Chancellor Jack Reese and Library Director Donald Hunt spoke at opening ceremonies for the UT Libraries’ online GEAC computer circulation system on September 29, 1983. This was the third public ceremony concerning implementation of the automated system. In November 1982 Cornelia Hodges, widow of Dr. John C. Hodges, bar-coded the first book on the computer. In May 1983 the first official library patron, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Walter Herndon, had his ID card bar-coded. The first book checked out with the new system at the September 23 ceremony was John Donne: Life, Mind and Art by John Carey. Chancellor Jack Reese checked it out.