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than we can catalogue here, and the usual old words can’t do her justice, so have these: “Intersectional AF”, ally, force-of- nature, legend, crackers! Lynne at a 6 was most people at a 9+. Strangers would think it hyperbolic if we were to try and index all her qualities, but those who knew Lynne, KNOW. And those of you that didn’t; we hope you all know that one colleague you can bear any boring training session with if you can grab a drink after and who makes menial tasks tolerable when they’re around because it’s fun to hang-out.
We hoped we could keep her in the NHS libraries game where she’d continue to shine, but we knew we’d have a job on our hands because her talents would take her so many places. Lynne Mackie COULD NOT be contained in any sense; not in the many escape rooms she busted-out of, not in any library, certainly not in an obituary. So, after making her amazing con- tribution and leaving her mark on us, and our users – she’s off
Ali Sinai A
li Sinai died 4 May, 2020, in Santa Clara, California, USA. He was born 5 January, 1934, in Tehran, Iran, and grew up in the town of Sari, on the Southern Coast of the Caspian Sea, and Tehran. His love of books was evident early on, when he started up Academic, a book-seller to Univer- sities and students. He received a B.A. in French from Tehran University in 1957, a Certificate in Library Science, Ameri- can University of Beirut in 1964, and an M.A. in Library Studies with Commendation, from Queens University, Bel- fast, in 1966.
He was a Chartered
Librarian of the British Library Association. Upon return to his native
Iran he co-founded the Iranian Documentation Center, IRAN- DOC, with John Harvey serving as an advisor, and served as its Director. He later served as the Director for the Library of Med- ical Sciences of Iran and Dean, School of Health Librarianship and Information Science, University of Medical Sciences of Iran. He taught as a Professor of Library Science at Tehran University and served as the President of the Iranian Library Association for two terms. He was instrumental in introducing the theory and practice of Library Science in Iran, and as a UNESCO advisor facilitated the same in the region. He authored several papers and books, amongst them “Collection Building in Libraries” in two volumes (1998). He is survived by his wife, Faranik, two sons, and a daughter.
Ebrahim Emrani, Master of Library and Information Science; University of Tehran
now to do her new thing, always up to something cool. Lynne found it mildly embarrassing or condescending when she was called inspirational (it tells you a lot that it happened so often, by the way) so we’ll all just continue to think it. It feels so strange to write about her in the past tense when she is still a going concern for us and will remain so: we’ll carry on her good work.
Stamma, Stammily, and the Scottish Stammering Network have created a fund to support young people who stammer in the world of arts and theatre in her name at
https://justgiving.com/ campaign/lynneMackie, please do donate if you can.
Lynne’s Barts Health friends and colleagues.
For obituary submissions and guidance please email
infopromag@cilip.org.uk or write to us at Obituaries, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE.
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