February is Black History Month, a celebration of African American heritage and achievement that has been observed nationwide since the mid-1970s. In its honor, we profile a recent GSLIS alumna, Holly Smith '08LS, who works with the African American archival collections at the Southern Historical Society in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Read more...)
New GSLIS student Deanna Beattie works as the program assistant for the Managerial Leadership in the Information Professions Ph.D. concentration, helping organize program delivery and preparing educational, administrative, and marketing materials. Beattie was born and raised outside of Concord, N.H., and went to Norwich University in Vermont, where she received a degree in English. (Read more...)
Prof. Jeannette Bastian has been appointed by Mayor Menino to the City of Boston Archives Commission (Read more...)