Helping Out at Advising Day
Hi again,
Advising day is January 23 from 12pm to 1pm. Would anyone like to help run our table with me? (I think there’s a free lunch in it for you.)
Please email to let me know.
-Andrea
Hi again,
Advising day is January 23 from 12pm to 1pm. Would anyone like to help run our table with me? (I think there’s a free lunch in it for you.)
Please email to let me know.
-Andrea
Hi All,
SCoSAA is looking for more officers for the Spring Semester. Due to graduations, and personal reasons we are left with only a President. So if you are interested in taking on a leadership role please let me know. Interested parties will need to come to a meeting before the semester begins so that we can discuss plans for the next semester, and figure out a way to have an election. (Elections are generally just an item on a membership meeting agenda).
The pre-semester meeting will be either January 23, 24 or 25 in the early evening depending on those who are interested. (Please email me your preference.)
The following are descriptions of the open positions:
Vice-President – Helps plan events and meetings, runs meetings in the absence of the President.
Secretary – Takes meeting minutes and posts them to the SCoSAA wiki space. In charge of records management.
Treasurer – Maintains SCoSAA budget, orders food and supplies.
New England Archivists Liason - Attend NEA meetings and report back to SCoSAA
ARMA Liason - Attend ARMA Boston events and report back to SCoSAA
If you think you might be interested, have questions, or just want to talk about SCoSAA please feel free to email me: medina2@simmons.edu
Best,
Andrea
The students of Candy Schwartz's digital library course will be presenting their new digital library on Thursday December 13th at 10:00 am, in the Kotzen Center Meeting Room. SCoSAA will be sponsoring the celebration so please come to view the new library.
The Olive Ruby Henty Digital Scrapbook is the third in the Notable Women of Simmons collection. The purpose of theis collection is to "animate the lives of early college women...to serve not only as a record of a student's college experience, but also as an entree into a rich understanding of the social conditions and historical period in which these women lived."
Olive Ruby Henty graduated from Simmons in 1915 with a degree in Household Economics. Her rich academic and social experiences are displayed in this new digital scrapbook. Join us in honoring Olive's life and times on December 13, 2007
Could those of you who are interested in working with non-profits as to help get their archives under control please let me know what your availability is the week after courses end? I'd like to get the ball moving over the break.
Thanks,
Andrea
Here's the details for this Friday's field trip.
*Meet at the Egyptian-revival gate (I hope this is apparent, Brian our guide seems to think so) at 1:45ish--but no later than 2pm.
*The cemetery address is 580 Mount Auburn Street and the #71 and #73 buses run there directly from Harvard Square. (They in fact drop you off across the street from the Egyptian gate)
*If you would like more info or better directions check out their website
*There is still plenty of room, and if you can please sign up at http://gslis.simmons.edu/signup
Just a heads up that next Wednesday, November, 7th at 5:40pm is our monthly membership meeting. On the agenda are re-caps of the fall NEA meeting and our two recent field trips. See you in the student lounge!
-Andrea
SCoSAA will be visiting the Mt. Auburn Cemetery archive and taking a tour of notable headstones on Friday, November 2nd at 2pm. Afterwards if there is interest we'll go for coffee (or something of that sort) and talk about what we've seen. Everyone think good thoughts for great weather!
Sign up is at http://gslis.simmons.edu/signup
Keep an eye on the blog for further updates on where to meet. Hope too see many people there.
Hi, All.
David Dwiggins was kind enough to set us up with the Yarr! sign up system. Go to http://gslis.simmons.edu/signup and click on SCoSAA Events. Right now, we've just got the Longfellow one up there, but as soon as the other events get scheduled, they will be added, too. It's really easy to do, just use your regular Simmons log in info to sign up for a slot on the tour. If you have any trouble, just email Joelle (joelle.burdette@simmons.edu).
Anita Israel, the archivist at the Longfellow National Historic Site, has agreed to take a party of 15 people on a tour of the house and archives on Friday, 26 October 2007 at 2pm. Note the following change: Please sign up for this event through Yarr! by clicking on the "SCoSAA Events" link there (http://gslis.simmons.edu/signup). If you have difficulty with this, please email Joelle (joelle.burdette@simmons.edu).
We will meet at the Longfellow house, which is located at 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA. If you'd like to travel by public transportation (recommended), take the Red Line to the Harvard Square stop, exit onto Brattle Street; it's about a 5 - 7 minute walk down Brattle to the house. The visitor's entrance is in the back of the house. For more complete directions, see the Longfellow website.
Hope to see many of you there!
Hello Everyone,
Please let me know what afternoon of the week is best for you to visit the Mt. Auburn Cemetery and Archives this semester. The voting will commence once I post this, and will end in one week's time (Thursday the 20th).
Vote by putting a comment in the comments section!
Thanks,
Andrea
The archivist of the Longfellow National Historic Site is willing to give a tour to 15 people. The tour will include the archives and special collections, as well as the house. Please indicate in the comments which day of the week would be best for you (Monday through Friday) during the month of October. We'll do our best to schedule the visit around your requests. Please note that the visit will take place during the day, most likely early afternoon. Once scheduled, we will post an announcement here, and indicate how you will be able to sign up for a space on the tour. (If you have difficulty adding comments to this post, please email Joelle: joelle.burdette@simmons.edu)
Below is a description of the Longfellow NHS Archives as taken from their website:
Longfellow National Historic Site boasts an impressive archival collection, comprised of over 750,000 individual items ranging from George Washington letters to pamphlets on Soviet theatre. The archival material provides context for much of the house's furnishings and other objects in the museum collections. Park staff, independent scholars, writers and others make use of the archives to research a diverse array of topics ranging from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's views on slavery to early twentieth century garden design.
Finding aids for many of the collections can be found at the Longfellow NHS website.