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After Library
School Marsha's first job was at Augusta
College, Reese Library, Augusta, Georgia,
on Retrospective Conversion. To the layman
this means transferring the old library
card catalog system into computer data
files. While at Augusta Collage she also
dealt with the cataloging of the medical
library at one of the city's
hospitals.
She left
Augusta College in 1982 to get married and
spent a year in England with her husband,
returning to the U.S. in 1983 to take a 3
year job at Clemson University's Cooper
Library, again doing Retrospective
Conversion.
She first
became Acting Head of Cataloging, then
this temporary position became a permanent
one when the position of Head of
Cataloging became vacant.
She
devised the first Library web site, and
worked to update the University Faculty
Manual giving her a detailed knowledge of
it. This became valuable when she spent a
number of years on University Grievance
Committees working to advise the President
on the validity of grievances between
faculty members and the University.
In 1998
she added the Documents Dept. to her
Cataloging responsibilities, upon the
retirment of it's head, Maureen
Harris.
In
addition to her work tasks at Cooper
Library, Marsha was instrumental in the
creation of a novel system of staff
assessment based on a numerical
formula.
One of her
more recent tasks was the planning and
commissioning of a library remote storage
facility to handle overflow books from the
main library.
She had
been at Clemson University Library for a
little over 20 years.
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