Obituaries

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, Apr/May 2000

JEFFREY KATZER

Long-time ASIS member Jeffrey Katzer, professor and associate dean in the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, died Saturday, March 4. He was 58.

A member of the Syracuse University faculty since 1968, Katzer played a key role in positioning the School of Information Studies as a national leader in the information field. He helped develop and launch the school's undergraduate program in information management and technology - the first of it kind the country. He also built the school's Ph.D. program into a leading national program. He was twice appointed interim dean.

"The School of Information Studies and the information profession at-large are stunned by the loss of a colleague who had such a profound effect on us all," says Raymond von Dran, dean of the School of Information Studies. "Jeffrey was an inspired faculty leader and a gifted organizational developer."

In 1992, Katzer received the ASIS/ISI Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award. Katzer is survived by his wife Linda, and his children Andrew and Jill. The family asks that memorials be made to the doctoral student fund established in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University.

SHAOJUN LU

Shaojun Lu, assistant professor at the State University of New York, Oswego, died March 1 at his home in Oswego. He was 37: Known to many ASIS colleagues first as a doctoral student at UCLA, he moved on to the University of Iowa as a visiting professor before joining the SUNY Oswego faculty.

Prior to coming to the United States to pursue his now-completed doctoral studies at UCLA, Shaojun had a distinguished and productive career in the School of Library and Information Science at Wuhan University in China.

Surviving Shaojun are his fiancee, Zhaohui Yang, and his family in China.

A memorial Website has been created for Shaojun to allow his colleagues, students and friends to share information and remembrances about him. The site can be found at http://dlis:gseis.ucla.edu/Shaojun Lu. Messages can be posted to the site by sending an email to David Cappoli at dcappoli@ucla.edu

Condolences may be sent to Ms. Yang at zhaohui-ang@hotmail.com or to Z. Yang, c/o

S. Lu, 29 Birch Lane, #20C, Oswego, NY 13126.