{"id":1291,"date":"2015-11-04T17:11:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2015-11-04T17:47:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:47:42","slug":"experience-a-private-collection-in-our-own-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"Experience a private collection in our own backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1293\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/files\/2015\/11\/frenchlibrary.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1293\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1293\" src=\"http:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/files\/2015\/11\/frenchlibrary-300x121.png\" alt=\"French Cultural Center - Online Library\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/files\/2015\/11\/frenchlibrary-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/files\/2015\/11\/frenchlibrary.png 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French Cultural Center &#8211; Online Library<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong>Please join ASIS&amp;T and SCIRRT this <span style=\"color: #800000\">Friday (Nov 6th)<\/span> as they tour the private collection of <a style=\"color: #808080\" href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchculturalcenter.org\/index.cfm\/library\/\" target=\"_blank\">The French Cultural Center<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">The group will first meet up\u00a0at\u00a01:15pm\u00a0at the Arlington T Station. \u00a0From there the group will continue on and meet at the <span style=\"color: #800000\"><a style=\"color: #800000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/French+Cultural+Center\/@42.3533643,-71.0762467,16.16z\/data=!4m13!1m10!4m9!1m0!1m6!1m2!1s0x89e37a0abf1ab81b:0x9eef1e50882900de!2sFrench+Cultural+Center,+53+Marlborough+St,+Boston,+MA+02116!2m2!1d-71.0748186!2d42.3541923!3e2!3m1!1s0x0:0x9eef1e50882900de\" target=\"_blank\">French Cultural Center 2pm<\/a><\/span>. Please\u00a0plan to arrive promptly at\u00a02:00pm. \u00a0The Library is closed to the public on Fridays, but will be open for this special Simmons tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 11.0pt\">The tour of the library will be led by head librarian, Marie Lalev\u00e9e. The French Cultural Center and Library was founded in Boston in 1945. It began as a one-room collection of 500 books. Today, the library holds 28,000 French language materials for all ages. It is the second largest private collection of French books, periodicals, DVDs, and CDs available in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;line-height: 1.6471\">Please contact ASIS&amp;T Co-Chair Jesse Moskowitz or SCIRRT Co-Chair Sam Quinon with any questions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join ASIS&amp;T and SCIRRT this Friday (Nov 6th) as they tour the private collection of The French Cultural Center. &nbsp; The group will first meet up\u00a0at\u00a01:15pm\u00a0at the Arlington T Station. \u00a0From there the group will continue on and meet at the French Cultural Center 2pm. Please\u00a0plan to arrive promptly at\u00a02:00pm. \u00a0The Library is closed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18924,49,235,17913],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-simmons-asist","category-news","category-special-libraries","category-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}