At left is Joseph Z. Nitecki, Director of the University Library at the State University of New York at Albany, and Roger D. Gifford, Head of Library Systems, looking at a GEAC 8000 minicomputer system. The system was composed of multiple racks that held tape and disk drives. There are crop marks on all sides of the original.
An unidentified male student doing research, using the downtown campus library card catalog. The library is housed in Hawley Hall and the student is associated with the Allen (James E. Allen, Jr.) Collegiate Center, which was an experimental senior year of high school and freshman year of college combined, providing a Bachelor of Arts degree in three years. The center closed in 1976. There are crop marks on all sides of the photograph. The library in Hawley Hall was dedicated as the Thomas E. Dewey Graduate Library for Public Affairs and Policy on September 8, 1988, named after the former New York State Governor.
An unidentified male student studying in the downtown campus library in Hawley Hall. He is associated with the Allen (James E. Allen, Jr.) Collegiate Center, which was an experimental senior year of high school and freshman year of college combined, providing a Bachelor of Arts degree in three years. The center closed in 1976. There are crop marks on all sides of the photograph. The library in Hawley Hall was dedicated as the Thomas E. Dewey Graduate Library for Public Affairs and Policy on September 8, 1988, named after the former New York State Governor.
Two unidentified students using the collection in the downtown campus library, housed in Hawley Hall. The students reportedly are associated with the Allen (James E. Allen, Jr.) Collegiate Center, which was an experimental senior year of high school and freshman year of college combined, providing a Bachelor of Arts degree in three years. The center closed in 1976. There are crop marks on two sides of the photograph. The library in Hawley Hall was dedicated as the Thomas E. Dewey Graduate Library for Public Affairs and Policy on September 8, 1988, named after the former New York State Governor.
A picture of Emmett B. Fields, President of the State University of New York at Albany (the name of the university at the time of this photograph and was so from August 1962 until the fall of 1986) from July 1, 1975?1977, with Maria L. Zych (of the University Library) and Frederick E. Tesch (of the Dept. of Psychology), who both received teaching awards.
Mary Osielski, Class of 1964, seated at her desk cataloging books in the University Library on the uptown campus. At the time the photo was taken she was employed as a cataloger and known as Mary Young.
At right is John Linford, Head of Systems Development in the University Libraries, with Kevin [?], computer operator at the SUNY (State University of New York) Central Computer Center. The University Libraries' computers were housed at SUNY Central in the early years of library automation.
Francis McMahon Kennedy, right, presents to Evan R. Collins and Alice Hastings a book purchased from the Library Fund established by the Class of 1933. Duplicate of image 6119.