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The Department of Communication remembers Anita Schiller, who died of COVID on January 23, 2021 at 94. Anita was a librarian at UCSD, a fierce defender of the public right to information and a fighter for women’s equality in the library profession.
She was the wife of Herbert I. Schiller, one of the founding faculty members of our department, and was a loved and active member of the department community. Anita and Herb shared the 1982 Golden PEN award for magazine writing for their article in The Nation, “The Privatization of Information: Who Can Own What America Knows,” and Anita was named an honorary member of the American Library Association in 2007. Kelly Gates and Ellen Seiter share their memories of Anita Schiller.
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Our dear colleague and friend Gayatri Singh passed away on October 31st, 2019. As the Geisel Library liaison to the Department of Communication, she worked closely with many of our faculty and our graduate and undergraduate students. She was beloved for her kindness, expertise, and friendship which she shared generously with countless colleagues here at UC San Diego. Her absence will be deeply felt and her impact on our lives will be cherished. We share our thoughts and memories in a collective farewell to Gayatri.