February 2009

Prof. Jeannette Bastian has been appointed by Mayor Menino to the City of Boston Archives Commission.

Irene Herold (Mason Library) presented a three-hour workshop in November for the OCUL (Ontario Council of University Librarians) Associate University Librarians Meeting at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on mentoring for leadership. This was based upon research she did for Managerial Leadership in the Information Profession courses she has completed for her Ph.D. program at Simmons College. It included a review of three leadership theories (transformational, LMX, and team), their relationship to mentoring, and best practices in leadership mentoring in industry and library organizations.

GSLIS students Anna Jorgenson and Jessica Shurlow have been chosen to serve on the MSLA Executive Board. The MSLA Executive Board establishes the direction and priorities of the organization as an advocate for strong school library programs throughout Massachusetts.

Prof. Danny Joudrey gave a presentation about the latest trends in cataloguing education as a part of the "Hot Topics in Technical Services" program held at annual conference of the New England Library Association in October, 2008.

Kris Liberman, GSLIS Alum and GSLIS CE program manager, was was elected in December to be the President-Elect of the SLA Boston Chapter.

Michael Sullivan, adjunct faculty at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science, announces the release of his latest book Connecting Boys With Books 2: Closing the Reading Gap, published by ALA Editions.