teacher librarian and was webmaster for the International Association of School Librarianship.

The information above was taken from Anne's own website.

Anne championed all sectors of our profession: librarians, teacher librarians and library technicians and worked hard to develop a research culture in librarianship. She was mentor and friend to many colleagues around the world who will miss her personally as well as professionally. A great communicator she inspired many individuals and worked as a catalyst for change and forward thinking in the profession. She will be sorely missed, both professionally and personally by all who knew her or were influenced by her.

Karen Anderson, Edith Cowan

There will be a memorial service at 5:00pm on 18 October, 2005 at St George's Cathedral in Perth Western Australia for Dr L. Anne Clyde. All are very welcome to attend. Please join us to remember Anne and to celebrate her life and the wonderful contribution she made to our profession. St George's Cathedral is at 38 St George's Terrace, Perth, opposite the Perth City Council building.