Sylvia Leoner was a smart, caring, and fun person who made the Wilson Dental Library a more welcoming place to work. Sylvia was a committed and valued team member within the Wilson Dental Library, USC Libraries, and Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry for 27 years. Sylvia will be remembered for her many contributions to the USC community, her teamwork and professional excellence, and her warm, friendly personality. She will be greatly missed by both the USC Libraries and Ostrow communities, and especially by all those who worked closely with her at the Wilson Dental Library and Norris Medical Library. She was direct and insightful and she made us laugh all the time. She started working for the USC Libraries as a student worker at the Norris Medical Library in 1995. Sylvia became a full-time staff member at the Wilson Dental Library in 1997, where she worked as a Library Assistant until 2020 and Senior Library Assistant until 2024. Sylvia first started working at the Dental Library when it was a very small library on the second floor of the Dental building. She was there in 1999 when the library received a substantial endowment, was renamed the Jennifer Ann Wilson Dental Library, and moved to a larger permanent space in the basement. She was a consistent presence throughout the library’s many leadership and staffing transitions. As a result, Sylvia held a great deal of valuable historical knowledge about the library’s past. During her career, Sylvia worked the critical opening shift, ensuring that the library was open and available to dental students in the morning (sometimes even before the other dental clinics and offices were open for the day). Sylvia was the lead specialist at the Wilson Dental Library responsible for monitoring and filling requests through the Dental Library’s internal interlibrary loan system and Docline, the interlibrary loan routing system operated through the National Library of Medicine. Sylvia’s leadership and work with Docline has been critical for ensuring that Ostrow dental faculty and staff had the best access to necessary health sciences research literature over the past 27 years. When the Norris Medical Library and Wilson Dental Library became part of the USC Libraries, Sylvia continued to oversee and manage Docline requests while also working closely with the Libraries’ Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery department. Sylvia is survived by her husband, parents, brother and sister, niece and nephew, and godchildren. She was an avid animal lover and loved to share anecdotes about her pet dogs, cats, parrot, and chickens. Sylvia was also a lifelong learner. She loved libraries and was an avid book reader. She had a bachelor's degree in social work from California State University, Los Angeles. She spoke Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English, and was teaching herself Korean. Sylvia truly cared about making the library a welcoming place. She started the tradition of decorating the library for different holidays, and donated many of the holiday decorations that we continue to use today. She was a very creative person and excelled at scrapbooking, crafting, and making DIY decorations. She was caring, empathetic, and went out of her way to recognize the hard work and diligence of the Dental Library student workers. She was the first staff member to start the tradition of putting together gift bags for the student workers at various times throughout the year. Sylvia was also proud of her Native American and Mexican heritage and liked to share her family’s cultural traditions with her team. In the past few years, she created a beautiful Día de Los Muertos table in the library in honor of influential Latino/Latina authors and artists. Sylvia was proud to be part of the BTS ARMY (the name given to only the most diehard fans of BTS, the popular South Korean boy band). If Sylvia was typing away at her work station with her headphones on, you could bet that she was listening to a BTS playlist or watching one of their music videos. We thought it would be fitting to share the music that she loved so deeply with the USC Libraries community. You can listen to BTS in honor of Sylvia’s memory via the BTS YouTube channel and BTS Spotify playlist. -Tribute by Olivia Carreón and Hannah Schilperoort