Laurel Anne Clyde (7 February 1946 – 18 September 2005) was an Australian educator, teacher-librarian, author and academic who taught in colleges and universities in Australia and Canada, as well as in Iceland.
She was also visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Management at the University of Western Australia in 1996 and 1999[2] and consulted in Latin America, Botswana and Namibia.
[3] Anne wrote a regular column on InfoTech for the North American journal Teacher librarian[4] and was the webmaster for the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) from 1995 to her passing in September 2005.
[7] Her research interests included the use of the internet and online information services in a range of library and educational settings, investigating the ways in which they are understood and measured.
A memorial service was held on 18 October 2005 at St George's Cathedral in Perth, Western Australia[12] and her ashes were scattered at Þingvellir on the site of the first Icelandic Parliament.