Charles T. Payne, 89, died Aug. 1 in Chicago, where he worked as a pioneer in library information technology at the University of Chicago. Mr. Payne’s career straddled the shift from card catalogs to computers. “It’s so hard to imagine, now,” Melanie Payne said. “Librarians wrote things on little cards and they were in drawers. That was the way records were kept.” He was “a leader in early library automation,” said Alice Schreyer, interim library director at the University of Chicago. In 1964, he became its first Systems Librarian. His work led to implementation of the university’s Library Data Management System, or LDMS, one of the first library automated systems. He served from 1975 to 1992 as the library’s assistant director for systems before retiring in 1995. Known for mentoring staffers, “He certainly brought great intelligence and passion, and again, I think the humor that we all need in an intense workplace,” Schreyer said.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 19:24:11 +0000
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