Laurel Anne Clyde (7 February 1946 – 18 September 2005) was an Australian educator,

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, author and academic who taught in colleges and universities in

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and

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, as well as in

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. She was known for her expertise in electronic resources and the Internet. Anne was also influential in the early adoption and evaluation of internet sites and online tools by teacher librarians.

Early life

Anne Clyde was born in

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, New South Wales on 7 February 1946.

Career

Anne began her career as a teacher and librarian at the New South Wales Department of Education from 1967 to 1973. 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 James Cook University (JCU) is a public university in North Queensland, Australia. The second oldest university in Queensland, JCU is a teaching and research institution. The university's main campuses are located in the tropical cities of Cairn ...

of North Queensland); as lecturer in librarianship at

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, Wagga Wagga; and as senior lecturer and head of the Department of Library and Information Studies, as it then was, at

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. In 1990 she accepted an appointment as a visiting faculty member at the

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for a year, then in 1991 moved to the

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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

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in 1996 and 1999 and consulted in Latin America, Botswana and Namibia. Anne wrote a regular column on InfoTech for the North American journal ''Teacher librarian'' and was the webmaster for the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) from 1995 to her passing in September 2005. She introduced many teacher librarians around the world to emerging online resources through the "site of the week". From 2003–05, Anne held the position of Chair of the Standing Section for School Libraries and Resource Centres for the

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(IFLA).

Research interests

Anne Clyde's doctorate in 1981 from James Cook University was a survey of the history of school libraries. Her research interests included the use of the internet and online information services in a range of library and educational 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. She wrote many scholarly papers, presentations and articles on social networking including ''Weblogs and Libraries'' which was the first scholarly work on the topic.

Works

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Death

Anne suffered a fatal

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in Reykjavik, Iceland on Sunday, September 18, 2005. A memorial service was held on 18 October 2005 at St George's Cathedral in

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, Western Australia and her ashes were scattered at

Þingvellir Þingvellir (, anglicised as ThingvellirThe spelling ''Pingvellir'' is sometimes seen, although the letter "p" is unrelated to the letter "þ" (thorn), which is pronounced as "th".) was the site of the Alþing, the annual parliament of Iceland ...

on the site of the first Icelandic Parliament.

Memorials

* The ''Dr. Laurel Anne Clyde Memorial Keynote Address'' at the Australian School Library Association (ASLA) Biennial Conference * The

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, Academic and Research Libraries group in

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maintains the ''Ann Clyde Memorial Prize'' in her memory. * The International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) developed the Dr Anne Clyde Research Memorial Fund for research and development in the field of school librarianship.