Robert Walls, Director. Front row: Barbara Eades, Cathy Olson, Nancy Rearden, and Alice Rowland; Back row: Nancy Allworth, Sue Skelton, and Barbara Custer.
Robert Walls, Director. Front row: Barbara Eades, Cathy Olson, Nancy Rearden, and Alice Rowland; Back row: Nancy Allworth, Sue Skelton, and Barbara Custer.
Elzie Herbert was an orders librarian at Oregon State College from 1920 to 1952. Herbert was born in 1887, in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Before coming to work at Oregon State, she taught an introduction class to stenography at Vance Business College, and was an office manager at Black Planing Mill Co. in Pennsylvania. She was brought on as a stenographer at Oregon State in 1920 at an annual salary of $1,300. She was widowed with one daughter when she came to work at Oregon State. She was soon appointed to secretary and order clerk at the library. In 1927, she was promoted to head of the Library Order Department. She retained this position until her retirement in 1952. She passed away in 1971.