I worked in the "sub-basement" of the Suzzallo Library back in the mid 70s. Suzzallo Library is the main library on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. I was the "PL 480 Clerk". "Public Law 480, also known as the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, is a US law that allows the president to send surplus food to other countries". In exchange for the US dollar, one of the ways those countries would repay the US was to send us back books of a “scholarly nature". That's where I came in. We had a huge collection of books from India, Pakistan, Tibet, and one other country I can't remember the name of (Nepal?), and my job was unpacking the boxes that came in every? day/week, sorting through them and recording them into a catalog of sorts. I also had a simple book loan system for students, professors, and mostly if I remember right, spouses of current students who were studying at UW. The PL 480 Clerk position was eliminated a few years later, after I left to pursue my dream of being a wood-worker. They had assigned a real Librarian to the program and moved the collection upstairs. I just thought of other memories from those years, which I will share later, but I want mention a good friend to this day whom I met when she came down to the sub-basement to help me with the PL480 program. Sujatha, thank you. Sujatha and her husband Mahinda have been friends of ours for over 50 years? To be continued... ps - Wow! I just googled Suzzallo to pull up this image, and they changed the name to "Suzzallo and Allen Libraries". Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates, was the son of Kenneth Allen, the Head of UW Libraries. Paul Allen was 8 years younger than me, and I know, in hindsight, I must have seen a 9 or 10yo kid wandering around Suzzallo when I worked there.