Deanna Bowling Marcum

Deanna Marcum (elected April 1992) died August 16, 2022. Over more than forty years, Marcum was a leader in the world of libraries and the sharing of knowledge. Marcum served as dean of the School of Library and Information Science at Catholic University; as director of public service and collection management at the Library of Congress; and as president of the Council on Library Resources and simultaneously of the Commission on Preservation and Access, overseeing the 1997 merger of those institutions into the Council on Library and Information Resources. Returning to the Library of Congress as associate librarian for library services, she managed 53 divisions and offices with 1,600 employees. She joined Ithaka S+R after retiring from the Library of Congress and continued to work for that organization as a senior advisor after retiring in 2016. In 2021 she and Roger Schonfeld published Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization, an analytical summary of the history and differing models of digitization since the 1990s. Marcum served the Society in many capacities over the years, most recently as a councilor since fall 2020.