Best wishes Renate Sachse!

Renate served the college library for 35 years! She's seen everything; extensive library renovations in 1983, advent of catalog automation in 1988, dedication of Martin Library of the Sciences in 1991, lobby flood and system migration in 2002, and all sorts of new staff, new duties, new products and services and THOUSANDS of students!

Renate was one of the first librarians to represent the library at SirsiDynix conferences, traveling for a dozen years to St. Louis, then Nashville, Colorado Springs and Detroit. Renate was an enthusiastic champion of many of our marketing efforts, such as Wake Up in the Library and Librarian House Calls, and a regular at so many Modern Language events.

We will truly miss Renate's good humor and genuine spirit, and we wish her all the best and safe & fun travels in retirement!



Alles Gute = Good Luck



Renate gets the first piece of cake, with a bright red rose.



Renate and Carol Kornhauser, with Jeff Brethauer and Chuck Leayman in the background.



Mike Horn put together a terrific memory book, with staff pictures and best wishes.

Wake Up in the Library!

The Library held our semi-annual Wake Up event on June 5, to meet & greet our alumni. We got to meet and re-unite with over 50 alums from so many classes, many from 1960, 1980, 2000, and of course 2005, which gifted the Library with the wonderful new patio shown in the previous post.

Good to see everyone. Please come back soon!

Shad-Fack has a new patio

In just a few days our old concrete patio at the Shad-Fack front steps was removed, and a sparkling new brick patio was installed. Here are a few pics of before & after.


(photo credit: Jenn Buch)


(photo credit: Mike Lear/Christopher Raab)


(photo credit: Mike Lear/Christopher Raab)


(photo credit: Mike Lear/Christopher Raab)

Many thanks to the Class of 2005 for funding our new patio!