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Sherrill Cheda | |
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| Born | Sherrill Schneider February 15, 1936 Osgood, Indiana, US |
| Died | June 7, 2008 (aged 72) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Resting place | Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto |
| Occupation(s) | Librarian, writer |
| Spouses | Noel Perry (1958-1967) Michael Cheda (1969-1979) Karl Jaffary (1987-2008) |
Sherrill Cheda (February 15, 1936 – June 7, 2008) was an American-born Canadian librarian, feminist writer and arts administrator. She worked in a number of academic libraries in the United States and Canada before serving as chief librarian at Seneca College.
In addition to writing for Chatelaine, she co-founded and edited Emergency Librarian, a publication focused on feminist issues in librarianship, with Phyllis Yaffe. Following her position at Seneca, she worked at the Canadian Periodical Publishers Association and the Ontario Arts Council before taking a position with the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Communications.