GSLIS in Nicaragua
From Simmons International Relations
The connection between Simmons and Nicaragua began in the Summer of 2005 when a small group of students and Assistant Dean Denise Davis traveled to the country to volunteer at a small library in San Juan del Sur, a small town on the strip of land bordered by the ocean, Lake Nicaragua, and the Costa Rican border. In 2006, two others in the GSLIS community joined Denise to continue the tradition: David Dwiggins and Victoria Walsh, students in the GSLIS program who also worked for the school in various capacities. The GSLIS connection to Nicaragua has grown stronger, and there has also been some collaboration with other groups at Simmons and with additional libraries and librarians in Nicaragua. It is our hope to build these efforts into a more formal partnership that will help develop library services in Nicaragua while providing valuable experience for Simmons students.
For logistics regarding a trip to San Juan Del Sur, please see Jessica Haglund's San Juan del Sur Trip Information & Facts
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Funding for Nicaragua Trip
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One fellowship in the amount of $750 will be available to students participating in the January 2009 volunteer trip to Nicaragua.
Fellowship recipients will be required to contribute a minimum of four blog posts to the GSLIS Dispatches From the Field blog http://gslis.simmons.edu/blogs/dispatches/. If the winning student does not attend the January 2009 program, the award monies must be returned.
Application Procedure: Submit a current resume, unofficial transcript (print off AARC), and a 500-word essay to the GSLIS front desk (P-111) no later than November 10, 2008. The essay should explain how this experience will benefit you in your field of study and what you expect to gain personally from your time abroad.
Deadline is now closed for the January 2009 trip.
Read a complete account of some of the trips in the Nicaragua section of the GSLIS Dispatches Blog.
You can also view the new SJDS LibraryThing account which is being used to generate a preliminary catalog of the SJDS Biblioteca's book collection.
Nicaragua Roster
August, 2005
- Norah Connolly
- Denise Davis
- Kristen Fowler
- Senele Gonzalez
- Mimi Kolosseus
- Janet McEathron
- Carolyn Ziering
January, 2006
- Carolyn Ziering
August, 2006
- Denise Davis
- David Dwiggins
- Victoria Walsh
January 2007
- David Dwiggins
Summer 2007
- Michelle Call
August 2007
- Michelle Call
- Denise Davis
- Carolyn Ziering
January 2008
- Jessica Deangelis
- Jessica Haglund
- Melissa Laplante
- Nicola Mantzaras
- Hannah Miller
January 2009
- Erikka Addams
- Jessica DeAngelis
- Steph Donohue
- Andrea Garvey
- Jeremy Grubman
- Jessica Haglund
- Charlie Remy
- Laura Rosenberg
- Lauren Vander Zanden
2010
Possibly you?
Check out Jessica Haglund's 2009 Nicaragua Trip FAQ San Juan del Sur Trip Information & Facts
- Sign up here if you're interested in volunteering in Nicaragua in August 2009.
- No commitment at this point, sign up even if you're just daydreaming!
- Simply edit the wiki, and sign your name
- please email sir@simmons.edu with your contact information
Nicaragua Video Project
SIR is collaborating on a project to develop a video about the SJDS Biblioteca Movil lending library project in Nicaragua. Project documentation can be found in the NicaVideo namespace on this wiki. To start, see the Project Overview page.
Some of the early video was edited together for a SIR event in late 2006. It is available online via Google Video.
