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By the 1990s, CLW had become the Department of Informa- tion Studies at Aberystwyth University, and Mike was appoint- ed as a Reader. He continued with research as well as teaching and supervising masters and doctoral students, along with Lucy who was now a lecturer in the Department. Mike pub- lished over 70 reports and papers and in 1999, on retirement, received the Jason Farradane Award for his lifetime’s work in information retrieval.


Mike was an elder of the Alfred Place Baptist Church,


Aberystwyth and in 1974, with Norma, set up the linked Christian Bookshop. Mike died on 5 May 2021 after a short illness. He leaves his wife, three children, and 11 grandchil- dren and is remembered by them as a loving and caring husband, father and grandfather, and by us as a remarkable colleague.


Chris Armstrong, Dick Hartley and Lucy Tedd.


David Lindley D


avid Lindley was born in 1945 in Dewsbury, West York- shire, where he attended the local grammar school. He left school at 16, and with ten pounds in his pocket set off to London ‘to become a writer’. An avid reader, he had spent all his free hours in


Dewsbury public library, then under the stewardship of the inspirational borough librarian Fred Smith. Looking out for a job, and having missed the opportunity to add ‘petrol pump attendant’ to the blurb of a future novel, he was offered a position as library assistant in Ilford (now Redbridge) Central Library.


He later went on to qualify at the library school at Ealing Technical College, and remained with Red- bridge until 1974 when


he moved to Dunn & Wilson in Morley and began a new career in the library supply industry. He worked briefly for Combridge Jackson in Birmingham until its demise, and in 1983 joined Books for Students in Warwick, becoming sales and marketing director. He was influential in the reader development movement and the creation of library promotions. He helped found and manage the annual Summer Reading Challenge. He chaired the Library


Booksellers Group of the Booksellers Association, and was a well known and respected figure in the publishing and library profes- sional world.


Consolidation in the book industry eventually led to the financial failure of Books for Students. After a spell as international mar- keting director for Coutts, he became an independent marketing consultant, helping suppliers understand the library market, and advising libraries on branding, marketing communication and the customer experience. He was engaged by the MLA to secure funding for Designing


Libraries, at that time a library buildings database project at Aberystwyth University. Its future sustainability had always been in doubt. When the MLA was wound up, at David’s instigation, in 2011, Designing Libraries was incorporated as a Community Interest Company to continue to serve all sectors of the library profession, related organisations and anyone interested in library planning, design and the future shape of library services. He con- tinued the successful management of the company until overtaken by ill health. Sadly, David passed away on 18 March 2022. He will be sorely missed by his second wife, Caron, who cared for him throughout his two-year struggle with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. David is also survived by his sons, Alex and James, by his first wife, Sue, and granddaughters, Harriet and Mia. So what became of the writer? After a number of false starts, he did write and publish several books of poetry, philosophy and translations, notably new verse translations of the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching, and the bestselling How to Write a Haiku. All his work can be seen at verborumeditions.com.


Caron Lindley (wife).


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