http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/09/terribly-sad-news-lee-dirks-and-wife-judy-lew-killed-in-car-accident/ Linking librarians, publishers and vendors Sat, 18 May 2013 19:36:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.against-the-grain.com/2012/09/terribly-sad-news-lee-dirks-and-wife-judy-lew-killed-in-car-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-41244 Confederation of Open Access Repositories COAR Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:01:19 +0000 http://www.against-the-grain.com/?p=18330#comment-41244 It is with great sadness that we learned about the tragic deaths of Lee Dirks of Microsoft Research, and his wife Judy, who died in a car accident in Peru at the end of August. The loss of Lee means the loss of a strong and committed voice in the scholarly communications arena. A pertinent commentator on the upcoming challenges faced by libraries and repositories; Lee was also an early supporter of COAR and contributed substantially to the international network. We have lost a great person and a wonderful and enthousiastic friend and colleague. The COAR offers its deepest sympathies to the Dirks family. We will miss him. It is with great sadness that we learned about the tragic deaths of Lee Dirks of Microsoft Research, and his wife Judy, who died in a car accident in Peru at the end of August.
The loss of Lee means the loss of a strong and committed voice in the scholarly communications arena. A pertinent commentator on the upcoming challenges faced by libraries and repositories; Lee was also an early supporter of COAR and contributed substantially to the international network.
We have lost a great person and a wonderful and enthousiastic friend and colleague.
The COAR offers its deepest sympathies to the Dirks family. We will miss him.

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