The Arkansas Tech University library staff will host a retirement reception celebrating Frances Hager at 1 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 23, in Ross Pendergraft Library and Technology Center room 325.
All are invited to attend.
Hager is retiring after 28 years as a librarian at Tech. She received her Master of Library Science degree from the University of North Texas and her bachelor’s degree in English from John Brown University.
Prior to coming to Tech, she was an assistant archivist at the University of Central Arkansas, a library clerk at Rogers-Hough Memorial Library in Rogers, a library assistant at Boston College Science Library and an elementary school librarian at the Donna Independent School District in Donna, Texas.
While at Arkansas Tech, she managed acquisitions, serials and government documents. Hager also served as the library liaison to the departments of English, agriculture, emergency management, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering, performing collection development and fielding research questions in those areas. In addition, she served as one of the reference librarians and provided expert research assistance for a variety of disciplines, particularly in the area of government resources.
Hager was the recipient of the 2013 Arkansas Library Association’s Distinguished Service Award, and has chaired multiple committees for the Arkansas Library Association. She has authored many articles in Arkansas Libraries magazine and has given several presentations for the Arkansas Library Association’s annual conference and the Federal Depository Library Conference in Arlington, Va.
She is one of the state’s leaders in the field of government documents librarianship, and she has helped curate Arkansas Tech’s 93 year-old U.S. Federal Depository Program collection.
