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Summer 2008: Relax Amid the Stacks

This month's InfoLink is a bibliophile's dream.

Take a trip around Boston and Western Mass. with Infolink's Elisabeth Zimmer as she lets you in on all of the cool (literally and figuratively) places to hang out this summer.

Our Snapshot this month features Fulbright scholar Gladys Saade, from Beirut, Lebanon.

And last but not least we've got the scoop on Professor Bastian's new book, nifty events taking place this summer and more overachieving GSLIS students. Come take a look!

In InfoLink Online:

>> All those links you couldn't click on in the paper version
>> Even more cool libraries!
>> Links from the Gladys Saade interview
>> Writing books and winning scholarships; Yup, we're cool.

Library Links

Here are the links for all those cool libraries...

BPL's Rare Books and Manuscripts Department: http://www.bpl.org/research/rb/index.htm

Boston Athenæum: www.bostonathenaeum.org

French Library & Cultural Centre Alliance: Française de Boston: www.frenchlib.org

State Library of Massachusetts: http://www.mass.gov/lib/ - Site and http://www.mastatelibrary.blogspot.com/ - Blog

Museum of Fine Arts libraries: William Morris Hunt Memorial Library and The W. Van Alan Clark Jr. Library of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts

Massachusetts College of Art and Design: Morton R. Godine Library

Insurance Library Association of Boston Library and Website

Woburn Public Library: http://www.ci.woburn.ma.us/index.asp?NID=216

Mary Baker Eddy Library: Library and Mapparium

Armenian Library and Museum of America:http://www.almainc.org

Resource Center for Philanthropy: http://www.agmconnect.org/RCP/overview.aspx

WGBH Radio Library: http://www.wgbh.org/article?item_id=191752

Center on Media and Child Health: Website and Blog

National Archives and Records Administration: Waltham and Pittsfield

Jones Library (Amherst Public Library): http://www.joneslibrary.org

Forbes Library (Northampton Public Library): http://www.forbeslibrary.org

Springfield City Library: http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/

Even more cool libraries

Here are are the libraries that we just couldn't squeeze into the paper edition.

American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street, Worcester
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/
The American Antiquarian Society aims “to collect, preserve, and make available the printed record of what is now the United States from 1640 through 1876.” Founded in 1812 by a Revolutionary War patriot and printer, the American Antiquarian Society is the third oldest historical society in the U. S. and the first to have a national scope to its collections. The Society's library contains 20 miles of shelves and more three million items: books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, sheet music, and more. The collection contains two out of three of the total books known to have been printed in the U.S. between the establishment of the first press (1640) and 1820.

National Yiddish Book Center
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building, 1021 West Street, Amherst
http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/+7
The National Yiddish Book Center has recovered 1.5 million Yiddish books—books that were being discarded and destroyed because an older generation had passed on and younger generations couldn’t read the language. The Center’s goal is to “return old books to a new generation of readers”—they have established or strengthened Yiddish collections at more than 450 libraries, including Harvard, LC, the British Library, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and national libraries in Australia and Japan. They have also launched the Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, which digitizes titles and provides high-quality reprints.

North End Branch of the Boston Public Library
25 Parmenter Street, Boston
http://www.bpl.org/branches/north.htm
To complete your Little Italy North End experience, drop by the North End Branch of the BPL. You’ll feel as if you went to Italy; the building is modeled after a Roman villa, complete with central courtyard and small pool. The building also has a scale model of the Ducal Palace in Venice and a white marble bas-relief of Dante Alighieri. The collection includes a small Italian-language section and a local history collection. They offer lectures in the fall and spring (including lectures on North End history) and weekly film festivals in the summer.

Interview with Gladys Saade

You can find more of Gladys' articles on the Bahithat's website www.bahithat.org.

And if your geography isn't up to snuff here's a visual to help jog your memory when it comes to Lebanon and it's surroundings.
map of lebanon

Folks on the Move

Archives Internships - someone really should write a book about that...Oh, wait! someone did. None other than your very own Professor Bastian to be exact.

http://www.archivists.org/catalog/pubDetail.asp?objectID=2373

We've also got another overachiever on our hands. GSLIS' own Kimberly Giedd (who is also your friendly neighborhood LISSA treasurer) won the 2008 NELA Scholarship.

Think you could use some extra cash to help with that tuition bill? Go for it! http://www.nelib.org/resources/scholarships.htm

GSLIS Adjunct Professor Patsy Baudoin and GSLIS student Meaghan O’Connor had an article published in the Winter 2008 issue of The Journal of Education for Library & Information Science. Read the article, "The Simmons College Vietnamese Scholar-Librarian Program: A Model for Collaborative International LIS Education," here.