Lennart Limberg

Today, I learned of the recent passing of Dr Lennart Limberg from Gothenburg and I am very sad to hear this news.  Lennart's wife, Professor Louise Limberg, is a very weel-kent scholar in the information literacy world and her work helped make Borås one of the centres of IL research.  It was through Louise that I got to know Lennart who was a very learned scholar too and was a man of great charm and humour.  Lennart worked at Riksföreningen Sverigekontact (roughly translated as the Royal Society for Swedish Culture Abroad) and one of his great specialisms was utvandringen till Amerika or Swedish emigration to the USA and on piecing together the family connections of the émigrés.  So, as you can imagine, he and I found much to talk about.  But he was such a great scholar of Sweden and all its culture as well as being a lovely human being.