View of Upchurch explaining magazine swing file to students during a library tour. On verso: Library tour for 103b Eng. Spring, 1956. Grace Upchurch talking to students. Magazine swing file. [engr. Instr. For Razorback]."Grace Upchurch enrolled at the University of Arkansas in 1927, where she worked as a student assistant in the library, then located in Old Main. After her graduation in 1929, the library employed her on a full-time basis. She did take time off, however, to earn a bachelor of arts degree in library science from the University of Illinois in 1933. At her retirement in 1970, Grace Upchurch had worked forty-three years at the University Library" (Finding aid, Upchurch Family Papers)