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By LISSA West Co-President Alex Lent, November 15, 2009 1:40 pm

Join us for drinks and informal networking on Tuesday, November 17th, 7-9PM
at Northampton Brewery in Northampton.

Rumor has it, another library-themed drink…

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By LISSA West Co-Vice President Graham Christian, November 13, 2009 10:58 pm

Sat., December 5, 12:20pm: Lunchtime Discussion of the UMass DuBois Digitization Project

Members of the Du Bois Digitization Project at Umass Amherst will present on the project and creating metadata records with MODS. With a generous grant from the Verizon Foundation, SCUA embarked on a project to digitize the papers of W.E.B. Du Bois in the Spring of 2009. The project is truly a massive undertaking, digitizing 368 boxes, or nearly 165 linear feet of correspondence, essays, lectures, and notes. When complete, however, Du Bois Online will be one of the largest, freely available online repositories of primary materials for the study of African American history and culture.

Join us at 12:20 in the GSLIS Office for a brief presentation and walk-through of MODS record creation in the Oxygen XML editing program with GSLIS alums Jeremy Smith and Aaron Rubinstein, and GSLIS students Abby Baines, Pam Harnois and Danielle Federa.

Bring your bag lunch and questions, we’ll provide the screen shots and cookies!

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By LISSA West, November 8, 2009 10:06 pm

For those of you unable to join us last Saturday the 7th at Johnny’s, here’s the recipe for The MARC Record, which was heartily imbibed:

1-1/2 oz. Soda
splash Cranberry Juice

Fill rocks glass with ice.
Add Maker’s Mark and soda.
Top off with a splash of cranberry juice.

Points to anyone who can accurately annotate this using the appropriate 1XX and 2XX and 5XX fields.

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By LISSA West Co-Vice President Graham Christian, November 6, 2009 3:16 pm

Join Promising Pals and be a pen pal to a 6th, 7th, or 8th grade student!

The Promising Pals program highlights literacy and mentoring by giving students at the Timilty School in Roxbury an opportunity to correspond with students and professionals from Simmons and the surrounding community. Last year, more than 200 participants from Simmons joined over 500 professionals from greater Boston to be a part of this program. Participation is easy!

All you have to do is:

1. Be a pen pal with a 6th, 7th, or 8th grade student.
2. Exchange at least 4 letters between December 2009 and May 2010.
3. Read the assigned book and discuss it in the letters with your pal.
4. Meet your pal at the Pal Breakfast hosted by the Timilty School on June 4, 2010 from 7:30am – 10:30am.
   Attendance at this event is required, as the students are very disappointed not to have their pal attend the breakfast.

This opportunity is open to Simmons Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students. Please visit the link below to register as a Promising Pal.
Registration deadline is November 13, 2009.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=BSIOU7geiwnb64faMh1erQ_3d_3d

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By LISSA West, November 2, 2009 2:54 pm

Your fellow colleague and mine, Graham Christian, will be directing Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance with the Valley Light Opera this weekend: You could/ should go! More info here: http://vlo.org