found: Chicago tribune WWW site, viewed Feb. 21, 2017(in obituary dated Feb. 21, 2017: Amanda Rudd; first African-American to head the Chicago Public Library; library commissioner from about 1982 to 1985; Rudd, 93, died of natural causes Feb. 11 in Atlanta; moved to Atlanta about six years ago, after living in retirement in Washington, D.C., and before that in Cleveland; born Amanda Sullivan in Greenville, S.C.; received a bachelor's degree from Florida A & M University in Tallahassee and later a master's degree in library science from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where she lived from the late 1950s until 1970; after working as a second-grade teacher in Cleveland public schools, Rudd became a school librarian and eventually assistant director of school libraries in the city; moved to Chicago in 1970, joining the defunct Field Enterprises, then the publisher of the World Book Encyclopedia; worked as an educational consultant, traveling around the country teaching educators how to incorporate the encyclopedia into their teaching; took a job in 1975 with the Chicago Public Library, working on community outreach; she was a deputy commissioner and then acting commissioner before taking on the commissioner's job in the early 1980s; resigned from the commissioner job in 1985; she was given a substantial consulting contract lasting almost two more years; after leaving the library, she worked for Baker & Taylor, a distributor of books and other materials; worked for some time putting together an annotated bibliography of children's books for, by and about African-Americans)
