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Though Frances Jacobson Harris and Runelle Shriver were the core of the Uni library through the entire decade, they were ably assisted by a string of graduate assistants and Uni student workers. If you had to pick one word to describe the library staff throughout the 1990s, the word "cool" would just spring to your lips.
Unfortunately, in a departure from the common practice of the 1980s, faculty and staff at Uni in the mid-to-late 1990s were captured only in small, posed, solo photos rather than candid group pics. Though easier on the Yearbook staff (trying to gather groups of Uni teachers is like herding jellyfish), the newer style is, to put it mildly, Dullsville. As a result, relatively few images from that long-gone era capture the above-mentioned coolness. This is the best we can do.
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They look so friendly. And they are! But the t-shirts tell you what the smiles don't: there's ferocity under that mild-mannered exterior. Just in case you can't read it, Ms. Jacobson's shirt reads "If you return that book more than two weeks late I will pour molten lead on your elbows because I am The Librarian." (1991) |
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In 1992, in an effort to improve the useability of the collection, Uni students aided Ms. Harris (then Ms. Jacobson) in removing from the library all of the books that were printed upside-down.* |
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| According to the Dictionary of Collective Nouns, a group of librarians is known as a "hush," a "catalog," a "whisper," or a "sheaf." Here, a 1994 yearbook photographer captured a sheaf of librarians revealing one of their most closely guarded secrets: most of them need help reading. |
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| From left to right, Maggie Urian, Jennifer Bueche, Runelle Shriver, and Frances Jacobson (still not Ms. Harris yet). |
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In 1995, graduate assistant Kathryn Howell led some less-than-perfectly-attentive subfreshmen through a remedial class on paper use. |
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