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<\/a><\/p>\nFor many students frustrated and frazzled by the mysteries of library databases and research assignments, she was a hero who gently guided them through the myriad of resources here at the Library.\u00a0 Beverly\u2019s smile was usually the first thing people saw every morning at the Ross Pendergraft Library, waiting to help the lost and comfort the confused.\u00a0 She also took the time to fill our display cases with new and interesting collections and she made sure the new books were out front and center as soon as they arrived.<\/p>\n
We will deeply miss her and wish her well as starts a new chapter in North Carolina.<\/p>\n Chareen, Beverly, and Sherry–the Public Services dream team<\/p><\/div>\n Another legend, Delores Pollard, officially retired on June 30th after a whopping 37 years as a full-time Serials Librarian Assistant.<\/p>\n Delores with her family and friends<\/p><\/div>\n She graduated from Tech with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, and started out in the library at a student worker back in 1975, when the library was in Tomlinson and grown men thought it was ok to wear sideburns, wide ties, and plaid pants.<\/a><\/p>\n Delores Pollard from 1979 Tech yearbook, the Agricola<\/p><\/div>\n Delores saw the transition of the library through waves of new technology\u2014from card catalog cards to completely online collections and databases.\u00a0 She faithfully drove from her home in Waldron, Arkansas, all the way to Tech every morning to help the library obtain, organize, bind, subscribe, and wrangle the library\u2019s periodical collection.\u00a0 Just about every newspaper, journal, ATU thesis, and microfilm roll since 1980 in this building has had her hands on it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>