<div dir="ltr">Thank you, Kathleen. I am sharing to FLA's listservs</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 9:16 AM Kathleen Mccook <<a href="mailto:kmccook@usf.edu">kmccook@usf.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg4072347024357836160">




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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">We invite tributes from anyone about any library worker who passed away between 1976-2026. To submit a tribute, please use this form
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Kathleen de la Peña McCook<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">writes: </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-weight:500"><a style="margin:0px" title="https://kathleenmccook.substack.com/" id="m_-3337625728378184965OWA65175f87-cab2-a868-ac30-3295809994d6" href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkathleenmccook.substack.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cfla-facrl%40lists.fsu.edu%7C2e58432954e640ec9b6208de583486fc%7Ca36450ebdb0642a78d1b026719f701e3%7C0%7C0%7C639045179788678081%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rZ8ruyjGLoyA%2FpX%2FLNYGhhIOP%2F4HumwGPLHHxG5aqv4%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://kathleenmccook.substack.com/" target="_blank">The
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