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By LISSA West, October 2, 2009 2:45 pm

Brooke Bergantzel, DFFGSLISWATMCFTB,* is offering some TOR 3 help on Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 9:30 A.M., at in the GSLIS West Office:

The due date for TOR Part 3–Oct. 19, 2009–is just around the corner.  We’ll be offering two sets of workshops next Saturday, Oct. 10, to help orient you to basic Web page creation and wiki editing.  The workshops will each run once in the morning and once in the afternoon. These workshops (Taming the TOR) are also a part of the GSLIS Toolkit series, and will give you a valuable addition to your knowledge base as library professionals.  Feel free to stop by the morning or the afternoon session even if you would just like a refresher on some of the material covered.

Please see the attached flyer for details.

For more about the GSLIS Toolkit, take a look at http://tinyurl.com/5coewn.

Contact Brooke directly to RSVP: brooke.bergantzel@simmons.edu

*DeanÂ’s Fellow for GSLIS West and the Massachusetts Center for the Book

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By LISSA West Co-Vice President Graham Christian, September 28, 2009 4:19 pm

Please read the following GSLIS_Info list announcement from Richard Gates.

The GSLIS Business cards are a great deal and VERY useful over your time in the program – for handing out to your new friends and potential future employers!

Hi, Everyone!

I am writing to inform GSLIS MS Candidates of the opportunity to order
business cards. The cost is $16.50 for 250 cards. The deadline to submit
your order form is FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2009. Printing of the cards takes 3-6
weeks. Many students in the past have found having business cards to be
helpful in their job search and professional networking as they transition
to a life beyond GSLIS!

Since the date of your (expected) graduation will be printed on your card
(example: “MS Candidate ’10″) you will want to be fairly certain of your
date of graduation. I would say a rule of thumb might be if you’ve
submitted a Petition to Graduate, you’re probably good-to-go to have “MS
CANDIDATE ’10″printed on your business cards.

Students who are planning to graduate at the end of the Fall 2009 semester
will want to print of their cards
“MS CANDIDATE ’10″ since your degree will be conferred in January 2010,
although you will have completed your course work in December 2009.

NOTE: at this time, this offer is NOT available to GSLIS
*graduates*…those students who have already completed their GSLIS degree.

Attached is an order form to order your business cards. Blank forms are
also available at the Student Services Center, P-212 Please be advised that
your check for $16.50 MUST BE SUBMITTED at the time you turn in your order
form.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Richard Gates
Student Services Manager
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Simmons College
300 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 521-2797 (phone)
(617) 521-3192 (fax)
richard.gates@simmons.edu

Get the form on the LISSA West Wiki here. You may need to log in.

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By LISSA West, September 14, 2009 5:21 pm

At the top of my Super-Helpful-During-My-First-Semester-of-Library-School list is having set up a personal wiki. There, I organized my sources for Reference (and referred back to them there during the final), stored in-process papers, jotted things I was panicky about between classes, took notes when doing readings I knew I wanted to reference in papers later, and so forth. I still use it, and like that it’s sort of a sandbox / memoir of previous semesters’ endeavors.

Linnea and her awesome crew of Boston GSLIS tech lab folks can set you up with one within a couple hours: Check it out here. Then, note all the other new tech links at right.