Monday, March 21st:

*Weekly Guided Meditation and Relaxation Sessions in Palace Road
1:30pm – 2:00pm – Counseling Center Conference Room (P-312)
Learn techniques to better manage stress during these short meditation sessions (about 20 minutes). Sessions are appropriate for all individuals, especially those new to meditation. Email questions to [email protected]

*UXPA – Tell Us What You Think About the Simmons Website
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Collaboratory (P-314)
How usable is the Simmons website? Share your thoughts with SLIS’s User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA)! Courtney Dee, Director of Online Communication & Design at Simmons College, will join us for a usability feedback session on the redesigned Simmons website. Together, we’ll look at the Academic, Admission & Financial Aid, and the SLIS internal sections of the website, and provide constructive feedback on the usability and user experience of these interfaces. Snacks will be provided! RSVP at https://simmonswebux.eventbrite.com to help make sure that we have enough snacks for everyone.

Tuesday, March 22nd:

*Simmons College Community Meetings
3:00pm – 4:00pm – Main College Building, C-103
Join members of the Simmons community for ongoing, college-wide dialogues to facilitate community building and create and sustain a more diverse and inclusive Simmons.

*SLA & SCoSAA – Breaking the Mold: Exploring Non-Traditional Jobs in Archiving
4:30pm – 5:30pm – Kotzen Room, LeFavour Hall
A panel of three professionals will be speaking about their experiences in non-traditional archive settings. The panel will include Joy McNally Brandow: Research Support Coordinator, Union of Concerned Scientists & SLA NE President-Elect; Stefanie Maclin-Hurd, Software as a Service Catalog Specialist, EBSCO & SLA NE Immediate Past President; and Heather Mumford: Archivist and Records Manager, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Wednesday, March 23rd:

*Public Lecture Series – Martha Mahard: Tales of the BPL
12:00pm – 12:50pm – Collaboratory (P-314)
Professor Martha Mahard is currently overseeing a major inventory project in the Print Department at the Boston Public Library. The inventory project is the result of a year-long study she conducted and a crisis surrounding two mis-filed prints. With no known model on which to base such an inventory, Mahard and a team of Simmons interns are gathering data on a collection of prints which spans the entire history of printmaking – both fine art and reproductive prints – as well as posters, postcards and ephemera. In her talk, Mahard will describe some of the problems encountered during her initial survey and the actual implementation of the inventory project. RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/martha-mahard-lessons-from-the-boston-public-library-a-slis-pls-lecture-tickets-19500438336

*SLIS Diversity and Inclusion Task Force – Listening Session
3:00pm – 4:00pm – Main College Building, E305
Come speak your mind (or just listen) about issues of diversity, inclusion, and equity in a safe, respectful environment. All members of SLIS (LIS, CHL, and CS) welcome! Questions or comments? Contact [email protected]

*SCIRRT – International LIS Education Panel
4:15pm – 5:30pm – Collaboratory (P-314)
Please join the Student Chapter of the International Relations Roundtable for a panel about LIS education abroad. Speakers from the UK, Kuwait, and Canada will tell us about what it takes to become a librarian or archivist outside of the US. Refreshments will be served.

Saturday, March 26th:

*DERAIL Forum
10:00am – 5:00pm – School of Management 501/502
The Diversity, Equity, Race, Accessibility, and Identity in LIS (DERAIL) Forum is a student-organized event to bring SLIS students together to discuss how systemic forms of oppression operate within LIS, and how social justice frameworks can guide our work as students and practitioners. Register here. A complete program is now available online.

Conference Scholarship Opportunity

*Apply for the SCIRRT Scholarship to attend IFLA’s annual conference!
March 30, 2016 (Deadline for Submission)

The 82nd International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) General Conference and Assembly (http://2016.ifla.org/) will be held in the U.S. this year from August 13 to 19, 2016 at Columbus, Ohio! In an effort to encourage students to attend, the Simmons Student Chapter of the ALA International Relations Round Table (SCIRRT) will be offering a scholarship to cover the $282 conference registration fees for one Simmons SLIS student.

Applications are available online here: http://goo.gl/forms/GjnTcbZYsP
For more details, please see the scholarship guidelines at https://goo.gl/IEWw7L
Contact SCIRRT Co-Chairs Reham Alshaheen ([email protected]) or Anna Wada ([email protected]) with any questions.