GSLIScast

On November 5th, 2009 Lisa Woronzoff spoke about the classification and language of gender as part of the GSLIS Lunchtime Research Colloquium Series. The purpose of the talk was to unravel the varying terms applied to gender; male, female, neutral, intersex, trans, to examine the discriminatory factors created in society by separating individuals based on gender determining characteristics.

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Partners in Rhyme / Scratchin

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On November 5th, 2009 the Simmons Chapter of the Society of American Archivists sponsored a panel on Disaster Prevention and Awareness in Libraries and Archives. The panelists were Gregor Trinkaus-Randall, the Massachusetts Library Board’s Disaster and Emergency Assistance director, Susan Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services at Harvard’s Houghton Library, Carie McGinnis, Houghton’s preservation librarian, and Lori Foley from the Northeast Document Conservation Center.

SCOSAA website

The sponsoring organizations Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivsts

Partners in Rhyme / Tango 1

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On November 3rd, 2009 PANOPTICON, the Art Libraries and Visual Resources Interest Group at Simmons College, co-sponsored with Simmons SLA, a panel of artists. The panel featured six current art students: Lisa Gross, Stephanie Cardon, Gregory Vershbow, Courtney Lockemer, Kirk Amaral Snow, and Jack W. Schneider.

PANOPTICON

The sponsor's blog plus links to the artists' websites

Simmons SLA

The co-sponsoring student chapter of the Special Libraries Association

Partners in Rhyme / Musette

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On October 22, 2009 the Simmons chapter of the Society of American Archivists, Simmons International Relations and the Warburg Chair sponsored a lecture by Dr. Saad Eskander Director of the Iraqi National Library and Archive. Since 2003 Dr. Eskander has been working to rebuild the library from the ruins left behind by looters and arsonists. He is introduce by Jeff Spurr of Harvard University’s Fine Arts Library. From 1996-2005 Spurr managed the Bosnia Library Project, an effort to rebuild devastated Bosnian Libraries.

SCOSAA Event Page

Information about this event.

Iraqi National Library and Archives

Photo tour of damage and rebuilding

Dr. Eskander's 2006-7 Iraq Diary

Hosted on the British Library's website

Middle East Librarians Association

2004 Lecture by Jeff Spurr entitled "Bosnian Libraries: Their Fate in the War and Responses to it, with Lessons for Iraq"

Partners in Rhyme / Speed Kills 1

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On October 21st 2009, LISSA president Holly Erickson signed the “Student Statement on the Right to Research” on behalf of the GSLIS Students, urging the government, research funders and researchers to make their research available to the public at no cost to the reader. In the introduction before the signing GSLIS Associate Professor Robin Peek discussed the role of libraries and open access journals, just one aspect of Open Access .

GSLIS 2009 OA Week

Information about how Simmons celebrated OA Week

Open Access Week 2009

More information about OA Week worldwide

SPARC

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

Right to Research

The Student Statement on the Right to Research

Partners in Rhyme / Scattered 1

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