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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Colleagues: It is with great sorrow that I tell you about the passing of Sarah Ann "Sally" Gibson. The former Librarian of the Clark Art Institute, she was a dear and generous friend and she will be greatly missed. I am attaching the obituary which appeared in the Berkshire Eagle, Wednesday August 18, 1999. POWNAL, Vt. -- Sarah Ann "Sally" Gibson, 67, of Mason Hill Road, Pownal, Vermont, died Friday at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center, where she had been admitted a week earlier. Her death followed a brief illness. Born in Harrisburg, Pa., on March 2, 1932, daughter of John Young and Alice Cooper Scott, she attended schools in Harrisburg until the age of 11, when she transferred to the Baldwin School at Bryn Mawr, Pa. She graduated in 1949. In 1953, she graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Mass., with a major in history. She began her postgraduate education in library science at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and completed her master's degree with a double major in library science and art history at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Mrs. Gibson was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency for a short time and later was associated with the Batelle Institute in Columbus, Ohio. She then worked in the college library of Dennison University in Granville, Ohio. In 1972, she joined the faculty of the school of library science at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She returned to Cleveland and received her Ph.D. in library science at Case Western Reserve University in 1974. Also that year she joined the faculty of the School of Library Science at Case Western Reserve, where she also served as assistant dean for several years and finally as acting head of the school. Following her move to Williamstown, Mass. in 1986, she was employed as an associate editor for the Bibliography of the History of Art, housed in the Clark Art Institute. In 1987, she was appointed librarian of the Clark Art Institute, a position she held until her retirement in 1996. Mrs. Gibson was co-author with Lois Swan Jones of "Art Libraries and Information Services: Development, Organization and Management," published in 1996. She was a member of the Baldwin Alumni Association, the Smith College Alumni Association, Historians of Netherlandish Art, Art Libraries Society of North America and the Bennington Historical Society. She was also a volunteer at the library of the Bennington (Vt.) Historical Society. She is survived by her husband of 26 years, Walter Samuel Gibson, whom she married on Dec. 16, 1972, in Cleveland. A memorial service celebrating the life of Sarah Ann Gibson will take place Friday, August 20, at 2 p.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church in Williamstown, Mass., with the Rev. Charles H. O'Brien officiating. The omission of flowers is requested. Those who wish may make donations in her memory to the Second Chance Animal Center (Bennington County Humane Society), Shaftsbury, Vt. or to any charity of the donor's choice through the Flynn & Dagnoli-Montagna Home for Funerals, 74 Marshall St., North Adams, MA 01247. Susan Roeper Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute 225 South Street Williamstown, MA 01267 [log in to unmask] Tel.: 413-458-9545 Fax: 413-458-9542