The big news in libraryland this week has been the passing away of Fred Kilgour, founder of OCLC. But the bigger news for me, personally, was finding out that an excellent librarian friend and colleague, Kathy Zar, died recently. Kathy was a librarian at The University of Chicago whose career there spanned close to 40 years. Since 1994, she was responsible for the library collections of the Science Division. She was a very gracious and professional person — she had warmth and kindness combined with a sharp acumen. She particularly took interest in mentoring others, and she made young, fresh-faced librarians such as myself feel welcome and appreciated. I spoke with some friends there who told me that she literally stayed on the job up ’til the very end.