Most of us have encountered Lauren Hruska in her role as GSLIS
admissions assistant, handling all front-line communications for the
Office of Admission. Hruska is the friendly person on the other end of
the phone or computer who patiently walks prospective students
through deadlines and application requirements. She also coordinates
admissions events, gives tours, and is in charge of the new GSLIS blog
at http://gslis.simmons.edu/blogs/admissions/. Many of us don't
know, however, that Hruska is a crafter extraordinaire. She knits,
sews, welds, blacksmiths, draws, writes, and makes books. This
month, for our craft issue, Hruska talks with us about her creative
pursuits, outside of work and in it. (Read more...)
Sid Berger wears many hats: He is currently the Ann C. Pingree
Director of the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum in
Salem, which houses many of the original transcripts of the witchcraft
trials along with a vast collection of other historical, artistic, and
genealogical materials. He's the owner/operator of a press (in his
house), for which he hand prints books of poetry and other works,
some by Pulitzer Prize winners. He's a paper maker. He has been an
English, Communications, and GSLIS professor at Simmons since
2002. (Read more...)
Ruth Kowal '71LS started her career as a reference librarian in Falmouth, Mass.,
in 1971 and has for the last 18 years worked as a high-level administrator in the
Boston Public Library (BPL). In 2008, she became acting president of the BPL and
also was inducted into the Massachusetts Library Association Hall of Fame. Since October
— when Amy Ryan, the new BPL president, took over — Kowal has been director of
administration and finance.
(Read more...)
If you don't know Jeremy Shaw-Munderback, chances are you've seen
him on campus. And if you see him on campus, chances are he'll say
hello. Since enrolling in GSLIS in January 2008, Shaw-Munderback
has been a visible, affable presence through his work as president of
the ALA Student Chapter (ALASC) and other groups. This fall, he'll
sit on one of the committees preparing the GSLIS Reaccreditation
Program Presentation.
(Read more...)
There are many changes afoot in academic libraries, perhaps in particular in science, engineering, and medicine
&mdash fields that have in a short time migrated much of their data and publications online. Practicing science
librarians say that despite the economic downturn there are good jobs for people who like fast-paced,
interdisciplinary work. In this issue, we explore what some of those jobs look like and how to prepare for them.
(Read more...)
GSLIS Adjunct Professor Linda Braun '81LS teaches several classes at GSLIS, LIS 460 (Technology and the School
Library Media Center) and LIS 483 (Young Adult Literature) among them, and is the president-elect of the ALA's Young
Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). A two-time winner of the WISE (Web-based Information Science Education)
Consortium's online teaching award, Braun spends quite a bit of time online, particularly on Twitter.
(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...)
