Margaret A. Villeneuve

Title: Margaret A. Villeneuve
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Libraries
Description: Margaret Ann Villeneuve was a circulation assistant from 1937 to 1940. She was born in 1912 in Taylor, Washington. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Library Science from the University of Washington in 1933, where she completed additional study in contemporary English and American Literature. Throughout her university schooling, she was a clerical assistant at the Columbia Branch of Seattle Public Library, where she spent eight years. She then spent two years as a circulation assistant at the Seattle Public Library. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was the treasurer of the Pacific Northwest Library Association in 1936. She was hired at $1600 per year. Lucy M. Lewis, the Director of Libraries, considered Villeneuve one of her “most valued members of the Executive Board,” for her work with the Pacific Northwest Library Association. She offered Villeneuve a position over the summer for $1500, which she did not accept. The circulation department then experienced a “complete turnover”--one resignation for marriage, and three for better salaries--and Lewis insisted that she needed an experienced assistant whom she trusted, and for that they needed to pay better salaries. Villeneuve resigned in 1940 to accept a position with the Boise Public Library.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1937-09-08
Identifier: P092:0686
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