Welcome.

Welcome to our “Lunchtime Lecture” series. Faculty, doctoral students, undergraduate students, adjuncts and visiting faculty are all invited to use our series as a forum to present research project, practice before speaking at a conference, or just to explore some ideas and receive feedback from the audience. Participation as a speaker or audience member is open to all, on-campus and off. If you know of someone who might enjoy participation, kindly invite them to join in!

Spring 2010 we will have a panel approach.

 

About this term’s speakers.

You're invited to participate so please be encouraged to share your research and ideas with everyone at Simmons.

Snacks are back! Thanks to the Dean, we will treats (crudités, or desserts, or ?) at our presentations.

Spring 2010 Three panels of faculty will discuss a range of topics of interest to people in many fields - arts & visualization, library history, and international projects.

Fall 2009 This term our speakers include a new faculty member, Naresh Agarwal, speaking on Delineating the boundary of 'context' in information behavior..., Lisa Woronzoff-Dashkoff on her educational experience in Amsterdam, G Benoit on digital object repurposing (for ASIST); auroraDL, a multilingual digital library management system. We anticipate one talk addressing grant-writing.

1:00-2:00, Room P206
➠Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010
Visualization and Visual Information Management. Panel discussion with Martha Mahard, Naresh Agarwal, & Gerry Benoit.

➠Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Panel discussion of Experiences in International Librarianship. Presentations by Terry Plum, Linnea Johnson, Lauren Vander Zanden and Jennie Murack.

➠Thursday, April 8, 2010
History of the Boston Athenaeum A library history panel discussion with Ross Harvey (Visiting Professor from Australia), Melanie Kimball, and Kathy Wisser.

Fall 2009‘s Speakers
➠Oct 8
G Benoit, Ph.D.: The ”beautiful“ in information: philosophy of aesthetics and information visualization. 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval, Cambridge, UK [abstract]
➠Oct 15
Naresh Agarwal, Ph.D.: Delineating the boundary of ‘context’ in information behavior: towards a contextual identity framework. [abstract]
➠Oct 22
G Benoit, Ph.D.: Repurposing digital objects: case study of seven international publishing firms. [abstract]
➠Nov 5
Elizabeth Woronzoff: Gender: Select M or F or ... The clssification and language of gender [abstract]
➠Nov 19
Melanie Kimball, Ph.D.: Teaching Children ‘To See Beauty and to Live It’: A Library/Museum Collaboration, 1914-1918 [abstract]
Posted September 9, 2009 | Modified Feb 18, 2010 | G Benoit, Associate Professor, CS and GSLIS, Simmons College