Simmons College GSLIS is pleased to welcome three new faculty members during the 2011-2012 academic year.
Joel A. Blanco-Rivera is a doctoral candidate at the University of
Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. His research interests are
the study of the relation between archives and transitional justice in
Latin America, government accountability, government secrecy, and social
memory. He has an MSI with specialization in archive and records
management from the School of Information at the University of Michigan.
From 2004 to 2005 he was a lecturer at the University of Puerto Rico's
Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies where he taught
courses for the certificate in archives and records management. His
dissertation research is a case study of the work of the National
Security Archive in the context of transitional justice in Latin
America. It focuses on the efforts of this organization to obtain U.S.
declassified records for investigations about past human rights
violations in Latin America. He will be teaching in the Archives area at
Simmons beginning in Spring 2012.
Rebecca Morris is completing her Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh,
School of Information Sciences; her dissertation topic is the response
of listener-viewers in digital storytelling in the school library. She
has taught courses in school library management, young adult resources
and services, and storytelling; she also supervised school library
practicum students. Rebecca has a professional background in K-12
teaching and librarianship as an elementary classroom teacher and middle
school librarian. She earned her MLIS and School Library Certification
from the University of Pittsburgh. Her undergraduate degree is a
Bachelor of Science in Elementary and Kindergarten Education from The
Pennsylvania State University, Schreyer Honors College. Rebecca is a
runner and novice triathlete; she completed several half-marathons and
triathlons recently and is preparing to run the Pittsburgh Marathon in
May. She will be teaching LIS 426 and supervising SLTP practicums in the
fall.
Laura Saunders received her Master's from Simmons GSLIS in 2001, and,
after working as a reference and instruction librarian for several
years, returned to GSLIS to pursue a Ph.D. As an adjunct and then
visiting faculty member, she taught Reference and Information Services,
User Instruction, Evaluation of Information, and Academic Libraries. Her
dissertation, "Information Literacy as a Student Learning Outcome," won
the Jean Tague-Sutcliffe award at the 2010 ALISE conference and is
being published in book form by Libraries Unlimited in June 2011. She
has published in the Journal of Academic Librarians, College &
Research Libraries, and the portal "Libraries and the Academy" on the
topics of information literacy, learning outcomes assessment,
accreditation, and government documents. Laura will be teaching LIS 403
and LIS 407 in the fall.
The nationally ranked Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science (http://www.simmons.edu/gslis) is one of the oldest and largest library and information science programs in the nation. Founded in 1899, Simmons College (http://www.simmons.edu)
is a nationally recognized university located in the heart of Boston
that includes an undergraduate college for women, and graduate programs
for women and men in management, social work, health sciences, and
library and information science.
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Jennifer Doyle '98LS
Director of GSLIS Curriculum and Communications
Simmons College
300 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
www.simmons.edu/gslis
Phone: 617-521-2738
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