[IRTalk] Hilton Gibson passed away

Bedassa Motuma bedassamm at gmail.com
Tue May 9 08:07:07 SAST 2017


Dear Leti,
It was so sad to hear the pass away of Gibson, the Dspace and Open Access
Community hero. Really the Open Access Community have lost one a great man.
RIP.






*Bedassa Motuma (MSc)Director, Library SystemMobile: +251945052133Office:
+251471112119Jimma UniversityJimma Ethiopia *

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 10:55 PM, Naniki Maphakwane <
nmaphakwane at staff.bocodol.ac.bw> wrote:

> Dear Leti,
> On behalf of Botswana Library Consortium and on my own behalf I would like
> to pass my condolences to Gibson's family and to the DSpace and Open Access
> family in South  Africa and indeed in the far end of the world. Botswana's
>  DSpace and Open Access community has benefited a lot from Gibson's
> knowledge, skills and experience. May His Soul  Find Eternal Peace in The
> Lord.
> Kind regards,
> Naniki Maphakwane
>
> On 8 May 2017 at 12:07, Leti Kleyn <Leti.Kleyn at up.ac.za> wrote:
>
>> Dear IR Community member,
>>
>> it is with great regret that I have to inform you that our Open Access
>> colleague, Hilton Gibson, passed away this morning after a struggle with
>> pancreatic cancer.
>>
>> Hilton was know for his irreplaceable contribution to the DSpace and Open
>> Access community in South African and the African continent at large.
>>
>> Regards
>> Leti Kleyn
>>
>> *Dr Leti Kleyn*
>> Manager: Open Scholarship & Digitisation Programmes
>> Department of Library Services
>> Merensky Library Room 2.24.2
>> University of Pretoria
>> 8 leti.kleyn at up.ac.za ) 012 420 3876
>>
>> <http://repository.up.ac.za>
>>
>>
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>
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