Most of us take pride in conscientiously following our own job description. But once in a while we meet someone who goes so far beyond simply fulfilling his or her work requirements that it's hard to imagine that all of these accomplishments were performed by one person.
Margaret "Gigi" Lincoln, Lakeview School District Librarian and part-time instructor in the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University, is a sterling example.
Gigi first came to Lakeview High School as librarian in 1973, holding a Bachelor's degree in French and a Master'ss degree in Library Science. But in 2006, at age 57, she also completed a Distance-Independent Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in information science from the University of North Texas.
In 1990, she organized a "Reach for a Star, Ask a Librarian" contest in which students wrote to celebrities, requesting an article of memorabilia in connection with National Library Week. Some 80 celebrities responded, Dr. Seuss with personalized artwork, Willie Mays with a baseball and Nobel Prize winning chemist Dr. Yuan T. Lee with a letter.
Over the years, due to Gigi's efforts, several individuals and exhibitions have come to Battle Creek. Senator Carl Levin spoke at Lakeview in 1981. Oscar Schindler and Life and Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust (traveling exhibitions from Washington D.C.) were on display in 2002 and 2005 and viewed by more than 8,000 adults and students.
With funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Gigi brought Gerda Weissmann Klein, Holocaust survivor, author, and recent recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to speak to the community in 2007. This past spring Gigi arranged for Michigan's new governor, Rick Snyder, a Lakeview alumnus, to give the keynote address at Lakeview's National Honor Society Induction.
An American Memory Fellow with the Library of Congress since 2000, Gigi is now one of 19 educators selected by the Library to support colleagues nationwide in their use of digitized primary sources.
Margaret "Gigi" Lincoln, Lakeview School District Librarian and part-time instructor in the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University, is a sterling example.
Gigi first came to Lakeview High School as librarian in 1973, holding a Bachelor's degree in French and a Master'ss degree in Library Science. But in 2006, at age 57, she also completed a Distance-Independent Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in information science from the University of North Texas.
In 1990, she organized a "Reach for a Star, Ask a Librarian" contest in which students wrote to celebrities, requesting an article of memorabilia in connection with National Library Week. Some 80 celebrities responded, Dr. Seuss with personalized artwork, Willie Mays with a baseball and Nobel Prize winning chemist Dr. Yuan T. Lee with a letter.
Over the years, due to Gigi's efforts, several individuals and exhibitions have come to Battle Creek. Senator Carl Levin spoke at Lakeview in 1981. Oscar Schindler and Life and Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust (traveling exhibitions from Washington D.C.) were on display in 2002 and 2005 and viewed by more than 8,000 adults and students.
With funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Gigi brought Gerda Weissmann Klein, Holocaust survivor, author, and recent recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to speak to the community in 2007. This past spring Gigi arranged for Michigan's new governor, Rick Snyder, a Lakeview alumnus, to give the keynote address at Lakeview's National Honor Society Induction.
An American Memory Fellow with the Library of Congress since 2000, Gigi is now one of 19 educators selected by the Library to support colleagues nationwide in their use of digitized primary sources.
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