Remembering Allyson Carlye’s lifelong work as a cataloger through her 2010 appearance in the iSchool’s “Librarians Do Gaga” video.
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April 24, 2020 at 5:40 pm
My dear, dear friend Allyson Carlyle died recently of a brain tumor. We had similar interests and sensibilities with respect to cataloging and a host of other issues. During my six years in the PhD program in library and information science at UCLA 1986-92, Allyson and I were practically inseparable. In 1987 the two of us helped design our own PhD seminar with Elaine Svenonius on classification theory and both felt it was one of the best courses we had ever taken.
Allyson arranged for me to rent the sweet little bungalow adjacent to hers in Silverlake for my second 3 yrs in LA. We gave each other keys to our houses. Allyson also had a key to the car, and I gave her the car when I left LA.
(You can contact me at deeamichel@comcast.net.)
As new faculty members, Allyson and I both taught cataloging and organization of information, and shared syllabi and assignments. When Allyson got her dream job on the faculty of the library school at the University of Washington, I accompanied her driving cross country from Kent, OH to Seattle. After I had trouble getting an article about the guidance superstructure of libraries published, Allyson offered to rework it for publication. Every few years we talked about this collaboration, but never got around to doing it. Sadly, that won’t happen now.
A longer reminiscence with photos is on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/dee.michel.73 or available via email.
Allyson arranged for me to rent the sweet little bungalow adjacent to hers in Silverlake for my second 3 yrs in LA. We gave each other keys to our houses. Allyson also had a key to the car, and I gave her the car when I left LA.
(You can contact me at deeamichel@comcast.net.)
As new faculty members, Allyson and I both taught cataloging and organization of information, and shared syllabi and assignments. When Allyson got her dream job on the faculty of the library school at the University of Washington, I accompanied her driving cross country from Kent, OH to Seattle. After I had trouble getting an article about the guidance superstructure of libraries published, Allyson offered to rework it for publication. Every few years we talked about this collaboration, but never got around to doing it. Sadly, that won’t happen now.
A longer reminiscence with photos is on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/dee.michel.73 or available via email.