Lynn Brooks:  

CLASS OF 1961
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Sioux rapids, IA

Lynn's Story

Lynn Brooks was born in a small farming community in Northwest Iowa, and grew up on a farm nearby until he attended St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minnesota. Lynn's wife Marilyn grew up on a farm a mile away; they met when they were three years old and rode the same school bus K through 12. Marilyn attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, and later received her M.S. in Nursing Science from Catholic University and her adult nurse practitioner certification from the University of Maryland. She was in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and spent one year in Vietnam at Cu Chi as a MASH nurse. Marilyn and Lynn married and moved after college graduation to the Washington, D.C. area, where Lynn attended two years at the School of Graduate Studies, University of Maryland. He then worked in defense intelligence for two years before entering what was called then Electronic Data Processing and is now called Information Technology at the Library of Congress. Lynn was a lead designer in implementing the Library's in-house-developed bibliographic online input, update, and retrieval system called MUMS, based on the MARC record format. Between 1992 and 1999, Lynn made ten trips to Ukraine to assist the Parliament of Ukraine in technology assistance, and then from 1999 through 2002, he made three trips to the Russian Federation to assist the two major national libraries in the Russian Federation in digital...Expand for more
scanning endeavors. Lynn spent the last eleven years of his career establishing and running the Library¿s Digital Scan Center, which was responsible for scanning the most valuable and fragile treasures of the Library. He regards ¿The Empire That Was Russia¿ online exhibition as his greatest accomplishment, and attended the physical exhibition's opening in Moscow in 2003. Lynn retired from the Library of Congress in early 2004, after 35.5 years, 2.5 years of which were spent commuting Monday, Lynchburg to Washington and back on Thursday night. In 2001, Marilyn and Lynn established the Ivy Creek Bed & Breakfast on Link Road in Lynchburg. Lynn received several merit awards at the Library and was one of two Library of Congress employees to receive a distinguished service award from the Verkhovna Rada, the Parliament of Ukraine. He participated in the City of Lynchburg Citizen¿s Academy four years ago. He is a past member of the board of Historic Sandusky and was a member of the Greater Lynchburg Tourism Task Force Committee; he currently is on the board at Old City Cemetery, and a member of Kiwanis. Lynn considers his most significant, lasting achievement to be the effort he spearheaded on Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944). Marilyn concluded twenty-one years as Manager, Occupational Health Services, National Cancer Research Center at Fort Detrick, Maryland, to open the B and B.
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