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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. ================================= 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 [log in to unmask] =================================