Karl Bernard Johnson, 72, died May 22, 2014. He began his library career while working as a page at the Menominee County Library in Stephenson, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in elementary education, then worked as a school librarian in Coolidge, Arizona, and at West High School in Denver, Colorado. He earned his master's degree in library science from the University of Denver in 1967. He worked at ASU’s Hayden Library as head of the Special Collections Division, and earned his PhD in higher education-administration from ASU in 1974. In 1977 he became the first full-time librarian of Tucson's East Campus Library of Pima Community College, and retired from that position in 2000. He was active in the Arizona Library Association and the American Library Association. He is survived by his wife, Bette Johnson, a son, three daughters, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Memorial Services will be held at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, June 1, 2014, at Streams in the Desert Lutheran Church, 5360 E. Pima Street in Tucson. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Karl and Bette Johnson Scholarship at California Lutheran University, 60 W. Olsen Rd. #1625, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360, (805) 493-3163. (Source: Arizona Republic)