March 2009

Professor Ching-chih Chen of GSLIS presented an invited talk on the results of her current work in the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding as a partner with the UNESCO World Heritage Center (WHC) at WHC headquarter in Paris on February 9, 2009. The talk was entitled "How 878 World Heritage Sites of the 149 Countries Can be Assessed with a Simple Click." In November 2008, she gave an invited speech entitled, "How Global Memory Net Has Reached Citizens/ Scholars of over 100 countries" at the 4th International Conference on Universal Digital Library in Allahabad, India, and similar talks at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, China, and public libraries in Zuhai and Dongguan, Guangtong, China.

Sheila Denn and Rong Tang participated in a panel at the ALISE Conference entitled "User-based Question Answering: An Exploratory Study of Community Generated Information Exchange in Yahoo! Answers!"

Melanie Kimball gave a presentation at the ALISE Conference, entitled "Stories within Stories within Stories: Historical Methods in LIS," which examined how a historian's collection of evidence can be a story in itself. She also participated in a panel discussion on "Education and Creation: The Formation and Legacy of Progressive Era Children's Librarians," which discussed training for early children's librarians.

John Rodzvilla, Simmons College Library Assistant, gave a presentation on Libraries and Twitter at ACRL in Seattle. This presentation focused on how libraries can use the program for marketing everything from upcoming events to recent acquisitions. For a full description view the conference program: http://www.eshow2000.com/acrl/2009 conference_program.cfm.