[Asis-l] Simmons SLIS Faculty News

[Alisa Libby]

*Accomplishments of Simmons SLIS faculty and alumni *

*Faculty*

Associate Professor *Melanie Kimball *attended the annual Society for the
History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) conference in June
in Victoria, British Columbia, where she presented her paper, "Tales for
the Youngest Readers: The Rise and Fall (?) of Board Books.”

Dean and Professor Emerita *James M. Matarazzo* ’65LS and Dr. *Toby
Pearlstein* ’77LS, ’86LDS have a new book, *Handbook of Information
Management *to be published in Fall 2017 by Emerald. Pearlstein and
Matarazzo’s article, “New Management Realities for Special Libraries,”
which appeared online in Searcher, May 2016, has been translated and
published in National Diet Library Current Awareness Bulletin (in Japanese)
No. 316, September 2016.

Assistant Professor *Colin Rhinesmith* co-edited a special issue
<http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/61> of *The Journal of
Community Informatics*, with David Nemer (University of Kentucky) and SLIS
student *Christiana Urbano*. The issue features selections from the 2016
Community Informatics Research Network Conference in Prato, Italy. The
theme of the conference was “Engaging with Participation, Activism, and
Technologies.”

Senior Lecturer *Rebecka Sheffield*’s book, *Any Other Way: How Toronto Got
Queer*, has been nominated for a Toronto Book Award
<https://web.toronto.ca/city-government/awards-tributes/awards/toronto-book-awards/2017-toronto-book-awards/>
.

Associate Professor *Rong Tang* worked with the ALISE Board of Directors to
compile a resource list on the topic of "Diversity and LIS Education." The
resource list will be published in the October 2017 issue of Journal of
Education for Library and Information Science. Tang's short paper titled
"The Scholarly Discourse and Topical Interconnections within the Realm of
Information Behavior Research," co-authored with former SLIS faculty member
Chaoqun Ni, was accepted for presentation at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in
Washington, D.C. this October. Tang also co-authored a paper titled
"Teaching User Experience (UX) in LIS Programs and iSchools in North
America: Challenges and Innovations" with R. Jean Thrift ’17LS, which will
be presented at the ALISE 2018 Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado next
February. Tang organized and developed a panel proposal titled "Teaching
Research Methods in LIS Programs: Approaches, Formats, and Innovative
Strategies," which will be presented at the ALISE annual conference in
February 2018 in Denver, Colorado. Rong Tang and Assistant Professor *Kyong
Eun Oh*'s short paper entitled "University Students’ Evaluative and
Affective Reactions to Inclusion/Exclusion-Related Political News: A Diary
Study" was accepted to be presented at ASIS&T SIGUSE 2017 Research
Symposium on October 28, 2017.

*Alumni*

Erica Eynouf '10LS was appointed Dean of Library Services at Springfield
Technical Community College.

The Burlington Public Library trustees recently appointed Michael Wick
’09LS as the town’s new library director
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/north/2017/09/29/burlington-appoints-library-director/CIQq1Xkuf8Matv0rrcExiI/story.html>
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Alisa M. Libby
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