Many of us at Project MUSE knew Birdie and are greatly saddened to hear the tragic news.
I knew birdie as a Romance languages selector; Liz Brown remembers her as a titan in the serials world.
She was also an excellent scholar, and we are pleased to let you know that the University of Texas Press has
made the following article by Birdie free to all until April 30, 2014.
Birdie MacLennan. "The Library and Its Place in Cultural Memory: The Grande Bibliothèque du Québec
in the Construction of Social and Cultural Identity." Libraries & the Cultural Record 42.4 (2007): 349-386.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/libraries_and_culture/toc/lac42.4.html
The entire issue of Libraries & the Cultural Record is freely available until April 30.