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[Alisa Libby]

Simmons SLIS NewsFaculty

Dean Eileen Abels was on the steering committee for the Institute of Museum
and Library Services (IMLS) event, “Positioning Library and Information
Science Graduate Programs for 21st Century Practice,” on November 7, 2017
at the University of South Carolina. Associate Professor Laura
Saunders attended
the event and Gary Shaffer ’16LDS was a panelist in one session. A
recording of the session can be viewed on the IMLS website
<https://www.imls.gov/news-events/events/positioning-library-and-information-science-graduate-programs-21st-century>
.

Professor Jeannette Bastian gave the keynote presentation, “Unlocking the
Archives and Decolonizing the Records,” at Critical Archives: New
Interpretations, New Practices and New Lives for Archival Materials, a
conference at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. November 14, 2017.
Bastian presented "Radical Recordkeeping: How Decolonizing Archives helps
us think differently about them" as the Annual Callery Memorial Lecture at
the School of Information, University of Pittsburgh on October 27, 2017.
She was also appointed a member of the International Council on Archives
Expert Group on Shared Archival Heritage in August 2017.

Associate Professor Rong Tang and Assistant Professor Kyong Eun Oh presented
"University students' evaluative and affective reactions to
inclusion/exclusion-related political news: A diary study" at the ASIS&T
SIG USE Research Symposium on October 28th in Arlington, VA.
Alumni

Kimberley Bugg ’17LDS has been named chief of the Humanities and Social
Sciences Division
<https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/414198305/latest-news-new-hss-chief> at
the Library of Congress.

Jeffrey Pomerantz '97LS will be joining the SLIS faculty as a Visiting
Professor in Spring 2018. He will teach Metadata and Digital Libraries, and
will convert Digital Libraries to an online course. Pomerantz
<http://jeffrey.pomerantz.name/> received his Ph.D. from Syracuse
University, and was a tenured Associate Professor at UNC Chapel Hill. He
has been teaching online and hybrid courses since 2001 and taught a MOOC on
metadata. He has written a book about metadata for the MIT Press, and is an
editor of the Open Access Directory.

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