- Title Information
- Title
- Interview with Gayle Lynch
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Lynch, Gayle
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Bouchard, Karen
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- interviewer
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Cournoyer, Carina
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- moving image
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 2014-04-22
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
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Gayle Lynch begins by discussing how she decided on a whim to apply for a job at Brown
and was immediately hired to work in the library.She began typing German book orders for
Professor Schulz.She leraned to use the new technology of the keypunch machine and then
the Selectric electric typewriter with twelve carbon copies. She was promoted to secretary
to Harold Clark, head of the Order Department. She talks about moving over to Archives in 1972
and finding her niche. She discusses working with Brown alumni and others with Brown connections
and about how personable it was before technology took over. She talks about how she
and other members of the staff would do side jobs typing graduate students' dissertations
and how sorry she is that they no longer do subject headings for them. She talks about how there used
to be a New Members' Tea where staff could get to know one another, and how morale was improved.
She goes on to mention some embarassing moments concerning the library's lack of a dress code
and goes on to discuss the lingering bad effects on staff morale of the library's attempted reorganization.
She talks about the union's coming into the library and how she was grandfathered in and never joined.
She expresses regret at the university's becoming more corporate and less of a family.
Gayle talks about how students used to fill the library during exam periods, literally lying
all over the floor and how there was always food for the staff -- one time Mr Chang, head of
the East Asian Collection, taught them how to make eggrolls and they sold them to raise money.
She finishes by noting that they did a lot of fun things which greatly helped morale but the work always got done,
and now she is looking forward to retirement.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Alumni
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Archives
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Charles Churchwell
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Clothing and fashion
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Computers
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dissertation
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Food
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Harold Clark
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Helen Kurtz
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- I-Ming Chiang
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- John Hay Library
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Kay Moore
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Keypunch
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Library reorganization
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Library spaces
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Library union
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Martha Mitchell
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Robert Wedgeworth
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Special Collections
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Students
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Typewriters
- Genre (aat)
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- oral histories (literary works)
- Access Condition:
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- In Copyright
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.