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Tuesday, May 07, 2002
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue7_5/hogan/index.html In Dedication: Sharon Hogan 1945-2002 Sharon Hogan, university librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and a national leader in the transformation of libraries into information retrieval systems, died Saturday, April 27, in Arizona following a brief illness. She was 57. A champion of copyright, free speech, privacy and other legislative issues affecting libraries and information systems, Ms. Hogan testified before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs on the E-Government Act of 2001 regarding technology and access issues. She received the Intellectual Freedom Award from the Illinois Library Association for criticizing Internet filters and for opposing state legislation that would have let individual counties set obscenity standards, hampering interlibrary loans across county lines. "Libraries play a very important role in safeguarding every citizen's right to read or hear diverse viewpoints and to make up his or her own mind about issues," she said at the time of her award last year.... (ed. note: OTEL and online learning at the University of Illinois as a whole were enhanced enormously through Sharon Hogan's leadership, intelligence, insight, dedication and compassion . )
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