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Lucia Gonzalez, assistant section manager of youth services in the Broward County (FL) Main Library, has been named youth services coordinator. She formerly was the children's outreach librarian for Imagination Factory, a division of the Miami-Dade Public Library System. Gonzalez has written two children's books: The Bossy Gallito (Scholastic, 1994), which was awarded a Pura Belpré Children's Literature Honor Medal, and Señor Cat's Romance and Other Favorite Stories from Latin America(Scholastic, 1997).

Ken Haycock, a professor at the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia and founder of Canada's Teacher-Librarianmagazine, has been elected president of the Association of Library and Information Science Education.

Joan Aiken, a British writer best known for her gothic fantasies, died January 4 at 79. The most famous of her more than 100 books were The Wolves Chronicles, a series set in early 19th-century England.

The daughter of poet Conrad Aiken, her first book was a collection of short stories entitled All You've Ever Wanted, which was published when she was 18.