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Leigh Estabrook has retired from her position as dean of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Estabrook, hired as dean in 1986, oversaw the expansion of the school and initiated a distance-learning program. She will continue teaching at the school.

Young adult novelist Robert Lipsyte will deliver the fourth annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on October 3, 2001, at the Wisconsin Union Theater in Madison, WI. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the Web site of the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/index.htm).

American Library Association Councilor Karen Schneider is the new head of the Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII), a searchable, annotated guide to more than 7,900 Net resources. Schneider, a former assistant director of technology at Shenendehowa Library in Clifton Park, NY, will succeed LII's founder, Carole Leita.

Betty Cavanna, an author of books for teenagers, died August 13 at her home in Vézalay, France. She was 92. Elizabeth Cavanna Harrison wrote most of her 80-plus books under her maiden name, Betty Cavanna. Her early books, such as A Girl Can Dream, published in 1947, described the challenges of adolescence and appealed to generations of teenage girls.

Robert Kraus, children's book author, illustrator, and cartoonist, died August 7, in Kent, CT. He was 76. Kraus's picture books include Whose Mouse are You? and Leo the Late Bloomer.