I’m Clare Davitt, the Fellow for Dean’s Initiatives at Simmons College in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. ?On Thursday, July 28th I’ll be traveling to Seoul, South Korea with five other graduate students and two of our faculty.… Read the rest
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Preparing for Summer Travel Course in Ko...
Dean’s Fellow for International Initiatives Stacie Parillo traveled to Seoul, South Korea this month in preparation for the GSLIS travel course to Yonsei University this summer.
Dec 12
I spent the day flying to Seoul. The flight is really long, over 14 hours.… Read the rest
Seoul National University Library
Tucked toward the back of a hilly campus, this six-story library is home to over 880,000 volumes of books.
Namsan Public Library
While it was similar to most of our public libraries, I thought Namsan had some really nice programs, including a very interesting-sounding one called “Bibliotherapy”.? I love the idea of books as therapeutic and wish I could have understood a little bit more about how it worked, but unfortunately the language barrier was a little more challenging than usual on this visit.??… Read the rest
Yonsei Samsung University Library
Like the National Library, Yonsei was a study in technology and innovation. (Also like at the National library, I would have stayed if I could!? Luckily, we were granted temporary library cards so I spent an entire afternoon just wandering around and admiring the virtual fish pond, below).… Read the rest
A Different Classroom Experience
August 14 was the last day of our academic libraries class at Yonsei University, which is a course offered by Simmons College and co-taught by Professor Claudia Morner and Professor Ji-Hong Park. The class covers the functions and challenges of academic libraries in the United States and Korea and includes eight Simmons students and seven Yonsei students.… Read the rest