Danielle Forster, UVic’s rare books and information services librarian, passed away suddenly on Aug. 28. One of the many projects Danielle was working on with colleagues at the time of her death was an exhibit based on WWI materials from UVic Archives & Special Collections. This exhibit, “The World of Mary’s Wedding,” which opened Oct. 24 in the Maltwood Gallery at the McPherson Library, was dedicated to the memory of Danielle.

Danielle also acted as a subject librarian for the departments of English, French, women’s studies and religious studies. For these departments, she maintained blogs for her subjects, took French classes to improve her command of the language, worked on many collaborative projects with faculty and taught many library research classes to students.

In 2009, she coordinated the Cy Fox/Wyndham Lewis Collection exhibition and symposium, and edited and published The Lion and the Fox exhibition catalogue, which won the 2010 Association of College and Research Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Award. Cy Fox, now living in Toronto, sent his condolences to library staff in a letter where he wrote, “hers were a safe pair of hands working forcefully but without fuss and with an instinctive sense of exactitude and comprehensiveness.”

A Danielle Forster Special Collections Endowment Fund has been established to commemorate Danielle’s dedication and promotion of learning. The fund will provide Special Collections and the University Archives with the means to hire a student to assist with priority projects. The goal is to build this fund to $25,000 at which time it will be endowed and remain with the library in perpetuity. An online donation form is available through the UVic Libraries’ website (http://bit.ly/vn3z6a).

Danielle will be greatly missed by her colleagues at the library and throughout the university.

Submitted by Susan Henderson, UVic Libraries