EUGENE DICKERSON

Eugene H. Dickerson
Known to most as Gene, passed away at Georgetown University Hospital on Saturday, December 16, 2017 after a long battle with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. He is survived by his partner Ken Plonsky and his brother James. There will be a "Celebration of Life" on January 7, 2018 which would have been Gene's 60th birthday. That's from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Van Ness North apartments in the "Van Ness Room." The address is 3001 Veazey Terrace NW Washington, DC, just two blocks from the Van Ness metro stop on the red line. There is parking at the Giant Gene was a librarian. Gene joined the Bunche Library staff at State Dept. in 2006 as the Cataloging Team Leader. From 1996 through 2006 he served as a Unit Head for the National Library of Medicine. Gene was serials librarian with Villanova University Library from 1986 to 1996. He received his MLS from Rutgers in 1982. Gene was born in Trenton. He did his undergraduate at Rider University where he had first Library job. His first librarian job was at University of Delaware 1983-1986.He was active in ALA (American Library Association) where he is the former chair and a current member of the Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee, formerly known as the Committee to Study Serials Cataloging. Gene has been an adjunct trainer for PALINET for many years, and has taught workshops for both OCLC (Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program) CAPCON and FEDLINK. He has taught SCCTP workshops in Basic Serials Cataloging and in Cataloging Electronic Serials. Gene's great cataloging skills, high productivity, and systems insight will be sorely missed. He always stayed current with changes and innovations in our profession. Few people were as dedicated to Librarianship.