Known as a generous and open-spirited colleague as well as an outstanding scholar, Professor Emerita Nancy Williamson passed away in Toronto on December 3rd. While Professor Williamson retired from what was then the Faculty of Library and Information Science almost 30 years ago in 1994, she would regularly visit her office on the sixth floor of the Bissell Building well into her eighties.
Professor Williamson provided invaluable assistance to junior colleagues and continued to publish regularly on a wide range of topics. Former Dean Wendy Duff recalls Williamson’s help as she prepared to teach Records Management for the first time. “Nancy gave me all her materials, which was a life saver,” Duff said. “A new faculty member could not have had better support than Nancy.”
Professor Williamson is also remembered fondly by the many successful graduates she taught and supervised at both the Master’s and Doctoral degree levels.
Before joining what is now the Faculty of Information in 1965, Professor Williamson worked for 15 years as a librarian in Hamilton, Ontario. She earned both her BLS and MLS degrees from U of T and her PhD from Case Western University.
If you would like to learn more about Professor Williamson’s life and scholarship, please see her obituary and this Ex Libris biography.
