[Asis-l] Simmons SLIS News, February 2018

[Alisa Libby]

 Simmons SLIS News

Faculty

Dean *Eileen Abels* and Associate Professor *Laura Saunders* co-facilitated
a pre-conference workshop, "A Future by Design: What Do We Teach?" with
Lynne C. Howarth (Toronto) and Linda C. Smith (Illinois) on February 6 at
the ALISE Conference in Denver, CO. Abels and Saunders also participated in
a panel, "Core and More: Examining Foundational and Specialized Content in
LIS Programs" on February 7.

Associate Professor *Naresh Agarwal* has been invited to Paris, France as
invited speaker to talk on Context and his book Exploring Context in
Information Behavior: Seeker, situation, surroundings, and shared
identities at the First Workshop on Context in Analytics, held in
conjunction with the 34th IEEE International Conference on Data
Engineering, April 16-19, 2018. Simmons faculty, staff and students can
access the electronic version of Agarwal's book freely from the Simmons
Library or find more information.

Associate Professor *Gerald Benoit* is giving an invited talk to faculty
and students at Harvard on Information Visualization at Adams House on
February 27.

Senior Lecturer *Rebecca Davis* presented her poster entitled "Expanding
LIS Education by Thinking About How Academic Librarians Can Collaborate
with Undergraduate Women and Faculty in STEM" during the Works in Progress
session at ALISE on Tuesday, February 6 in Westminister, CO.
Associate Professor *Laura Saunders* was quoted in an article in Poynter,
focused on the trust the public has in their libraries and librarians.

Assistant Professor *Amber Stubbs* presented on a panel, "Team-Teaching
with Humanities" at the Special Interest Group on Computer Science
Education Technical Symposium in Baltimore, Maryland on February 22. Stubbs
has a new Natural Language Processing Shared Task starting up. Registration
is now open; data release is March 5.

Associate Professor *Rong Tang* co-moderated the ALISE Special Program:
Connecting Teaching and Research, on February 7. She co-presented a Juried
Paper: "Teaching User Experience (UX) in LIS Programs and iSchools in North
America: Challenges and Innovations" and participated in a Juried Panel:
Teaching Research Methods in LIS Programs: Approaches, Formats, and
Innovative Strategies on February 9.
Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct *Sid Berger* presented "Frankenstein in the Popular Imagination" at
the 51st California International Antiquarian Book Fair on Saturday,
February 10. The Fair celebrated the bicentennial of Frankenstein,
exhibiting first editions, comics, and vintage movie posters of Mary
Shelley's "monsterpiece."

Adjunct *Lisa Fagin Davis* published a post, Fragmentarium: a Model for
Digital Fragmentology
<https://manuscriptroadtrip.wordpress.com/2018/02/25/fragmentarium-a-model-for-digital-fragmentology/>,
on her blog, highlighting her students' participation in a Fragmentarium
case study, which lead to original discoveries now reflected in the manuscript
record <https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/manuscripts/8853>.
Alumni

*Billy C. Beal* was posthumously inducted into the Meridian Community
College Hall of Fame on February 12 in the MCC Riley Workforce Center.
Beal's portrait will be ultimately hung in the Dulaney Room with fellow
honorees.

Children's Literature graduates were among those recognized by ALA's Youth
Media Awards
<http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/02/american-library-association-announces-2018-youth-media-award-winners>.
2014 Children's Literature graduate *Mackenzi Lee* was awarded a Stonewall
Honor for her YA novel, *The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue*. Roaring
Brook Press editor *Emily Feinberg*, who graduated in 2011, edited the
Caldecott Honor book *Big Cat, Little Cat. *2013 Children's Lit grad *Karen
Boss*, Associate Editor at Charlesbridge Publishing, was editor of *Malala:
Activist for Girls' Education*, which was a Batchelder Honor Book 2018.

*Sondra Murphy* began her position as Director of the Leominster Public
Library
<http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/news/ci_31652072/new-librarian-brings-diverse-experience-job-leominster#ixzz5717cFVjU>
.

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