 He returned to Chapel Hill, graduating in 1951 with a master's degree in political science and in 1953 a bachelor's degree in library science.He then held positions at the Livingston State Teachers College in Alabama from 1953 to 1955) and served as a librarian at Emory University from 1955 to 1962.Farber was highly regarded as a leader and authority on the subject of bibliographic instruction, he began hosting conferences on the subject at Earlham College in 1977.