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 November 14, 2012, GSLIS hosted an information session for its two summer study abroad programs, GSLIS in Rome and GSLIS in Seoul. Dean’s Fellow Bethany Fair gave an overview of the programs and answered student questions, while faculty from the programs, including Dean Michele Cloonan and Professors Kathy Wisser, Laura Saunders and Terry…
On November 8th, 2012, as a part of the Lunchtime Lecture series, Professor Millie Rahn gave a lecture entitled “Documenting Maine Indian History and Culture: A Case Study.” In this lecture, Professor Rahn discussed her contributions to a two- year ethnographic project by the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine to document Maine Indian…
On October 15, 2012, SCIRRT, the Student Chapter of the International Relations Roundtable, hosted a presentation by Elaine Martin, Andrew Creamer and Jim Comes entitled “Opportunities and Challenges in Global Health Information Access in Liberia”. These librarians talked about their experience working with the A. M. Dolgotti College of Medicine to establish a medical library…
On October 18th, 2012 as apart of the Lunchtime Lecture series professor Naresh Agarwal gave a lecture titled: Impact of Sense-Making: Application to a variety of context in different fields. This edition of GSLISCast is presented as an audio podcast with the accompanying slides from the lecture attached. Simmons GSLIS Graduate School of Library and…
On October 22nd, 2012 to recognize International Open Access Week, the Simmons Chapter of American Society of Information Science & Technology sponsored a discussion with Peter Suber and Professor Robin Peek. The two answered questions from the audience, and discussed the importance and current state of Open Access. Simmons GSLIS Graduate School of Library…
