The GSLIS InfoLink is a monthly newsletter produced for the GSLIS community of students, faculty, staff and alums. InfoLink is released seven times a year; an online version can be found at http://gslis.simmons.edu/infolink. Each issue includes a feature article focused on a vital aspect of the LIS profession. Recent features include the creation of the Massachusetts Library System, librarians and genealogy, the experience of a rural public library getting hit by a tornado, presidential libraries, and a "foodie" issue that visited America's Test Kitchen and the cookbook collection at the Schlesinger Library. Also in each issue are Snapshot interviews with new faces in the GSLIS community.
Members of the GSLIS community are encouraged to submit their own professional accomplishments for publication in the Folks on the Move section. Free subscriptions to the newsletter are available via mail or email. Send your submissions or request for a subscription to infolink@simmons.edu.
April 2012: GSLIS Looks Back
The world was a different place when Michèle Cloonan switched from the west to the east coast to become the Simmons GSLIS dean in late summer 2002. The first anniversary of the September 11 attacks was a few weeks away. Wikipedia had been launched only 18 months before and Google was just four years old. The iPhone? Not even announced yet--that wouldn't happen for nearly five more years. The Simmons campus, too, was in quite a state of flux. One Palace Road, the building that GSLIS now calls home, had opened just three weeks before Cloonan arrived. (Read more...)
April 2012 Table of Contents:
- GSLIS Looks Back: A Decade of Change
- Snapshot: Johanna Radding
- LinkedIn and Social Media; Networking Part Two
- Preparing for Life After GSLIS
- New Fellow for Dean's Initiatives: Bethany Fair
- GSLIS Goes Online, Part One: Instructional Technology
- News from the Ph.D. Program