Hello All! Check out the awesome activities this week!
Tuesday, March 31st:
*LISSA – SLIS Town Hall with Dean Abels
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm – Trustman Art Gallery, Main College Building
Join LISSA for a stimulating conversation with Dean Abels about all aspects of SLIS – bring your questions, comments and concerns! Come and stay for the whole event, or just as long as you can. Appetizers and beverages will be served.
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*ASIS&T – Wheelock’s Makerspace: A Show-and-Tell Presentation
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm – Wheelock EARL Center for Learning and Innovation, 180 Riverway, Boston
Mare Parker O’Toole, Assistant Director of Earl Center for Learning & Innovation, will be showing us their new and exciting educational technologies. They have an active makerspace and resource center. This makes for a rich experience to research & practice your inner child and professional interests. Arrive early at 5:30 pm for networking and snack break. Show & Tell time is 6 pm. Bell rings around 7:30 (with a half hour built in for questions, networking, and more food). Feel free to come late if need be! Open to SLIS students.
Wednesday, April 1st:
*ALA-SC – How to Get a Job
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm in School of Management M-513
ALA-SC is hosting a three-person panel of hiring professionals from public, academic, and special libraries to discuss all things related to getting a job. To find out more details, including the names of the panelists, visit the Eventbrite page. The panel will be recorded on video and made available on the SLIS Media Lab
. Questions? Email ALA-SC at [email protected].
Thursday, April 2nd:
*Lunchtime Lectures – Educating a Library Leader: Mary Elizabeth Wood at the Pratt Institute and Simmons College
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm – P-207
This talk looks at the role Library Science education – particularly its evolution from an apprentice-based model to a field of academic study in the late 19th/early 20th century – played in the career of Mary Elizabeth Wood, the founder of the modern library system in China, and a student at both Simmons College and the Pratt Institute. Mr. Wood will include thoughts of how this curious experience of speaking in Beijing at the Chinese Librarian Association Annual Meeting came about. Co-sponsored by SCIRRT & SAA student chapter.