MARCELLE MARSHALL, Victor Gibson and Debbie Brathwaite have served the Erdiston Teachers’ Training College for multiple decades. Marshall, joined the staff complement 39 years ago and has served as the organisation’s caretaker. One year later, Victor Gibson started as the Audio Visual Technician and has seen many changes at the college in the past 38 years. “I would have seen changes in the technology
He noted that over the years, some of his duties changed to meet the needs of the College. At present, his post is that of Technician 1 and his duties include servicing and maintaining the electronic equipment in addition to facilitating their use in the classroom. the College. She joined the library’s staff 29 years ago as Library Assistant 3, but prior to officially becoming employed on February 13, 1990, Brathwaite gained hands-on experience volunteering at the library’s circulation desk where her sister Wavney Brathwaite worked as a library assistant at the time.
Brathwaite dispelled the notion that being a librarian is centred around a love for reading. She explained that instead, her love was for information and she described the management of information in a library as a science. She spoke passionately about her role saying, “Technology makes the process a whole lot easier. I came when we were using typewriters with ribbons and before we had to use cue cards to index journals, now we use the Ebscohost database.”
accurate and efficient.” Debbie Brathwaite currently functions in the role of Library Assistant 1 with responsibility for the Maureen Lucas Library at
