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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Beautiful article today in Eater on Lynne Olver, 25 years as reference librarian and later director at Morris County Public Library in Whippany, New Jersey. She started the Food Timeline 2 years before Wikipedia and spent hours researching food history questions and posting to the site. She was a winner of the New York Times Librarian Award in 2002 (wah?) Olver died in 2015<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“A year after Olver’s death, her family began to discuss what would happen to the Food Timeline and who could take it over. “What we know is that we couldn’t do it justice ourselves,” Sarah said. To anyone willing and able to maintain Olver’s vision of an ad-free, simply designed, easy-to-access resource on food history, the family members say that the website and her library are theirs, for free. A couple of people have put forward their names, but the family felt that their hearts weren’t in the right place. “One woman had shown us what she had done with her website and it was just full of banner advertisements,” Gordon said. “It has to uphold her vision,” Sarah added. Olver’s book collection — if a price were to be put on it — would be worth tens of thousands of dollars, Gordon estimates. So far, there have been no takers for either the books or the task of keeping the site going.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s a nice quote: “Libraries are where you’d find that stuff. It’s not the same as using a Wikipedia page at all.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Enjoy! <a href="https://www.eater.com/2020/7/8/21271246/food-timeline-lynne-olver">https://www.eater.com/2020/7/8/21271246/food-timeline-lynne-olver</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Maureen Flanagan Battistella<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Southern Oregon University Sociology and Anthropology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ashland, Oregon<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>