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Gretchen Whitney, PhD, Retired
School of Information Sciences
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA [log in to unmask]
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It is with great sadness that I share that Dr. Jerry D. Saye, our friend,
colleague and former faculty member at the School of Information and
Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, passed
away at his home yesterday, June 7, 2012.
Jerry was an exceptional teacher, winning the School's Outstanding
Teaching Award twice, once in 1998 and again in 2005, as well as the
Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Award
for Teaching Excellence in 2002. He was the recipient of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Distinguished Teaching Award for Post
Baccalaureate Instruction in 1999 and became a member of the Academy of
Distinguished Teaching Scholars in 2000. In 2009, he received the Lifetime
Teaching Award, a special award presented by SILS for exceptional
teaching.
His primary subject areas included cataloging and classification, history
of the book, library history and metadata. Jerry authored, "Manheimer and
Saye's Cataloging and Classification," 5th edition. New York: Marcel
Dekker, and from 1997 to 2002, he edited with Dr. Evelyn Daniel, the
annual "Library and Information Science Education Statistical Report." He
published many papers, articles and reports, and presented broadly
primarily on subjects related to cataloging. In addition, he conducted
many workshops on subjects for which he had great passion to help educate
colleagues and students. He was devoted to his teaching, but he was also a
devoted leader at SILS. In 1990, he was appointed assistant dean and in
1994, he was promoted to associate dean of the school.
Jerry became involved with the country of Slovenia when he advised SILS
doctoral student Alenka ?auperl (Ph.D. '99), a SILS alumna and now a
professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at the
University of Ljubljana. In 2003, he received the prestigious title of
Senior Fulbright Scholar to Slovenia, which deepened his affection for
this area of the world. His connections there resulted in a long-standing
exchange program between SILS and the University of Ljubljana, and a
summer seminar that was in place at SILS for several years. In November of
2011, he was presented with the "Pro universitate labacensis" award "for
special merit for advancing the development of the University of
Ljubljana."
Jerry received his Ph.D. and Master's degrees in Library Science from the
University of Pittsburgh. He was inducted into the Beta Phi Mu
(International Honor Society in Library Science) in 1971.
He had been an active member in several professional groups including:
Zveza Bibliotekarskih Dru?tev Slovenije. Dru?tva Ljubljana. [Union of
Associations of Slovene Librarians. Ljubljana Association]; Society for
Slovene Studies; the American Library Association; American Society for
Information Science and Technology; Association for Library and
Information Science Education; and the Association for Library Collections
and Technical Services.
In addition to a stellar academic career, Jerry served with the Pacific
Fleet of the United States Navy. He spent part of his time at the Pearl
Harbor Naval Base Library as a Library Technical Assistant. He later
rejoined the U.S. Naval Reserves and retired as a Lt. Commander with 27
years of service.
Our deepest condolences to Jerry's wife Terri Orsini Saye, his sisters,
Sandra (Bob) Kord and Debra (Jan) Grunewald, mother and father-in-law Tony
and Mary Louise Orsini and his nieces, nephews who he leaves behind.
A celebration of Jerry's life will be held later this fall to honor the
lifetime of teaching and leadership he gave to SILS on the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. A Web page where you may wish to
leave your favorite memory of Jerry Saye is available at:
http://sils.unc.edu/remembrance/jerry-saye
The family has requested that memorial contributions be made in his honor
to the School of Information and Library Science at UNC at Chapel Hill,
the Orange County Rescue Squad or another charity of your choice.
Gary Marchionini
Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor
School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [log in to unmask]
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