"In some ways, Eric’s spirit is best expressed in the annual Feast of St. Jerome celebration [St. Jerome is the patron saint of librarians] that he started with a few other librarians...At Eric’s retirement, I created a mashup of a photograph of Eric with a St. Jerome portrait and titled it “St. Eric.” It was offered then in the spirit of fun; today it feels like it holds a fair bit of truth as well." --Randy Souther
Eric Paul Ewen (1944 -2020)
Read the full tribute to this librarian and his connection to St. Jerome at https://usfblogs.usfca.edu/gleeson-gleanings/2020/01/21/eric-ewen/
--Submitted by Randy Souther
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In honor of the Sesquicentennial (150th Anniversary of ALA) in 2026, the Library History Round Table is hosting Librarians We Have Lost, Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026. This collage of tributes seeks to honor librarians who died between 1976-2026. The tributes are published to ALA Connect, a digital memorial on LHRT News & Notes, and ALA's institutional repository (ALAIR).
We invite tributes from anyone about any library worker who passed away between 1976-2026. To submit a tribute, please use the form at https://lhrt.news/librarians-we-have-lost-sesquicentennial-memories-1976-2026-2/
For questions or comments, please reach out to Dr. Kathleen McCook (kmccook@usf.edu) or Brett Spencer (dbs21@psu.edu).
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Brett Spencer
Reference Librarian
Thun Library, Penn State Berks
He/Him/His
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