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

[Alisa Libby]

*Accomplishments of Simmons SLIS faculty and alumni*

*Faculty*

Adjunct *Abigail Baines* ’10LS launched the Five Colleges Compass Digital
Library over the summer. The project includes libraries of Mount Holyoke,
Smith, and Hampshire College, where Baines is the Systems & Discovery
Librarian at the Harold F. Johnson Library.

*Colin Rhinesmith*, Assistant Professor at Simmons SLIS and a Faculty
Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard
University, was invited to share his research
<http://www.simmons.edu/news/school-of-library-and-information-science/2017/september/faculty-research-at-capitol-hill>
at the 45th Research Conference on Communications, Information, and
Internet Policy (TPRC). His co-author, Dr. Bianca (Bibi) Reisdorf, Quello
Assistant Director and Assistant Professor in Media and Information, will
present their research findings on race and digital inequalities at the
TPRC Capitol Hill Briefing on Thursday, September 7, 2017.

Associate Professor *Laura Saunders* is collaborating with Rachel
Gans-Boriskin in Communications at Simmons and Lisa Hinchliffe at
University of Illinois Library on a project funded through a National Forum
grant. A symposium will be organized at Simmons, focused on the theme of
libraries and allied institutions as community anchors for information
access and literacy. The participants of the symposium will produce a white
paper, along with recommendations for LIS programs and curricula to develop
information literacy.

*Alumni*

*Ashleigh Coren* ’14LS was named  ACRL's member of the week in July 2017.
Currently a resident librarian at West Virginia University in Morgantown,
West Virginia, earlier this year Coren co-authored a chapter in Leading in
the New Academic Library, Libraries Unlimited, May 2017.

*Linnea Johnson* ’01, ’04LS, ’15SM is now Advisor of Commodity Management
for Dell EMC.

*Rachel Karasick* ’17LS was a summer fellow at the Harvard Library
Innovation Lab to explore the borderlands of libraries, technology, and
law. Along with her cohort, she presented the results of her work in August
at the Harvard Law School.

*Amanda Merk* ’01LS is now the Executive Director of the Norman Williams
Public Library in Chester, VT.

*Lee Pasackow* ’86LS has retired after 13 years as Business Librarian in
the Goizueta Business Library at Emory University.

*Stacey Potito* ’97LS is Senior Business Intelligence Specialist at Charles
River Associates.

*David Read* ’01LS is Senior Analyst, Content Management at EBSCO
Information Services.

*Dr. Jane Zhang* ’11LDS was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate
Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science, at The
Catholic University of America.

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Alisa M. Libby
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