On November 14, 2012 Alex Berman, 2011 GSLIS graduate, has traveled all the way from New York City to share what he has learned about real-life career opportunities for LIS students. Since he completed the GSLIS program, Alex has leanred that companies are constantly searching for the next best thing and more often than not…
On April 19th, 2012, Simmons Usability Professional Association hosted a lecture by Laura Bowden and Marguerite Bergel, entitled “Discount Usability Tools, Web Accessibility and User Experience.” Ms. Bowden and Ms. Bergel are usability researchers at Fidelity Investments. Simmons GSLIS Graduate School of Library and Information Science “Childhood, Op. 15 – IX. Knight Of The Hobbyhorse”…
On April 9th, 2012, Panopticon hosted a lecture by Ann Whiteside, Librarian and Assistant Dean for Information Resources at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her lecture, titled “Changing Roles for Librarians: One Person’s View” explores the shifting roles of scholars and librarians during this time of transition into digital scholarship through different digital humanities…
On April 3rd, 2012, Simmons GSLIS hosted a Lunchtime Lecture with Assistant Professor Mary Wilkins Jordan who talks about how technology can be used to bring people back into nature. Her talk titled “Humans at the Intersection of Nature & Technology” covers her research into the use of the popular “Global GPS Cache Hunt Site”…
On March 30th, 2012, PLG and ALASC hosted a lecture by Virginia Eubanks, co-founder of “Our Knowledge, Our Power: Surviving Welfare” and a professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Albany. Virginia discusses her book “Digital Dead End”, and argues that ideas about how high-tech development can move us towards social equality are based…
On March 29, 2012, the newly formed Simmons Usability Professional Association (SUPA) and Simmons ASIS&T hosted a talk by Liz Pardi and Kate Lawrence of EBSCO Publishing on usability testing on mobile devices. People are mobile, and usability testing must follow suit in order to keep up with today’s wireless lifestyle. Simmons GSLIS Graduate School…
On March 15th, 2012, Panopticon hosted a guest lecture with David Dwiggins entitled, Collections Access Project Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Chenhalls Nomenclature. Can librarians, archivists, and museum professionals ever see eye-to-eye? Can their collections be presented side-by-side? Would users benefit if they were? When Historic New England, the nation’s oldest…
