Simmons GSLIS: Dispatches from the Field
Beginning in 2005, GSLIS students, faculty, and staff, began writing "Dispatches" from their travels to various places across the world. In 2006, we created the "Dispatches from the Field" blog so that these chronicles of trips both international and domestic could be brought to the LIS community.
We are currently blogging from South Korea. Please visit http://gslis.simmons.edu/blogs/dispatches/ to see our most recent postings.
Please see below for the notes that started it all; please click on the link above to see more recent observations.
Letters from Abroad
- Dispatches from Amman (July 2005)
- Dispatches from Nicaragua (August 2005)
Dispatches from Amman - July 2005
In March 2004, Simmons GSLIS and Harvard University received a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities to provide training for Iraqi librarians and archivists to aid in modernizing Iraqi libraries and help address the country's serious shortage of librarians. (See full press release.) Dean Michele Cloonan and Adjunct Professor Harvey Varnet traveled to Jordan to take part in the program. Below please find their dispatches from Amman.
- August 2, 2005—Michele Cloonan
- July 30, 2005—Ian Johnson
- July 28, 2005—Abdul Latif Khairy
- July 28, 2005—Cynthia Correia
- July 23, 2005—Abdul Latif Khairy
- July 23, 2005—Ian Johnson
- July 23, 2005—Harvey Varnet
- July 20, 2005—Harvey Varnet
- July 18, 2005—Harvey Varnet
- July 17, 2005—Ian Johnson
- July 16, 2005—Harvey Varnet
- July 14 & 15, 2005—Michele Cloonan
- July 14, 2005—Michele Cloonan and Harvey Varnet
- July 13, 2005—Abdul Latif Khairy
- July 13, 2005—Harvey Varnet
- July 12, 2005—Michele Cloonan
- July 10 & 11, 2005—Harvey Varnet
- July 9, 2005—Michele Cloonan
- July 8, 2005—Harvey Varnet
- July 7, 2005—Michele Cloonan
- July 6, 2005—Harvey Varnet
Dispatches from Nicaragua
The first trip to Nicaragua was conceived by former Assistant Dean Denise Davis LS'99 in 2005 and organized by a group of students who went on to form the student group Simmons International Relations for Librarians. Then GSLIS students Mimi Kolosseus and Carla Magenheimer, with advisors Sergio Chaparro and Pat Oyler, spearheaded the group.
Several members of the first group shared their experiences with the GSLIS community through the letters below. For dispatches from subsequent trips, please see the Dispatches from the Field blog.
-From the September 2005 issue of InfoLink.
- September 28, 2005—Denise Davis
- August 20, 2005—Norah Connolly
- August 18, 2005—Carolyn Ziering
- August 18, 2005—Senele Gonzalez
- August 14, 2005—Denise Davis
- August 13, 2005—Senele Gonzalez
- August 13, 2005—Mimi Kolosseus
- August 12, 2005—Kristin Fowler
- August 10, 2005—Norah Connolly
- August 10, 2005—Janet McEthron
- August 9, 2005—Mimi Kolosseus
- August 9, 2005—Denise Davis
- August 8, 2005—Senele Gonzalez
- August 7, 2005—Carolyn Ziering
- August 5, 2005—Mimi Kolosseus
- August 2, 2005—Kristin Fowler
- August 2, 2005—Kristin Fowler
- August 1, 2005—Senele Gonzalez
- July 30, 2005—Janet McEthron
- July 28, 2005—Carolyn Ziering
- July 27, 2005—Senele Gonzalez
- July 22, 2005—Denise Davis