[Asis-l] Simmons SLIS Community News, July 2017

[Alisa Libby]

*Simmons SLIS is proud to announce the most recent accomplishments of our
faculty, staff, and alumni. *

*Faculty*

Dean *Eileen Abels* co-presented “Library and Information Experts
Succeeding in the 21st Century: A Town Hall Dialogue on Competencies,
Careers, and Successful Practice,” a panel discussion facilitated by ALA
President Julie Todoro, at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual
Conference in Chicago, IL on June 24.

Associate Professor *Melanie Kimball *co-edited Engaging Teens with Story:
How to Inspire and Educate Youth with Storytelling (Libraries Unlimited,
2017). Kimball also authored the chapter, “Folk and Fairy Tales and Popular
Media: Strong Females, Rehabilitated Witches, and Villains We Love to Hate.”

Senior Lecturer *Megan Dowd Lambert* presented a panel discussion, “Words
and Pictures: Picture Book Author/Illustrators Discuss the Whole Book,”
with picture book illustrators David Hyde Costello, Don Tate, and Duncan
Tonatiuh at ALA on June 24.

Associate Professor *Laura Saunders* co-presented “Going with (and Growing
with) the Framework: Teaching Information Literacy with a Social Justice
Lens,” at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL on June 23. Saunders
also presented “Re-Framing Information Literacy for Social Justice,” at
ALA, and was elected to a second term as Director of Beta Phi Mu at the
Annual Business Meeting, both on June 24.

Senior Lecturer *Rebecka Sheffield* presented her paper, “Teaching Justice
in Archival Education” at the Association of Canadian Archivists Conference
in Ottawa on June 8.

Associate Professor *Rong Tang* spoke at the School of Information
Management at Nanjing University and two other universities in early June.
Her topic for Nanjing University's presentation is "Information Behavior
Research: Past, Present, and Future." Tang also represented the SLIS
doctoral program at “Leaders Wanted: LIS Doctoral Options Fair” on June 24
at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, IL.

*Alumni*

*Mary E. Helms* ’81LS, associate professor in the McGoogan Library of
Medicine, received the Medical Library Association’s (MLA) President's
Award as part of a committee updating the association’s governance
documents. The award, which is one of the highest honors offered by the
MLA, was given to the group at the 2017 MLA annual meeting in May.

*Mary Piorun* ’14LS has been named director of the Lamar Soutter Library at
UMass-Medical.
*Staff*

Research Services Librarian* Dawn Stahura* has written a chapter for The
Feminist Reference Desk: Concepts, Critiques, and Conversations (Library
Juice Press, Summer 2017). Her chapter is titled “Filling in the Gaps:
Using Zines to Amplify the Voices of People Who Are Silenced in Academic
Research.”

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Alisa M. Libby
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