As reported in the Truro Daily News: Lynda Marsh (MLIS ’80) retired as Administrator of Youth Services at Truro Public Library after 37 years of service.

Congrats Lynda! We wish you all the best for your new chapter.

From the article (read the full story here):

Visitors to the Truro library will no longer see the familiar face of Lynda Marsh in the children’s department. After 37 years she has decided it’s time to retire. Friday was her last day on the job.

“I’m feeling good about retiring,” she said. “It’s sad but there are things I want to do and now I’ll have time.”

Marsh, who grew up in Toronto, wanted to work with children so she went to university for her teaching degree. Finding a job was difficult, so she returned to university and got a Masters in Library Services. She chose Dalhousie University because her sister had moved to Nova Scotia.

In November 1980, she started working at the Truro library.

“On my first day they showed me my office, with a pile of book review journals on the desk, and left me there,” she recalled.

She soon settled in, taking care of things like ordering books, running story time sessions and the summer reading club, and travelling with the children’s bookmobile to various schools.

[Photo credit: Lynn Curwin/Truro Daily News]