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On behalf of the ASIS&T Student Chapter, Adjunct Professor and Manager of GSLIS Technology Linnea Johnson accepted the Student Chapter of the Year Award at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This is the seventh time the chapter has won this award. Please see the full release at: http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/news/news/2011.php#news4406

Associate Professor Amy Pattee hosted a panel entitled "YA Fiction: On the Edge" at the Boston Book Festival on October 15. The panel included graphic novelist Danica Novgorodoff (Refresh, Refresh), Ellen Levine, author of In Trouble, and Daniel Nayeri, author ofStraw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow, a collection of novellas. For more about Amy Pattee, please see: http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/people/faculty/full-time/pattee.php

Adjunct Professor Shelley Quezada, the winner of the 2011 New England Library Association's Greenaway Award. The award was established in 1988 to recognize distinguished service in the field of librarianship. Quezada, a long-standing GSLIS adjunct who teaches "Literacy and Services to Underserved Populations: Issues and Responses" as well as in the youth services area, is the Consultant for the Underserved at the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. For more about Quezada, please see: http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/people/faculty/adjunct/2402.php

GSLIS Student Samantha Lee Wickman, the 2011 recipient of the ASCLA (Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies) Century Scholarship. The annual scholarship provides up to $2500 in funding to a current library school student. It was established in 2000.

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The October 14, 2011 ALA JobLIST featured our September InfoLink article, "How to Get the Most Out of Library School (Reflections from Recent Grads)" as its lead. Blog posts from recent grad Laura Krier were also highlighted in the same newsletter. To read the InfoLink article, please see:http://gslis.simmons.edu/infolink/sept_11/upfront_0911.htm

The Men of the Stacks 2012 Calendar features one of our MLIP doctoral students as Mr. February. Please see: http://menofthestacks.com/brett-march

Recent GSLIScasts (all podcasts are available at: http://gslis.simmons.edu/blogs/medialab/ )

"Information As A Weapon," Assistant Professor Laura Saunders (Research Colloquia Lunchtime Lecture; October 27, 2011)

"Personal Branding," recent alum Andromeda Yelton (ALA-Student Chapter event; October 27, 2011)

"Emerging Practices in Archival Description" with panelists Aaron Rubinstein, Archivist for Digital Collections, Tufts University; Erica Boudreau, Digital Archivist, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; Kate Bowers, Collections Services Archivist at Harvard University Archives; and  Kathy Wisser, Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Archives/History Dual Degree Program at Simmons GSLIS (SCoSAA Archives Panel; October 26, 2011)

"We Can Be Heroes, Just for One Day: Investigating Celebriaty Portraiture" Curator Melissa Rombout (October 25, 2011)

2011 World Usability Day Celebration Event
When: Thursday, November 10, 2011, 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Where: Linda J. Paresky Conference Center (Main College Building, 3rd floor)

What: World Usability Day with the Harvard ADS Lab & Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory

The Simmons GSLIS Usability Lab and the Student Chapter of Special Library Association are pleased to announce the 2011 World Usability Day Celebration Event. The event will feature presentations/demonstrations by two teams about their systems: (1) NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and (2) ShelfLife via DPLA from the Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory. Informal usability assessments will be performed, and feedback will be gathered with regard to the interface design and functionality. A light breakfast will be provided.

Preliminary Schedule:

8:30-9:00 Welcome and introductions, networking and breakfast

9:00-10:30 Jay Luker, Harvard/NASA ADS

10:30-12:00 Kim Dulin, Harvard Law Library, ShelfLife via DPLA

12:00 Wrap up and conclusion

The event is free and open to the Simmons community. It is organized by the Simmons GSLIS Usability Lab and sponsored by the Special Library Association Student Chapter at Simmons.

To register for the event, go to:?http://wud2011simmons.eventbrite.com/



Sincerely,
Jennifer Doyle