Simmons College

Professor Bastian received her master's in library science from Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and a master's degree in philosophy from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica; she received her doctoral degree at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Science. Prior to coming to Simmons, Bastian was the Director of Libraries and Archives and Territorial Librarian of the United States Virgin Islands and served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas. She has work experience in government archives, public libraries and teaching Caribbean literature, as well as consulting on archives and library planning. Her publications include several articles and books that focus on West Indian literature and the Virgin Islands.

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