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[Alisa Libby]

Prof. Mary Wilkins Jordan: Libraries on the Lewis and Clark Trail
http://simmons.edu/slis/for/current/news/blog/2014/10/lewis-and-clarks-expedition-in.php
Lewis and Clark's expedition in search of a water route to the Pacific has
a near-mythic place in American history. In 1803, on the heels of the
Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson charged his personal secretary,
Merriweather Lewis, with a mission to explore the newly acquired territory.
Lewis enlisted skilled frontiersman William Clark, who would co-command the
group known as the Corps of Discovery. The team spent the next two years
traversing the western half of the country, a journey that would
irrevocably impact U.S. expansion policy and relationships with Native
Americans.

Faculty Profile: Rong Tang
http://simmons.edu/slis/for/current/news/blog/2014/10/usability-testing-ux-user-behavior.php
Usability testing, UX, user behavior research: these terms may not have
originally been a part of the Library and Information Science lexicon, but
these concepts are inescapable these days--and with good reason. In a field
focused on meeting users' needs, using the right tools to test the end
results is crucial. Lucky for Simmons School of Library and Information
Science (SLIS), we have preeminent usability scholar and educator Rong Tang.

Interview: Kendra Giannini '04UG, Capstone Coordinator
http://simmons.edu/slis/for/current/news/blog/2014/10/interview-kendra-giannini-capstone-coordinator.php
Kendra Giannini, Simmons alum and now SLIS staff-person, talks about her
role as Capstone Coordinator, provides some insight into the curriculum
changes and Simmons' internship and alumni network, and offers advice to
students on the wealth of professional opportunities for Simmons SLIS'
graduates beyond traditional library positions.

MLIP/Ph.D. Candidate: Kimberley Bugg
http://simmons.edu/slis/for/current/news/blog/2014/10/library-services-for-the-21st-century.php
Like many in the LIS field, MLIP (Managerial Leadership in Library
Professions) Ph.D. student Kimberley Bugg didn't set out to be a librarian
when she began her college career. A Communications and Media Studies major
at Georgia State University (GSU)--she said, "I like to talk about Spike
Lee a lot." Her sights were originally set on law school. As an intern at
the Fulton County Courthouse, Bugg researched cases and prepared witnesses
for pretrial testimony, but found herself discouraged by the environment.
She expressed this concern to one of the lawyers she worked with, who
complimented her research zeal and suggested she might find law
librarianship rewarding.

UNBOUND: Libraries, GitHub, and Open Source Software
http://gslis.simmons.edu/blogs/unbound/2014/10/06/libraries-github-open-source-software/
Last week, the Knight Foundation held a competition to find and fund new
proposals on the prompt: “How might we leverage libraries as a platform to
build more knowledgeable communities?” The Knight News Challenge is now
closed for entries, and their site has offered up the submissions they
received for the public’s perusal. Browsing through them, I noticed a
common goal: furthering use of open-source programming by LIS professionals.

3D Printer and Scanner in SLIS Collaboratory
http://simmons.edu/slis/for/current/news/blog/2014/10/3d-printer-and-scanner-in-slis-collaboratory.php
Thanks to a generous gift from one of our trustees, SLIS has a MakerBot
Replicator 2 3D printer and a MakerBot Digitizer 3D scanner available for
faculty, staff, student, and alumnae/i usage. Workshops will be held to see
the MakerBot in action. We are collaborating with SLIS faculty on ways to
incorporate usage of the 3D printer and scanner for hands-on activities in
classes this fall.

-- 
Alisa M. Libby
Communications Assistant
Simmons College, SLIS
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