[IRTalk] Hilton Gibson passed away

[fiakpui frank]

What a great loss. His contributions to the knowledge community is
marvelous and it is indelible etched.Condolence to the  family.

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Stephen Akintunde <sakintun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What a loss! Hilton was quite inspirational in his complete devotion to
> open access; many times I thought 'how compulsively passionate a
> professional could be!'. May the good Lord comfort his family and immediate
> colleagues. Condolences from Nigeria.
>
> *Stephen A. Akintunde, PhD*
> University Librarian
> University of Jos
> Jos, Plateau State 930001
> Nigeria.
> librarian at unijos.edu.ng
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Katongole Juma <jumah377 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What a shock!!!!! and LOSS!!. Hilton was a great MAN who was always on
>> target. I worked with him on standardizing and upgrading of Makerere
>> University IR.
>>
>> May his soul rest in eternal peace.
>>
>> ................................
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 1:07 PM, 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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>>
>>
>> --
>> Katongole Juma
>> Database Administrator
>> Directorate for ICT Support
>> Makerere University
>> Mobile:0702278793
>>          :0780247887
>> email:jumah377 at gmail.com
>> jkatongole at dicts.mak.ac.ug
>>
>>
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