Deana Astle the Associate Director for Collections at East Carolina
University's Joyner Library and formerly Assistant Dean of Libraries at
Clemson University Libraries passed away this morning at 2 AM.

Deana will be well remembered by the many members of the serials
community for her work on differential pricing; her research and
articles on serials analysis; her leadership in preservation issues,
including disaster planning; and her involvement with professional
organizations and conferences. She was a great mentor in a lot of ways
to many librarians. Some of you would have seen her at the last
Conference she attended, ALA midwinter in Boston.

She was the recipient of the Bowker Ulrich Serials Librarianship award
in 1991 for efforts that ... "led to international attention on the
pricing policies of journals and publishers practices" She was active in
NASIG in its early years, ACRL and ALA particularly in ALCTS including
the Serials Section and chaired the Esther J. Piercy award committee in
1996.  She was a frequent presenter at the Charleston Conference and a
member of the original editorial board of the Newsletter on Serials
Pricing Issues and author of over a dozen articles in library journals.

Deana was Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Phi Mu, an A.B. graduate Cum Laude
with High Honors from Brown University, MLS from UCLA and MA University
of Utah.

She began her professional career in the Serials Department at the
University of Utah libraries in 1970, and became Head of the Serials
Department at the University of Missouri- Columbia, Ellis Library in
1978. In 1986 she went to Clemson University where she served as Head of
Technical Services until 1992 when she was named Assistant Dean of
Libraries. She moved to East Carolina University in 2001.

Friends will recall her knitting, her Dulcimer, and her sense of humor
and her active and intelligent contributions to discussions of major
issues, whether online or in person, at conferences and in daily
conversations.

She succumbed after a long and courageous battle with cancer. She is
survived by two brothers. Deana was an active member of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Memorial Service information is not currently available.

Chuck Hamaker