SCoSAA Pub Social Brought to you by SCoSAA (Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists)

7pm-10pm, The Puddingstone Tavern,

1592 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02120 Join SCoSAA and your fellow archivists and friends for a fun night out at the local pub. Appetizers are on us!

Vinyl Cafe Brought to you by AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists)

5:30pm- 7pm, SLIS Student Lounge

Come relax, drink tea and listen to vinyl records at AMIA’s first event of the semester! This is a “record potluck” and we invite you to bring your favorite record to play. We will be eating snacks, hanging out and chatting about audio archiving. Join us!

Spectra Welcome Back Dance Brought to you by Spectra (LGBTQ+ Affinity group)

6pm-9pm, SOM 513

Come celebrate the start of the new year and kickstart the new semester with Spectra. Chill dance and mixer. Dress up or down as you please 🙂

Resolution Revolution Brought to you by SLA (Special Libraries Association) and PLG (Progressive Librarians Guild)

11am-2pm, SLIS Lounge

How do you make sure that you actually achieve your resolutions for the New Year? Whether you are trying to make improvements in your personal health, your professional life, your academics, or your advocacy and activism efforts, making a change that lasts through January and beyond is certainly a challenge. The Resolution Revolution workshop, led by Simone I. John of Hive Soul Yoga,* will teach you to build restorative rituals that will help you prioritize what is important to you this year. Bring your journal, your curiosity, and your self-knowledge to this activity packed mini-workshop. Participants can expect to leave with worksheets, resources, and a list of personalized next steps. RSVP Here!

SoCS Welcome Bar Night Brought to you by SoCS (Students of Color at SLIS)

8:30pm-10:30pm, The Puddingstone Tavern, 1592 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02120

SoCS invites you to the bar to socialize with fellow students and chat with student leaders. Free appetizers provided! Enter into the Black Panther comic book raffle! All welcome, please join us ^_^

DERAIL 2018 Brought to you by DERAIL (Diversity, Equity, Race, Accessibility, and Identity in LIS)
March 3 & 4

The Diversity, Equity, Race, Accessibility, and Identity in LIS (DERAIL) Forum upholds the essential role of combating white supremacy and oppressive power structures in LIS institutions and pedagogy. We seek to create a productive and mindful space to explore the impacts of social justice frameworks in guiding our work as students and practitioners.

We recognize that our LIS institutions, including our graduate programs, are embedded within racist, ableist and heteropatriarchal power structures and perpetuate these same inequalities. We also recognize that this is not inevitable and that we must amplify our own voices to be heard by administrations and institutions that uncritically support the privileging of white supremacist perspectives in information environments, including but not limited to archives, libraries and museums. We acknowledge that we have vested power as practitioners in upholding or challenging oppressive power structures in our interactions with the public and within our institutions.

DERAIL stands in solidarity with students in higher education across the country who are organizing to combat oppressive curriculum and treatment. We believe in the radical potential of library and information science to facilitate meaningful discussions of the interlocking roles of race, sexuality, ability, gender and class in the maintenance of oppressive conditions in LIS.

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