From: "Cliff Lynch cliff@cni.org" Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 21:55:00 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [73.193.181.76] (account clifford@cni.org HELO [192.168.1.17]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.7) with ESMTPSA id 37346155 for cni-announce@cni.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:16:58 -0500 X-Original-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:16:57 -0500 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org X-Original-Message-ID: <20201123201657774585.e38eb731@cni.org> Subject: Karen Smith-Yoshimura Retires; Farewell Announcement MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: GyazMail version 1.6.3 Karen Smith-Yoshimura, who so many in our community know from her work at the Research Libraries Group and then at OCLC, has announced she is retiring at the end of this month. Karen has done amazing things during her career. I'm particularly grateful for her low-profile but absolutely essential work that ultimately led to Unicode; this is vision and leadership at its very best. Thank you for that, and for so much else you've done, including your more recent work on linked data, Karen. And of course Karen has written a much better summary of her accomplishments that I could possibly compose. It's absolutely worth reading, and it's here: https://hangingtogether.org/?p=8739 With all best wishes for her retirement. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI