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Summer 2007
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Bonnie Peirce: Library Journal Mover & Shaker
More on Commencement Award Recipients
Links From This Issue
Bonnie Peirce: Library Journal Mover & Shaker 
From page 7
When Bonnie Peirce LS'03 looked at public libraries, she saw that their organizational structure was becoming increasingly insufficient. She decided to change things. Library Journal recognized her efforts by naming her to its 2007 list of Movers and Shakers. She certainly is a mover—and she has been organizing people worldwide to move with her.
Bonnie founded the Library Goddesses Blog Network in the fall of 2006. She sees it as "a beginning vehicle for conversation, sharing, and collaboration—an open network to share the best practices, research, and thoughts of our profession 24/7 worldwide." By creating an online network that's member-driven and always available, she hopes librarians will collaborate to bring new energy to public libraries. Right now, there are more than 180 members scattered through all 50 states and Canada.
She also helped create Global Library 2.0 Week, which will happen from July 22-28, 2007. She said, "I imagine it will be the first of many such weeks as librarians and libraries around the world start to create new networks and platforms for knowledge, information, and culture." She invites everyone to participate however they can: "bring what you can, share what you know, build something cool, collaborate on a longer-range project . . . you decide." She sees the week as a chance for libraries to consider a global future and for people to be active and creative in a worldwide network. For more information, check out http://globallibraries.ning.com.
Bonnie, a GSLIS alum, is the Head of Children's Services at the Dover Town Library. She also teaches CE classes for Simmons. Keep an eye out around Simmons and online to see what she will move onto next!
More on Commencement Award Recipients
From page 7
Congratulations to this year's Simmons outstanding student award winners! These recent graduates have been recognized for their significant contributions to Simmons GSLIS. To read biographies of the award winners, please download the following PDFs:
The Estelle Jussim Award: James Darin Murphy
The Kenneth R. Shaffer Award: Jennifer M. Lege
The GSLIS West Leadership Award: Georgina M. Trebbe
The Outstanding Information Science Student Award: Ellen Knowlton Wilson
Links From This Issue
The Library Vacation Files: Getting Away, Library Geek Style
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- Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, VT and Stanstead, Quebec
- Prelinger Library, San Francisco, CA
- Central branch of the Seattle Public Library
- Eleutherian Mills Historical Library at the Hagley Museum, outside of Wilmington, DE
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- Aurora Public Library, Aurora, NY
- Forbes Library, Northampton, MA
- Vassar College Library, Poughkeepsie, NY
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC
- Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland
- Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY
- Schulz Library at the Center for Cartoon Studies, White River Junction, VT
- National Police Archives, Guatemala
- Rare books stacks at Harvard Law Library
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- Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, IL (central branch of the Chicago Public Library)
- British Library
- New York Public Library
Must-See Local Libraries
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- The library at the Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, MA
- American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
- Franklin Public Library, Franklin, MA
- Kirstein Business Branch of the Boston Public Library
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Must-Sees from Faculty and Staff
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- Michele Cloonan: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy
- Michele Cloonan: Deutsche Bucherei Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Michele Cloonan: Marsh's Library, Dublin, Ireland
- Allen Smith: Hereford Cathedral Library, Hereford, UK
- Linda Watkins: Boston Athenaeum
- Denise Davis: Los Angeles Public Library
- Terry Plum: Salt Lake City Public Library
- Em Claire Knowles: National Children's Library, Seoul, South Korea
- Anne Reid: Georgia Tech Info Commons, Atlanta, GA
- Susannah Furnish: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, UK
- Christine Leland: Vatican Library, Vatican City
- Jim Matarazzo: Bain & Company's corporate library, at its world headquarters in Boston
A Night at the Library Hotel
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CyberCemetery
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Folks on the Move
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- GSLIS adjunct professor Jim Kelly was recently appointed to the Humanities division of the Editorial Review Board of the Guide to Reference Sources, 12th ed.
- GSLIS student Marcel LaFlamme was named winner of the Progressive Librarians Guild's 2007 Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize. Classmate Joshua Jackson received an honorable mention.
- GSLIS student Sean Thibodeau recently participated in SLA Boston "Day on the Job," and visited the library at the National Fire Protection Association
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