Librarian

Esther L. Sandstrom, a former middle school librarian and a world traveler, died May 26 of heart failure at Franklin Square Hospital Center. She was 95. Esther Louise Plancon, the daughter of French immigrants, was born and raised in Springfield, Mass., where she graduated in 1933 from Classical High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from American International College in Springfield in 1937. She worked as a telephone operator after college and in 1937 married John Russell Sandstrom.

Margaret M. Guccione, a retired Goucher College information technology librarian and volunteer who helped place stray animals, died Oct. 8 of colon cancer at her Butchers Hill home. She was 67. Margaret McFarlane, the daughter of a physician and a nurse, was born and raised in Alton, Ill. After graduating in 1961 from Marquette High School in Alton, Ms. Guccione earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1965 from St. Louis University. She taught English in St. Louis until moving to Germany in the late 1960s with her first husband, David Guccione, whom she later divorced.

Paulette Tanenbaum, a retired Harford County librarian, died of malignant melanoma March 8 at her home in Street. She was 79. Paulette Townsend was born in Paris, the daughter of an American pastor and a French mother. After the Germans occupied France, the family fled to Lisbon, Portugal, where they boarded a ship for New York. They lived in southern New Jersey before moving to Providence, R.I., where Mrs. Tanenbaum graduated from Mount Pleasant High School. She later moved to Harford County, where she worked as a county librarian in Bel Air and Fallston for 30 years.

Carol N. Kelly, who was head librarian at St. Paul's School for Girls for two decades and an active church member, died Sept. 29 of Alzheimer's disease at the Maples of Towson, an assisted-living facility. She was 71 and had lived in Cockeysville. Carol Ann Newman, the daughter of an insurance executive and a homemaker, was born in Hartford, Conn., and graduated from East Hartford High School. She was an undergraduate at Drew University in Madison, N.J., when she met and fell in love with a classmate, John Frederic Kelly.

Jacqueline Evelyn Williams, a retired Garrett County mathematics teacher and librarian, died of a heart attack July 28 at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 66. A Glen Arm resident, she had lived in Grantsville in Garrett County. Born in Baltimore and raised in Northwood, she was a 1960 Eastern High School graduate. She earned a bachelor's degree at what was then Frostburg State Teachers College. Miss Williams was a math teacher and high school librarian for 25 years in Garrett County before retiring in 1989.

They have names like "The Evil House of Cheat" and the "Cheat Factory" and advertise ready-made term papers on nearly every subject for anyone with access to the Internet. The explosion of Web sites regarded by educators as unethical, high- tech cheat sheets has made it easier for cyber-wise students to plagiarize and tougher for teachers to catch them.Now, educators have a weapon on their side. A cheat-site-savvy New Hampshire college librarian who is working daily to track down the chicanery is e-mailing educators worldwide a list of 49 offending sites to help beat cheaters at their own game.

A librarian and an art teacher were injured yesterday as they tried to break up a student brawl at Meade Senior High School, authorities said.Donald Gobbi, the librarian, was flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center for treatment, said Anne Arundel County police spokesman Randy Bell. Mr. Gobbi was released last night, ...^...C hospital spokeswoman said.John O'Neill, the art teacher, was treated at North Arundel Hospital for minor injuries and released, Officer Bell said.Five students received minor injuries in the fracas, which brought county officers and military police from Fort Meade rushing to the school.

Services for Dorothy A. Leach, a retired librarian at the W. R. Grace Washington Research Center in Clarksville, will be held at 10 a.m. today at Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church, North Avenue and Wolfe Street.Mrs. Leach, who was 77 and lived at the Augsburg Lutheran Village in Lochearn, died Wednesday of cancer at Levindale.She retired in 1978 after 20 years at the Grace laboratory. She had earlier done similar work for the Mutual Chemical Co. and clerical work for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.The former Dorothy A. LaBonte was born in Baltimore and graduated from Eastern High School in 1931.