Congratulations to Marcy Lisiecki, Librarian Senior, who will soon be celebrating her 44th anniversary with Advocate Aurora. Just a few days later, February 25, 2022, she will start enjoying her well-earned retirement after a long and successful career in the Medical Library at St. Luke’s.
Marcy started at St. Luke’s Hospital Library in 1978 while earning her bachelor’s degree from Alverno College. Back then the library was open 7 am-midnight and Marcy worked second shift. During those late-night hours, Marcy helped countless residents, fellows, nurses, and many others find literature and evidence to support their learning, patient care, research, and pursuit for additional degrees.
Over her years as a librarian, Marcy has worked on many projects to support making resources available for library users. She has made thousands of print books, online books, and other resources accessible for use in the library or, more often now, online from anywhere. She mentored many library interns as they assisted with projects and went on to earn their master’s degrees.
Marcy has seen many changes at the department and institution level including St. Luke’s Hospital’s merger with Sinai Samaritan to form the seed of Aurora Health Care in 1987 and the merger to Advocate Aurora Health over 30 years later. She has many fond memories of St. Luke’s leaders including Ed Howe, Nick Turkal, Marie Golanowski, and more. At the department level she moved offices many times, saw the advent of computers and technology in libraries, and facilitated the transition from print materials to online tools that can be used 24/7 from anywhere in the world.
In addition to all that, she is a friend to animals and even rescued stray cats at St. Luke’s. After a mother cat and her three kittens spent the summer living outside the St. Luke’s Library patio, Marcy started feeding and taking care of them. Before the weather got too cold, Marcy took the mother cat and all three kittens home. Mittens, the longest-lived of the bunch, turned out to be a friendly house cat who never lost her mousing instincts and liked to catch chipmunks in the backyard.
The Advocate Aurora Library team is so grateful to Marcy for all her hard work over the years, but more importantly for her kindness, smiles, and one-of-a-kind laugh that always kept us in good spirits. We will miss you, Marcy!
A heartfelt congratulations on your retirement.
Marcy celebrating her 40th anniversary in 2018.
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