On March 31st, 2011, Allen Smith Visiting Scholar Andrew Flinn gave a talk on the oral history tradition. This lecture, entitled “Telling our stories, creating our histories: Some reflections on the role of oral history in community history and archive projects” discusses the development of this democratizing practice from the end of World War II…
On Wednesday, March 30th, 2011, the Simmons ALA Student Chapter hosted a Professional Career Panel. Ann Kardos (Librarian, Mary Baker Eddy Library; Director-at-Large, GSLIS Alumni Board; Trustee, Somerville Public Library) and Enid Karr (Science Librarian, Boston College) returned to share their experiences in Boston’s professional community, giving students a great opportunity for professional development and…
On March 28th, 2011, the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science hosted a guest lecture by Ann Curry (Professor and Past Director, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta) entitled, “Bums, Poops, and Pees: A Scholarly Examination of Censoring the Scatological.” In this lecture, she discusses why children often find…
On March 27th, 2011, the Simmons GSLIS Alumni Executive Board hosted the Annual Career Panel at GSLIS West. The panel included Laura Robinson Hanlan, a Research & Instruction Librarian at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Meghan Petersen, a Librarian and Archivist for the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Amanda Chiplock, Director of…
On March 15th 2011, the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science hosted a talk entitled “My 7 Commandments: toward a theoretical model of happiness” as part of the Lunchtime Lectures series. Professor Naresh Agarwal spoke on his theory that a positive and holistic worldview can encourage happiness and personal growth. Extending beyond a…
On March 9th, 2011, NEASIS&T, the New England chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, hosted a conference at Simmons College. The topic was Content Management Systems. This event, “Content Management Systems for Dummies (or busy smarties looking for fast, simple solutions) talks about CMS projects and different CMS solutions. In this podcast,…
On March 9th, 2011, NEASIS&T, the New England chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, hosted a conference at Simmons. College. The topic was Content Management Systems. This event, “Content Management Systems for Dummies (or busy smarties looking for fast, simple solutions) talks about CMS projects and different CMS solutions. In this…
