For more information please contact benoit@simmons.edu

Prof. Benoit's homepage

Simmons College GSLIS homepage

 
   
   Research Colloquium / Lunchtime Lectures
Welcome to the Fall 2006 Schedule

About this site: This site hosts the schedule for the Fall ‘06 offerings of research and other topics. The previous schedule is here. Most presentations are given in the Palace Road Building, unless otherwise specified, at Simmons College, Boston, MA.

Everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be served.


James Matarazzo, Dean Emeritus - “Today’s most unpopular jobs”

Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 1-2 pm. Room: P206. View the abstract here.


Tom Clark, Nicole Henning, Brandy King - “Cool Tools: digital tools used in the library setting”

Tom Clark (Sun Microsystems): “Librarians need to get a Second Life”
Nicole Henning (MIT Libraries): “Aggregating Information for Library Users”
Brandy King (Children's Hospital): “Blogs in the Work Place”

Because of a conflict with an ASIST/SLA presentation, the scheduled speaker (G. Benoit) yields the date to these guest speakers.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 1:30 pm, Katzen Room in the new Library Building


Gillian Hallam - What's up in Australia?
LIS, IT & Career-Long Learning Down Under

Associate Professor, School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Monday, October 30, 2006, 1-2 pm. Room: Special Functions Room (Main College Building).


Rong Tang - Users’ Mental Models of Federated Searching

Simmons College, GSLIS

Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 1-2 pm. Room: P206.


Robert Hayes

University of California-Los Angeles [This year’s Lazerow Lecturer]

Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 1-2 pm. Room: P207.

 

Spring 2007 Term

Schedule to speak:

Nanette Veilleux, Associate Professor, Simmons College, Dept of Computer Science
Patricia Erwin will speak on building a digital library of cyber security resources
G. Benoit, Associate Professor, Simmons College, Information Retrieval projects
Anita Silvey
Sheila Denn, Assistant Professor, Simmons College

Updated on 10/11/06