Gilreath, 'Dora Zia to Retire', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v1994n00 (Gilreath Charles)
_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 21 no. 11
June 1994
Gilreath, Charles L.02
"Dora Zia to Retire"


On June 30, 1994, Dora Zia will retire as head of the 
Veterinary Medical Library (VML).  She has successfully 
expanded the information services at VML during her tenure in 
this position, increasing the number of electronic research 
products available to users and providing VML staff with 
additional training to respond to reference queries.

Her retirement is the culmination of a varied and distinguished 
career in libraries throughout the Triangle.  Before assuming 
her duties at VML, Zia headed the library at Becton Dickinson 
for thirteen years.  After retiring from Becton Dickinson, she 
worked in a temporary capacity in the NCSU Libraries' 
Reference Department and served several months as acting 
head of VML before taking on the position full time in July 
1991.  She served as a library consultant with the State 
Library of North Carolina earlier in her career, where she was 
responsible for organizing collections and training staff to 
operate in-house libraries in eight state agencies.  In the 
1960s, Zia worked as acting head of the Tobacco Literature 
Service and was the chemistry librarian at UNC-Chapel Hill.