Career
Harris was educated at the University of Texas at Austin and began her career as a manuscript cataloguer at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center, where she worked from 1973-1980.
From 1981-1987, she was the head of Columbia University Libraries’ Preservation Division. After teaching in Columbia University’s preservation and conservation library science program, she was named program director in 1990. When the program closed in 1992, she moved it to the University of Texas at Austin. From 1992-1994, she was Director and a Senior Lecturer of the Preservation and Conservation Studies at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas at Austin.
She published extensively throughout her career and was President of the Resources and Technical Services Division of the American Library Association from 1988-1989. Her writings in the field of conservation and preservation won her the Jon Brubaker Award from the Catholic Library Association in 198. 3 and The Rex Dillow Award in 1990.
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