Category Archives: Archives/History Dual Degree

Digital Preservation Course

March 10, 2013
JessiBen
– 4:29 pm

This semester I am taking a class called Digital Preservation. I haven’t had much previous experience with coding and such so this class has really taken me out of my comfort zone yet I can see just how useful it can be in not only the current archives field but in libraries as well. I [...]

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A Blend of History and Archives

February 3, 2013
JessiBen
– 3:18 pm

As a dual degree student in Archives and History, I have one foot in the LIS (Library and Information Science) world and one in the CAS (College of Arts and Sciences) at Simmons. At times it can be a little frustrating since I’m dealing with two different departments but a lot of the time there [...]

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Dorm Living as a Grad Student

October 7, 2012
JessiBen
– 7:21 pm

Many undergrads cannot wait to get out of the dorms and get their own place, so it almost seems a little backwards to go into the dorms as a grad student…and to stay there for a second year. As all my friends moved into apartments after their first year in GSLIS, I stayed. Not actually [...]

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Archivists in Library School

September 16, 2012
Danielle Geller
– 6:47 pm

Last week, I briefly mentioned that I decided I no longer wanted to pursue my Masters in History (at this time!), and I will be focusing solely on my Archives Management concentration. I made this decision due to a number of factors, including cost and time constraints, but also a desire to just get out [...]

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Archiving Hate

June 2, 2012
Katie
– 8:53 am

Just a word of warning – this post is not going to be very cheery. As I wrote a few weeks ago, my current History class is on Race & Media. We’ve talked a lot about the subject of lynching and there is some important information that I’d like to pass on. First of all, [...]

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Program Change

April 3, 2012
Elise Dunham
– 1:06 pm

For the second week in a row, Danielle’s post has provided a great springboard for mine. She discussed how many of her friends/colleagues in the program have been questioning their concentrations in GSLIS. I began my career at Simmons GSLIS as a dual-degree History/Archives student. For a better part of this semester, I had been [...]

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GSLIS After Dark

May 25, 2010
Colleen Mahoney
– 8:48 am

I feel like “GSLIS After Dark” sounds like the name to some sort of horror movie; instead, it was this year’s alumni celebration. Combine a reunion with a retirement party with an award ceremony, and you get the evening of May 6th. Current students and alumni of the program mingled and enjoyed dinner (the reunion [...]

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History

April 1, 2010
Colleen Mahoney
– 9:13 am

I realized this morning that although I write a lot on here about my LIS classes and activities, I’ve shamefully neglected the History program (in case you forgot, I’m enrolled in the Archives/History dual degree program). In each history class for this program, you have to write a final paper based on original research, about [...]

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