Bessie G. Tressler

Title: Bessie G. Tressler
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Libraries
Description: Bessie Gyneth Tressler was a librarian from 1946 to 1969. She was born in 1903 in Emporia, Kansas. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at the College of Emporia in 1926, where she studied music. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Library Science from the University of Illinois in 1930, and attended further study at the University of Chicago. Before coming to OSC, she had sixteen years of experience in library work, having been a cataloger and assistant librarian in several different libraries. She was hired as an Order Assistant at $2,400 per year. Since most of her training was in cataloging, her supervisors planned to transfer her to the Catalog Department as soon as there was an opening. She became an assistant professor in 1948, an associate professor in 1953, and became the Head Order Librarian in 1965. In 1967, she was appointed as the Head of Acquisitions Department. She took sabbatical leave from January-April of 1957, which she used to explore college and university libraries throughout New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia, in addition to visiting agents, publishers, out-of-print dealers ad magazine agents in New York City and Boston. She was earning $13,020 at time of her retirement in 1969. She was given Emeritus status, after spending 23 years at OSC, for her contributions to the library. She was a member of the American Library Association and the American Association of University Women.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1935
Identifier: P092:0621
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