Anna Harriet Heyer died 12 August 2002 in Fort Worth, Texas, shortly before her 93d birthday. (Notes for Notes).(Obituary)

Anna Harriet Heyer died 12 August 2002 in Fort Worth, Texas, shortly before her 93d birthday. She came to Denton at the invitation of Wilfrid C. Ban in the fail of 1940 to create the music library at what is now the University of North Texas. Having received the finest education and training available, both in music and in library science (B.M. in piano and B.A. in mathematics, Texas Christian University; B.S. in library science, University of Illinois; M.S. in library service, Columbia University; M.M. in musicology, University of Michigan), she was uniquely equipped for the task. The next summer she also started teaching a course in music librarianship which continues to be offered every other year.

Dynamic and single-minded, strict but unfailingly polite to her fellow workers (even to administrators whose instructions she was sometimes unlikely to carry out), she was also a person who enjoyed life to the fullest, both inside and outside the profession. She was always willing to take advice from those she respected: on collection development, bibliographic projects, teaching, and even cataloging.

She was charmingly naive about the importance of what she did. Even when her book Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music (3d ed., Chicago: American Library Association, 1980), almost immediately better known as "Heyer," appeared in its various editions through the years, she found it difficult to think of it or herself as "important." She saw the book as a job that needed doing, so she proceeded to do it. This is an admirable quality seldom seen today.

When she retired from North Texas in 1965, she went back home to Fort Worth to become a "consultant" in music library materials at Texas Christian University. What she did there was catalog another few ...