Shirley E. Johnson died peacefully Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009, at age 81. Shirley started working at the UW-Extension Library in 1956, was appointed instructor in 1957, granted tenure in 1962, and named assistant professor in 1973. She was appointed director of the UW-Extension Library Services in January 1977, and became extension historian in 1994. After 40 years of dedicated service, she retired from Extension Library in 1996 as assistant professor emerita. With the assistance of UW-Extension technical staff, she developed the impressive UW-Extension history database, www.uwex.edu/history.
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