March 2008: Crossing Borders
This month's InfoLink casts a spotlight on the different borders GSLIS crosses; both physical and theoretical. Read interviews with PhD students from Iraq and an adjunct professor trying to break down the borders between adolescent boys and reading.
In InfoLink Online:
- Thanksgiving in Amman
- Blending in and standing out
- Snapshot Interview with Michael Sullivan
- Snapshot Interviews with Iraqi GSLIS students
Read more about the trip to Amman Jordan
- The first post in a series of entries from Meaghan, Dean Cloonan, and GSLIS alum Harvey Varnet from Amman.
Blended classes at GSLIS
- Read the offical Simmons press release about the grant from the Sloan Foundation.
- More articles from various periodicals:
Continued Interview with Michael Sullivan
What's it like to camp overnight in the Museum of Science with 600 kids?
The Camp-In Program at the Boston Museum of Science is as unique an experience as you will find. It is 18 hours of constant motion, noise, and discovery. If it weren't for the collective energy of the participants, the staff would never make it. The Camp-In Program was the best training for public librarianship I could have ever had, because it shows that learning can be wild, unfettered, and unforgettable.
How did you get interested in LIS?
I actually wanted to be a teacher, but couldn't find a job right out of college, so I used my computer skills to get a technical job at a university library. I left that to teach, but after a few years I found that I missed the atmosphere and varied challenges of library work. I quit teaching, found a tiny public library in New Hampshire that needed a director, and the rest is history.
What is something you do to relax?
Currently, I am learning to play the guitar (badly), and origami is my meditative art. I have always been an avid hiker, and when the weather permits, I am out in search of mental health on the mountains of New Hampshire. Of course, on a cold winter night, it is hard to beat a good book for a wind-down.
What book have you read the most times?
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was the first writer that held any fascination for me, and I go back and read the trilogy every couple of years.
Who is the person (living or deceased) that you would most like to meet?
I think I'd like to sit down for an afternoon with Malcolm X. Here was a mind both brilliant and completely self-taught. He led by doing, and having done for himself, had no problem calling others to reach their potential, whether those others were individuals, a people, or a nation. He seems to me to have understood, in a way I really do not yet, that leadership doesn't mean being liked — it means being responsible for others.
International Blogging at GSLIS
Read blogs by those involved with different Simmons initiatives overseas (remember that you will see the most recent blog post first so scroll down to get to the first entry):
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