PITTSBURGH, Kansas — Pittsburgh librarians call it a career.
Steven Cox has worked with Pittsburgh State University’s special collections for the past eight years.
He curates nearly 500 collections on topics such as the socialist history of southeastern Kansas and mining in Pittsburgh, and curates and processes material for use by researchers around the world.
It’s a job he loves, and he says it will be hard to leave.
“This is one of the dangers of working with a collection like this. We spend two hours in a different direction than we wanted to go. That’s one of the fun and interesting parts of the job,” says Special Collections curator/archivist Stephen Cox.
Cox graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and a Master’s degree in Library Science from the University of Kentucky.
Then, after spending about 15 years at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Special Collections, he moved to Pittsburgh to be closer to his hometown of Fayetteville.
He is currently planning a trip with his wife after retirement.
