[Asis-l] Simmons SLIS faculty and alumni accomplishments

[Alisa Libby]

 Simmons SLIS faculty and alumni accomplishments

SLIS adjunct *Daniel Callison*’s most recent book, The Evolution of
Inquiry, was published by Libraries Unlimited in May 2015. The book was
reviewed by the Ontario Library Association
<https://www.accessola.org/web/OLAWEB/OLAStore/SearchResults/OLAWEB/OLAStore/StoreDetails.aspx?pc=9781610693868>
.

Assistant Professor *Monica Colón-Aguirre*’s article, “Knowledge
Transferred Through Organizational Stories: A Typology,” was published
in *Library
Management*, 37 (6/7), 421 – 433. Another article, “Organizational
Storytelling Among Academic Reference Librarians,” was published in *portal:
Libraries and the Academy*, 15 (2), 233-250.

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs *Jeannette Bastian *and Associate
Professor of Practice *Donna Webber* co-wrote *Archives in Libraries: What
Librarians and Archivists Need to Know to Work Together*, published by the
Society of American Archivists, 2015.

SLIS Adjunct *Lisa Fagin Davis* has published a book, *La Chronique Anonyme
Universelle: Reading and Writing History in Fifteenth-Century France*, with
Brepols Publishers. Her research and writing process is detailed on her
blog, Manuscript Road Trip <https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/>.

*Robert Gibbons* ’88LS has published 9 books of poetry. His most recent are
the *Trilogy *from Nine Point Publishing: *This Time*; *Traveling Companion*;
and *To Know Others, Various & Free*, each 216 pages. His bilingual 2010
book, *Jagged Timeline*, was translated into Danish and published in
Denmark. He gave the keynote address at the 2nd annual Beat
Studies Conference held at Aalborg University in 2013, titled “Kerouac &
the Ecstatic Act of Writing.” Gibbons’ work has been reviewed a number of
times in Barney Rosset's *Evergreen Review*, and in *Cercles*, published in
France. Gibbons has been invited to present a paper at the Ecopoetics
Conference at the University of Perpignan in the south of France in June
2016.

Senior Lecturer *Megan Lambert* published her first picture book, *A Crow
of His Own*, in April of this year. She has a book about picture books and
reading with children coming out on November 3, *Reading Picture Books with
Children: How to Shake up Storytime and Get Kids Talking About What They
See*. Her second picture book, *Real Sisters Pretend*, will publish in
April 2016. It will be illustrated by Nicole Tagdell. Lambert also has an
essay in the current Horn Book Magazine, "#WeGotDiverseAwardBooks:
Reflections on Awards and Allies
<http://www.hbook.com/2015/07/choosing-books/horn-book-magazine/wegotdiverseawardbooks-reflections-on-awards-and-allies/>."
Another
essay was published in February, "In Defense of Gentle Men
<http://www.hbook.com/2015/02/using-books/home/in-defense-of-gentle-men/>."
The Horn Book will run a chapter from *Reading Picture Books* in its
November/December issue.

Adjunct *Martha Mahard* was a consultant for the Boston Public Library,
reporting on the state of the BPL’s special collections. Mahard’s report
was covered by *The Boston Globe
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/massachusetts/2015/06/23/boston-public-library-consultant-report-spreads-blameseeks-greater-investments-address-decades-inadequacies/EcsZ9Y8iXBbAg4wijgNMbL/story.html>
*in June.

Adjunct *Elaine Martin*’s co-written article, "Assessment of Data
Management Services at New England Region Resource Libraries
<http://dx.doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2015.1068>" was published in *Journal of
eScience Librarianship* 4(1): e1068.

Assistant Professor *Chaoqun Ni* co-wrote two recently published articles:
“The Academic Advantage: Gender Disparities in Patenting,” published in *PLOS
One*.10(5):E0128000, May 2015, and “On the relationship between gender
disparities in scholarly communication and country-level development
indicators,” published in Science and Public
Policy. doi: 10.1093/scipol/scv007.

Assistant Professor *Kyong Eun Oh* published two articles: “Online Consumer
Health Information Organization: Preferred, Easy, and Useful Facets from
Users’ Perspectives,” published in *Knowledge Organization*, 42(3),
176-186, and “Blocked: When the Information is Hidden by the
Visualization,” published in *Journal of the Association for Information
Science and Technology*. DOI: 10.1002/asi.23479.

SLIS adjunct *Anita Silvey*’s latest non-fiction offering for
children, *Untamed:
The Wild Life of Jane Goodall
<http://www.anitasilvey.com/books/bk_untamed.html>*, was published by
National Geographic Children’s Books on June 9, 2015.

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