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Simmons GSLIS is pleased to announce that Professor Jeannette Bastian will be serving as Acting Dean for the Spring 2011 semester while Dean Michele Cloonan is on sabbatical. Bastian came to Simmons in 1999 and has been the Director of the Archives Management Program since that time. Until January 2011, she was Co-Director of the Dual Degree in History and Archives Management. Prior to coming to Simmons, she was the Director of Libraries and Archives and the Territorial Librarian of the U.S. Virgin Islands. She received her master's in library science from Shippensburg University, a master's degree (M.Phil.) in Caribbean Literature from the University of the West Indies (Jamaica), and her doctoral degree at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Science. She has published extensively in the areas of archives and memory studies. For more information, please see http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/people/faculty/full-time/bastian.php
During her sabbatical, Dean Cloonan will be writing two books for which she is under contract and working with the University of Delaware and the North Bennet Street School to bring up our new Mellon grant. She will return to Simmons July 1, 2011.
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