September 2009
GSLIS student Alexis Brown is the 2009 NELA scholarship recipient. She will receive $2000. She has been active in the MSLA student chapter at Simmons-Boston. Alexis will continue the LIS program at GSLIS-West.
Prof. James Matarazzo's "Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Winthrop Public Library" was published in the Annual Report of the Town of Winthrop, 2008. Three articles written with Toby Pearlstein were also published: "The EPA Libraries' Near Death Experience," published in Searcher, v.17, no.5, May 2009; "Survival Lessons for Libraries — A Soft Analysis and a Warning," published in Searcher, v.17, no.6, June 2009; and "A Review of Research Related to Management of Corporate Libraries," published in Advances in Librarianship, v.31, 2008. Also, his article "How to be Popular" was published in Research Report in the USA, Tokyo: National Diet Library, 2008. Dr. Matarazzo also was one of the first five members of the Special Libraries Association to be interviewed for the centennial of the Association's Oral History Project.
Prof. Howard Rodriquez-Mori presented his research colloquium, "The Information Behavior of Puerto Rican Migrants in Central Florida, 2003-2009: Grounded Analysis of Six Case Studies — Use of Social Networks During the Migration Process" on August 6 at the School of Library & Information Studies at Florida State University.
GSLIS student Danitta Wong is the recipient of two scholarships: the 2009 CALA, Chinese American Library Association scholarship and the Sheila Suen Lai Scholarship. While maintaining excellent academic performance, Danitta has worked as a volunteer at the Teen Room of the Brookline Public Library's Main Branch.
Dr. Ching-chih Chen delivered two invited talks entitled "World Heritage Memory Net: Instant Access to 146 Countries' 891 World Heritage Sites with Cutting-edge Technologies" during her recent intensive research trip to the western part of China and Tibet. On July 6, 2009, she spoke at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, and on July 21st, 2009, she spoke at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. On August 7, 2009, Prof. Chen was the keynote speaker at the EITC-2009 (The 9th Emerging Information Technology Conference) at MIT, Cambridge, MA. Her keynote speech entitled "Information Technology Development and Broad-based Societal Implications: From Specific Research Agenda to Global Culture and Heritage" also received full-page coverage in the local Chinese newspaper Sing Tao Daily on August 8, 2009.
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