- Date Of Birth: February 25, 1931
- Date Of Death: February 8, 2022
- State: Maine
Brunswick-Donna Glee Lockard Sciascia,90, died Tuesday, February 8, 2022, at Sunnybrook Village. She was born February 25, 1931, in a sod house in Goodland Kansas. Her parents were farmers, but her father had previously been a cowboy and her mother a teacher in a one room schoolhouse. After graduating high school in 1949, she earned a B.A. in English Literature from the College of Emporia, in Emporia Kansas and a M.S. in Library Science from the University of Denver in Denver Colorado. As the wife of a member of the Armed Forces she lived in various locations in the United States and worked as a librarian at locations such as the University of Hawaii, West Point Military, and Loring Air Force Base, before settling in Bath and working in the Bowdoin College Library. At Bowdoin, she worked converting the card catalog from the Dewey Decimal system to the Library of Congress system. As part of her duties, she successfully catalogued library materials in languages that she didn’t speak, such as Russian. After her retirement from Bowdoin in 1993, she accepted a two-year assignment at the University of Nevada, Reno Library, where she worked in cataloging Basque language literature, another language she did not speak.
