Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Location: Palace Road Building P-213, Simmons College
Join us for a a presentation by J. Darcy Duke and Stephanie Hartman, UX librarians at the MIT Libraries, on UX research. …
GSLIS Lunchtime Lecture Series: Reporting back from ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2012
Date: Thursday, November 15,2012
Time: 12:10 – 1:00 pm
Location: Palace Road Building P-208, Simmons College
ASIS&T recently held its 2012 Annual Meeting in Baltimore (Oct 26-30). The theme was “Information, Interaction, Innovation: Celebrating the Past, Constructing the Present …
World Usability Day at Simmons College
World Usability Day at Simmons College
To celebrate World Usability Day 2012, UXPA @ Simmons proudly presents its usability feedback event on November 8, 2012, featuring four local organizations demonstrating their system interface design to obtain on-the-spot usability evaluation and …
PeerJ: Could It Transform Open Access Publishing?
Here’s some food for thought for Open Access Week.
This ACRL TechConnect blog post looks at PeerJ, an OA publisher which seeks to introduce a new model of OA. PeerJ offers a low-cost, one-time fee to article authors as …
GSLIS Lunchtime Lecture Series: “Working in Open Access–Ready to be an Advocate?” with Robin Peek
Date: Tuesday, October 23,2012
Time: 12:10 – 1:00 pm
Location: Palace Road Building P-207, Simmons College
Learn about career opportunities in open access!
Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
… Unveiling the Mercedes Agulló y Cobo Digital Library
Unveiling the Mercedes Agulló y Cobo Digital Library, an Open Access Week event at UMass Boston
Date: Tuesday, October 23
Time: 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Center for Library Instruction (CLI), 4th floor, Joseph P. Healey Library, UMass Boston, …
Tour of Google Cambridge
Simmons ASIS&T Student Chapter is pleased to offer a tour of the Google Cambridge office!
The tour will include a 30-minute meeting with a current Simmons GSLIS student who works with the Google Books project, followed by a 40-minute tour …
NEASIS&T Fall Meet-up
Would you like to spend an evening noshing on free hors d’ouvres over stimulating conversation with some tech savvy librarians from MIT, Suffolk University, the MA State Library, and other New England libraries? But of course!
Mark your calendars …
How to Make Your Research Open Access (Whether You’re at Harvard or Not)
How to Make Your Research Open Access (Whether You’re at Harvard or Not)
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is hosting a luncheon event with Peter Suber and Stuart Shieber. This will be an “open forum on the Harvard …
UXPA @ Simmons: Tour of MIT IS&T Usability Lab
Tour of MIT IS&T Usability Lab
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
4:30 – 5:30 pm
Greetings from the Simmons Usability group! SUPA has recently changed its name to UXPA @ Simmons! UXPA stands for User Experience Professionals Association.…