Happy Retirement to Amie Pifer!
Longtime Libraries employee, Amie Pifer, will retire on January 6, 2025 after 26 years of service to the CMU Libraries.
Amie joined the library in May 1998 as a Serials Bookkeeper before being promoted to Coordinator of Serials Operations in September 1999. In August 2003 she became the library’s Office Manager for library acquisitions, before spending the last six-and-a-half years in the CMU Libraries as the Director of the Acquisitions and Resources Management department.
During her time at CMU, Amie was a part of many significant library initiatives. More than 500,000 new books (both print and electronic) were processed through her department and added to the collections since 1998. She was also involved in the moves of the Instructional Materials Center and Music Resource Center collections to the Park Library from Ronan Hall and the Music Building, respectively. She learned and worked in three separate library management systems and processed older materials out of the collections as part of numerous space renovation projects, including the Copeland Suite, 3 East, and the recent 1st floor renovations.
Amie and her departmental colleagues also remained in the library building during the major Park Library renovation and expansion from 1999 -2001. Completing their work amid the racket and dust of construction crews gutting the building and building it anew from the ground up was an adventure unto itself.
Thank you, Amie, for all your hard work and great service to your colleagues and our users over the years. Best wishes for a very happy retirement!