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Jeannette ALLIS Bastian

Jeannette BastianAssociate Professor and Director, Archives Program

Work experience in public archives and libraries. Formerly Director and Territorial Librarian of the Division of Libraries and Archives in the United States Virgin Islands and adjunct faculty at the University of the Virgin Islands. Currently Director of the Archives Management Concentration and Co-Director of the Dual Degree Archives/History Program . Research interests include, archives and public memory, archives appraisal, Caribbean literature, Virgin Islands history. Professional Affiliations: New England Archivists, Society of American Archivists, Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries.

Teaching Areas

LIS 438: Introduction to Archival Methods and Services
LIS 440: Archival Access and Use
LIS 441: Appraisal of Archives and Manuscripts
LIS 442: Establishing Archives and Manuscript Programs
LIS 443: Archives, History and Collective Memory

Articles

  • Bastian, Jeannette A. "A Question of Custody: The Colonial Archives of the United States Virgin Islands," American Archivist, 64 (Spring/Summer 2001): 96-114.
  • Cox, Richard J., Elizabeth Yakel, Jeannette Bastian, David Wallace and Jennifer Marshall, "Archival Education in North American Library and Information Science Schools: A Status Report," Library Quarterly, 71 (April 2001): 141-194.
  • Cox, Richard J., Elizabeth Yakel, Jeannette Bastian, David Wallace and Jennifer Marshall, "Educating Archivists in Library and Information Science Schools," Journal of Education in Library and Information Science, 42 (Summer 2001): 228-240.
  • Bastian, Jeannette Allis, "Filtering the Internet in American Public Libraries: Sliding Down the Slippery Slope," First Monday 2 (Oct. 1997) (http://www.firstmonday.dk)
  • Allis, Jeannette, "The Decade of the Critic: West Indian Literary Criticism in the 1970's," Progressions: West Indian Literature in the 1970's, ed. by Edward Baugh and Mervyn Morris (Kingston, Jamaica University of the West Indies, 1990).
  • Allis, J., "A Case for Regional Criticism," Caribbean Quarterly 28, nos. 1 and 2, 1984.

Books

  • Bastian, Jeannette Allis, Project Director, Yellow Cedars Blooming: An Anthology of Virgin Islands Poetry (St. Thomas: V.I. Humanities Council, 1998)
  • Bastian, J.A. (ed), Virgin Islands Blue Book, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1991/92
  • Allis, J. and Jennifer Jackson (eds.), West Indian Poetry: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on West Indian Literature (St. Thomas: University of the Virgin Islands, 1986)
  • Allis, J., West Indian Literature, A Critical Index I, 1930-1975 (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1981, reprint 1982)
  • Allis, J. (ed), Virgin Islands Government Documents: A Checklist of Publications, 1979-1985

Academic Background

B.A., New York University
M.Phil., University of the West Indies
M.L.S., Shippensburg University
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

 

Contact Information

Room P-204G
Phone: 617-521-2808
Fax: 617-521-3192
Email: jeannette.bastian@
simmons.edu

See also:

Archives Program
Repository Form for Internship Request, Fall 2004 (download)

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