Library Memories

Memories shared by alumni during the centennial celebration. Share your memories with us too.

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How often did I study in Joyner? Every day I worked! I worked in Media Teaching Resources Center (MTRC) and in Circulation. Once you had your job duties completed for the day (shelving, helping patrons, filing, organizing, making copies, etc) you were allowed to read your books and do homework. Talk about a great motivator! (I hope I'm not getting anyone in trouble here!) I worked there (1992-1996) when the Internet was just beginning, back when gopher was the mainstay, way before browsers. Back when the left side of the hall on the way to reference was lined with paper catalog! Because of this experience, and the love of being in the library setting, I went to graduate school to become a librarian. Now with my Masters in Information Science, I KNOW I couldn't have learned as much as I did if it wasn't for Joyner! ~ Meredith Prudden Goins, '96

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In my years there, I worked some at the college radio station which was located on the second floor of the library. It's call letters were WWWS, after Wendell W. Smiley. I did news and some classical musical programs. It was an enjoyable experience, and I even got my photo in the annual in the Spring, '59 issue. ~ Bob Daniels, '59

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From 1968 until I graduated in 1971, I worked in old Joyner Library as a part of my work-study grant. I don't remember how many hours a week I worked, but I know that I made $1.50 an hour. At that time, the stacks were closed except to graduate students, so undergraduates had to fill out a request slip and have their books retrieved by a worker. I worked the third and fourth floors. There was a dumb waiter that we used to get books down to the circulation desk. I would sit by the dumb waiter until the request slip came up by vacuum tube, and then I would find the books and load them onto the dumb waiter and send them back down to the circulation desk. It was quiet up there in the stacks, and I was able to study in between book requests. During my senior year, I worked in the reserve room, which was where books placed on reserve by professors, etc., could be used by students. The reserve room was across the lobby from the circulation desk. I have fond memories of the time I spent in old Joyner both as a worker in the stacks and in the reserve room and as a student struggling to get a research paper done in the old reference room. ~ Linda Cheers Callender, '71