On Thursday, April 19, the Simmons College Chapter of the American Library Association invited five Simmons alumni to return to campus and share their thoughts on leadership in library settings. The panel, moderated by GSLIS professor Allen Smith, included both recent graduates and experienced professionals, and focused on on the development and application of leadership…
Casey Bisson is the information architect for Plymouth State University’s Lamson Library. Lichen Rancourt is the Web Services Engineer for the University of New Hampshire Library. Bisson recently received the Mellon Award for Technology collaboration for Scriblio: a plugin for the WordPress blogging platform that turns it into an online library catalog. On Wednesday, April…
Sheila Denn is an Assistant Professor at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She is currently completing her dissertation through the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she has focused on metadata needs for government statistical data, human-computer interaction for complex information-seeking, and the relationship of metadata to human-computer interaction.…
Adaptive Environments is a non-profit organization committed to universal design: the idea that products and services should be accessible to all users regardless of their ability. Mary-Ann Parker-O’Toole, the Director of Information Management and Librarian at the organization, often consults with outside librarians to ensure that library services and facilities are meeting the needs of…
