Lemont C. Johnson, a former senior library clerk in the Penn Libraries, died on May 20. He was 87. 

Mr. Johnson joined Penn’s staff in 1969 as a stockkeeper in the chemistry department of the Faculty (today the School) of Arts & Sciences. In 1975, he became a library stack attendant in Penn’s School of Medicine Library; the next year, he moved to the Van Pelt Library, where he served as a senior library clerk. 

Mr. Johnson became a member of Penn’s Twenty-five Year Club in 1995. He retired from Penn in 2000. 

Mr. Johnson is survived by his husband, Ricardo Bostic.