KEARNEY, Neb., April 30 -- The University of Nebraska Kearney issued the following news release:

More than four decades into her career, Alta Krameris still helping University of Nebraska at Kearney students and faculty track down the information they need.

Currently the interlibrary loan/document delivery manager, Kramer started working at Calvin T. Ryan Library in 1981 and has since adapted to changes from print collections to digital databases and artificial intelligence.

Her path was shaped early by her mother's insistence on education.

"My mother wanted her girls to have an education so they could find a job that paid better than being an old maid or a wife. She had a women's lib streak to her," Kramer said. "I wanted to be an arti...