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Obituaries I


Esme Evans


t is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our much-loved and respected friend and colleague Esme Evans, who has died aged 78.


Esme was a near constant presence at Worthing


Library, having started work aged 18 as a Junior Assistant on 25 September 1961. Esme was granted leave of absence to attend library school in 1963, where she trained to be a librarian. She was then part of the team who moved the library in 1975, from the shared building with the museum to brand new, purpose-built premises. Even after retirement in 1996, Esme was a regular weekly visitor to the library, working as a local history volunteer and popping in


with her wheely trolley bag to borrow piles of books. Colleagues remember Esme as an incredibly knowledge- able and energetic librarian, always willing to go the extra mile on any enquiry. With her expertise and experience she mentored many trainee librarians who “counted it a privilege to have learned from her”.


Regular library customers remember that “in the nicest possible way she was almost ‘part of the infrastructure’ and was always willing and able to help”. She certainly was a “familiar figure” to many in Worthing Library and beyond and it is hard to remember a time when Esme was not busily at work.


After her retirement from West Sussex Library Ser-


vice, Esme devoted much of her time to overseeing and managing the Sussex Archaeological Society’s Library at


Frank Hogg F


rancis Norry Hogg OBE ALA FLA MA was the first and founding Principal of Coleg Llyfrgell- wyr Cymru/the College of Librarianship Wales (CLW).


Frank was born in Manchester in October


1927, where he was brought up. After serving in the Navy as a Leading Seaman Coder he worked in Manchester’s Central Library followed by Northallerton, Wakefield and Hull public libraries before returning to Manchester’s School of Librarianship. In February 1964 he was appointed as CLW’s Principal (planned to be a small col- lege with a full-time staff of three and an intake of up to 30 students per year). At his interview though, Frank made it clear that he envisaged a college that would appeal to prospective students from all over the world. The first 12


postgraduate students were enrolled in October 1964. 48 INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL


By 1968, under Frank’s visionary leadership, CLW had become the largest library school in the UK with over 400 students and 40 or so full-time academic teaching staff, a large number of support staff and with more international students than all the other British library schools combined. During 1969/70 Frank was a visiting international professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh in the US and there discussed ideas of a possible Inter- national Graduate Summer School (IGSS). Such a school was held annually at CLW with over 1,000 students from 70 countries attending.


Frank played a key role in the design of the CLW’s


Llanbadarn campus, in particular the “library of librarian ship” which opened in 1971. This library was internationally renowned for the scope and breadth of its collection, and attracting visiting scholars from all over the world. By 1972 CLW was the largest school of librarianship in Europe. Students went on study tours to libraries in the UK and Europe and academic staff were frequently seconded to work overseas. Frank was also involved in a wide range of overseas consultancies.


April-May 2023


Barbican House in Lewes as their Honorary Librarian. For more than 25 years Esme showed immense dedi- cation and professional skill in ensuring the published collections were made available to members and the wider public. This included a project to make the library catalogue available online - the first step towards the digi- tisation of resources, including the Sussex Archaeological Collections.


Her energy, spirit and passion for the Society was undoubted and Esme had only recently announced her plans to retire from her role as Honorary Librarian at the Sussex Archaeological Society. Even when she was no longer able to drive, Esme would take two buses from her home, for the 90-minute trip into Lewes, at least three days a week.


Esme was also a founder member of The Worthing Society, attending the first meeting in 1982 and becom- ing Secretary. She took a great interest in local heritage and conservation work and could always be relied upon to be at meetings and talks in Worthing Library Lecture Theatre. She seemed to know everyone, and everyone knew her.


She gave so much of herself to her work and helping others with theirs. Now that she has gone, we realise that although Esme always had a lot to say, she never spoke much about her life outside of her work, perhaps because her work was her life. Esme will indeed be sorely missed by all who were privileged to have known her.


Russell Allen, Head of Libraries and Heritage, West Sussex Library Service.


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