Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh employees and friends of Julie Kuchta and Denise Graham stopped by to celebrate their long careers, reminisce a bit and wish them well at a retirement party at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main’s South Wing Reading Room on Aug. 25.
They retired Friday, Sept. 2 after a combined 97 years of service, both advancing from clerks to managers. Both say they loved every day of their versatile roles in library science. And even though times have changed, and technology has greatly enhanced the services that libraries provide, they both say their relationships with people is what made the difference in their job satisfaction.
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
