[Asis-l] Recent News from Simmons SLIS, February 2017

[Alisa Libby]

*Publications, Promotions, and Papers by Simmons SLIS Faculty, Students,
and Alumni*

*Faculty*

   - Professor & Director *Jeanette Bastian* and Senior Lecturer *Rebecka
   Sheffield* have published chapters in a new book, Heather MacNeil and
   Terry Eastwood, eds. Currents of Archival Thinking, 2e. Libraries
   Unlimited. Chapter 13: GLAMs, LAMs, and Archival Perspectives 327 Jeannette
   A. Bastian. Chapter 14: Community Archives 351 Rebecka Sheffield.


   - Assistant Professor *Janet Ceja* will be working with a visiting
   scholar from Mexico in March. Lefteris Becerra Correa attends the
   Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur in Mexico where he is earning
   an MA in the area of development, sustainability, and globalization. He'll
   be here for the month of March working on his thesis, which addresses how
   audiovisual archives can leverage digital technology and the appropriate
   legal frameworks to contribute to the sustainable development of regional
   culture in Mexico.


   - Congratulations to *Laura Saunders*, who will be promoted to Associate
   Professor as of July 1, 2017.

   - Associate Professor *Rong Tang* and Assistant Professor *Kyong Eun Oh*
   have co-authored a paper entitled "Mobile News Information Behavior of
   Undergraduate and Graduate Students in the U.S.: An Exploratory Study," and
   the was accepted to appear at iConference 2017. Rong Tang will be
   presenting their paper at the conference on March 23, 2017 in Wuhan, China.


*Students*

   - Members of SoCS (Students of Color at Simmons SLIS) attended the
   REFORMA NE chapter meeting on February 10 at the Healey Library, University
   of Massachusetts, Boston. *Bridgett Pride*,* Jules Thompson*,* Anais
   Alvarez*, and* Sylmari Burgos* met with REFORMA members from MA, CT, NY,
   PA and learned about their scholarship opportunities for graduate students
   who are REFORMA members, as well as some of the events they are sponsoring
   this Spring, including the 13th annual Joint-Mini Conference &
   Multicultural Books and Talent Fair. The Joint Conference is a free event
   (RSVP only) and they are accepting presentation proposals still.


*Alumni*

   - *Jane Sanchez* ’76LS named Law Librarian of Congress. The appointment
   was announced by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on February 1,
   effective February 5. From the Library of Congress website: “Sánchez, who
   holds a Juris Doctor degree in addition to a master’s degree in Library
   Science and a bachelor’s degree in English, has led the Humanities and
   Social Sciences division at the Library of Congress since 2014. She has
   also served as a business unit managing director at the U.S. Government
   Publishing Office; as an associate director of justice libraries, Justice
   Management Division, U.S. Department of Justice; as departmental head of
   History & Culture Libraries at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries; and
   as an acquisitions manager for electronic databases at BNA, Inc., a
   journalistic organization, in addition to library work at Harvard and the
   University of New Mexico.”


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Alisa M. Libby
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