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Cynthia
B. Duncan's tenure at the Old Dominion University Library, 1977 to 1991,
was distinguished by a number of firsts. She was the first woman library
director, as well as the first library director with a doctorate. As dean,
she held the highest academic appointment any woman had held at Old Dominion
up until that time. The library was forever changed as a result of Dr. Duncan's
leadership. The library became the first in Virginia to be fully automated,
in 1982.
Additionally, Duncan was responsible for having the library's online catalog linked to the campus computer network and to the Tidewater Consortium. She had public InfoTrac workstations placed in the reference department and later established the Automated Reference Center. She also began the first Inter-Library Loan document delivery system for Tidewater Consortium Libraries. Duncan blazed the trail that led the library to become the fully-automated information resource that it is today.
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