From Farm to Rare Books: UVA Librarian Celebrates 55 Years on the Job

When Gayle Cooper was a little girl picking cotton on her family’s subsistence farm in Alabama, she had no idea she would go on to consult for a Pulitzer Prize winner, handle some of the University of Virginia Library’s rarest holdings and become one of the library’s longest-serving employees. She has worked for the University for 55 years.