Jean Borgatti is a lecturer on African and African American Art History. She is currently a Research Associate at Clark University and has served as a guest lecturer at both Simmons and Salem State College during the past 2007-2008 school year. On October 31, 2007 she presented a talk entitled “(Re)Capturing Africa: The Art of…
Kate Sheehan, an alumnae of GSLIS-West, is the current coordinator of automation at the Danbury Public Library in Danbury, CT. On Saturday October 27th at the offices of GSLIS West in South Hadley, Kate presented “Social Networking in Public Libraries”. Kate highlighted uses for LibraryThing in public libraries. The Danbury Public Library is the first…
On Thursday, October 18th, 2007, the GSLIS Alumni Executive Board hosted A Career and Library and Information Science: Strategies, Choices & Insights. This career panel featured GSLIS alumns; Kathryn Hammond Baker, Olivia Gatti, Erin Logsdon, and Kyle Nicholls and was sponsored in part by InfoCurrent. Simmons GSLISGraduate School of Library and Information Science InfoCurrentEvent Sponsor…
In October of 2005, Simmons College received a $1.8 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to train a new generation of Vietnamese librarians for leadership roles. Professor Pat Oyler, who oversees the grant, has been working with Vietnamese librarians for more than 13 years. This report describes a 10 week program of four GSLIS courses,…
