Claudia Monroe will retire from the Library on June 29th, bringing her highly productive Library career to a close after 24 years. Claudia joined the Library Copy Service, located on the first floor of Doe under the supervision of Charles Jackson, on October 1st, 1985. Nine months later she was moved to Boalt Hall to establish and run a new service point there, which she managed until 1995. At that time, the Library Copy Service was restructured, and Claudia was transferred to the Doe/Moffit Circulation Department's Reserves Processing Unit. The Reserves Processing Unit handled the largest course reserve operation in the Library system, processing between 300 and 400 lists a semester for virtually all undergraduate classes as well as graduate classes in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Claudia quickly mastered the intricacies of her new position, and along with her supervisor Barbara Kizziee and colleague Toni Walker, contributed to a wonderfully efficient team lauded by both students and faculty for its quick turn-around time and friendly service. Claudio also served part-time on the Moffit Circulation Desk under Meredith Fleming and on the Main Service (now Priviledges) Desk under Joyce Ford. In addition, she assisted with various circulation processing functions.

In 1998, we had the great luck to welcome the Course Reserve Unit into the Collections Core Services Division of Technical Services. On top of her work with Course Reserves, Claudia began placing orders on vendor systems and receiving and processing books needed for reserve that the library did not yet own. In the wake of the Library's Severance Incentive Program in 2004 and another move and restructuring of the Course Reserve Unit, Claudia became a valued and productive member of the CCS Ordering Unit under the leadership of Jim Gordon. During this latest phase of her career, Claudia has handled bibliographic checking and ordering for the Latin American, Music, and South/Southeast Asian collections, while continuing to order materials needed for undergraduate course reserves. Claudia also provides much-needed support for Main Stack replacement and out-of-print orders. Finally, Claudia received training in periodicals check-in and subsequently handled the receipt and check-in of US Depository Materials, which are highly difficult and require specialized training.

Although we will deeply miss our beloved and productive colleague, we are happy that Claudia will be able to spend more time with her family and friends, especially her husband Lloyd, who retired from the Department of Integrative Biology last year. A heartfelt thank you from all of your Library and Collections Core Services colleagues for all of your hard work, and we wish you the very best of luck in retirement!

Rebecca Green
Head, Collections Core Services Division

Jim Gordon
Head, Ordering Unit, Collections Core Services Division
Technical Services Department