Lucia Haley

Title: Lucia Haley
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Libraries
Creator: Hise Studio
Description: Lucia Haley was an assistant librarian at Oregon State from 1921 to 1952. Haley was born in 1887, in Fryeburg, Maine. She received her Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) degree in 1911 from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Liberal Studies (B.L.S.) from Pratt Institute. Before coming to work at Oregon State, Haley was a cataloger for the Seattle Public Library, and for the Oregon State Library, and as a librarian for the University of Montana. She was also an active member in the Pacific Northwest Library Association. Haley took sabbatical leave in 1929 in order to travel to other libraries across the United States and Europe to learn how to improve Oregon State’s library. She also used this time to improve her French and German so she could translate periodical literature. In 1937, Haley attended a summer session at the University of California to learn Russian. Haley had noticed a growing trend in materials coming into the library from the Soviet Union that were in Russian, where they had previously been written in English, German, or French. Haley understood the importance of being able to translate these documents, especially Soviet research in soils, horticulture, and farm crops, for Oregon State, so she took it upon herself to learn Russian. She retired in 1952, after 31 years of service. OSC awarded her with emeritus status upon her retirement for her contributions to the college. She passed away in 1975.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1947
Identifier: P092:0044
Rights: In Copyright
Local Collection Name: President's Office Photographs, 1923-1998 (P 092)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center Historical Images of Oregon State University
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Institution: Oregon State University