Also in this issue:

* Nicole Hennig ’82LS talks about “app literacy” for librarians.

* Cheryl Kohen ’06LS offers advice for those of you preparing to attend LIS conferences this year.

* Assistant Professor Naresh Agarwal shares his research on the information-seeking behaviors of different populations.

* Ph.D. student Katherine McCanless Ruffin shares how her background in fine arts meshes with her LIS studies.

We look forward to welcoming our new Dean, Eileen Abels, to campus this summer, and we will share more details about Abels as her arrival nears.

For upcoming events, visit: http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/news/calendar/index.php.

For more GSLIS News click here: http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/news/news/index.php

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Best,

Kris Liberman ’87LS

Continuing Education/Communications/Community

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RECENT NEWS

Commencement Award Winners

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2013 Commencement Awards, as follows:

Kenneth R. Shaffer Outstanding Student Award: Jan Day

Daniel Fleming Outstanding Student Library Teacher Award: Emily Houston

Estelle Jussim Award:  Jasmine Jones

GSLIS Western Campus Leadership Award: Michelle Fredette

Outstanding Information Science Student Award: Arthur Liu

Check out the Summer InfoLink for more information about these graduates!

Simmons GSLIS Welcomes Visiting Scholar Anna Sobczak

After meeting Senior Guest Lecturer Ross Harvey at a conference, visiting scholar Anna Sobczak from Poland’s Szczecin University spent a week in April visiting Simmons GSLIS to learn more about the Digital Curriculum Laboratory (DCL) and other digital archive projects at the school. Sobczak recently completed her doctoral dissertation at Szczecin University and teaches archive instruction to undergraduate history students. Inspired by GSLIS, she hopes to influence her university’s archive curriculum. In December, she is planning to present a paper at the Polish Archivists Society and share her experiences about archival instruction and the GSLIS DCL.

GSLIS Alumni Board Hosts BiblioBrews in D.C.

On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 the GSLIS Alumni Board hosted a BiblioBrews event in Washington, DC. Alumni from the classes of 1976 up to 2012 were there and the conversation was lively. Guests shared stories about their career paths and current professional activities as well as talked about challenges and opportunities they are seeing first hand in the fields of librarianship, archives and information technology. It was a great first GSLIS event in D.C., but certainly will not be the last!

GSLIS Launches New Curriculum

On March 29, GSLIS officially launched a new core curriculum that will offer many new opportunities for engagement with members of the GSLIS alumni community.

The event was kicked off with remarks from Interim Dean and current ALA President Maureen Sullivan. Michael Colford '98LS, director of library services at the Boston Public Library, also spoke, discussing ways that the new core curriculum will successfully offer new opportunities to engage with the growing and changing library community as a whole.