You can find the official open positions list here
For general questions, send LISSA an email at [email protected] for more information.
Monday, 4/24, 11:00am-2:00pm
Wednesday, 4/26, 3:30pm-6:30pm.
Email [email protected] if you have any questions.
Friday, April 21st:
Community Poetry Open Mic
Take part in the community open mic night by reading poetry by your favorite poet or your own work! Feeling shy? Submit a line of poetry to the Beatley Exquisite Corps poem to create a community poem, or contribute to the poetry web experiment.
Friday, April 21st:
In this team-based event, create classification systems for different types of games. Prizes for the team with the clearest and most comprehensive system!
Keynote speaker: Candy Schwartz
Click here to RSVP and learn more.
Saturday, April 22nd:
Brought to you by MSLA-SIG (Massachusetts School Library Association – Student Interest Group)
Learn about current school library trends and hot topics at an event brought to you by MSLA-SIG. Hear from a panel of school librarians and current Simmons SLTP students on their experiences with one-to-one technology, implementing e-books and teaching students to be more critical consumers of information in this age of fake news. Snacks and refreshments will be served! We hope to see you there!
Saturday, April 22nd:
Join PLG and Panopticon for a panel discussion with Jennifer Ferretti, Siân Evans,Stephanie H Grimm, and Dawn Stahura about what it means to engage in critical librarianship and becoming visually literate. After, join us in crafting a zine of your own!
~We will be providing nifty crafting supplies~
Brought to you by Spectra and PLG (SLIS’s LGBTQ+ Affinity Group & Progressive Librarians Guild)
Free and open to the public. Free refreshments will be provided.
In this talk Che Gossett examines the legacies of Black queer solidarity with Palestinian struggle by excavating June Jordan and James Baldwin’s archives for what Jose Muñoz called the performative force of the past and its import for current prison abolitionist, Palestinian solidarity and anti-pinkwashing movements. Looking as well at the archives of George Jackson, they discuss what his archive and the original manuscript of Soledad Brother (rather than the widely available published version) reveals about Palestinian poetics, black radicalism, prison abolition and the afterlife of slavery.
Che Gossett is a Black genderqueer archivist and activist who works to excavate queer of color AIDS activist and trans archives. They are the recipient of the 2014 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award from the American Studies Association Women’s Committee, a Radcliffe research grant from Harvard University and the 2014 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at the City University of New York. Che was a member of the 2013 Archivists and Librarians Delegation to Palestine and recently presented about legacies of black queer solidarity with Palestinian struggle at the Bodies in Public conference at the American University of Beirut. Che also was a presenter at the Black liberation workshop at the 2014 National Students for Justice in Palestine conference.
Interested in learning more about Information Science & Technology? Have questions or concerns about the IS&T concentration at SLIS? Join ASIS&T for a short talk and mixer with IS&T faculty. Snacks and light refreshments will be provided.
Join SLA for a tour of the library of local law firm, WilmerHale. Librarian Karen Rutherford will share with students the WilmerHale facilities and the resources, challenges and unique practice of librarianship in a law office. For more information about the firm, please visit their website.
We will meet in the lobby of the Palace Road building at 2:45pm and travel together via the T to the firm for a 3:30 pm tour. Students are responsible for their own transportation costs. The firm is located at 60 State St, Boston, MA.
Sign up now using our Eventbrite here, spots are limited!
Please email [email protected] with any questions.
Please join us for pizza, snacks and a 16mm Film Screening Night, featuring films from the Simmons Archive Collection! We will be projecting a number of early silent films from pioneers such as:
George Melies (“A Trip to the Moon” 1902)
Lumiere Brothers (including the first motion picture from 1895)
Thomas Edison (“The Great Train Robbery” 1903)
as well as some classic silent comedy shorts from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton! The film program will be curated by Adam Schutzman, Vice President of the AMIA student chapter! A Splendid time is Guaranteed for All!
Brought to you by SCoSAA (Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists)
Given recent events, we are bringing together a panel to speak about activism and archives, comprehensive collection policies, and creating a sense of trust for donors from all places on the political spectrum in order to create an unbiased historical record even in a tense political atmosphere. We will hear from archival professionals on how they personally define and strive for professionalism and activism within archives as it relates to politically charged topics.
Come join SCoSAA during our guest lecturer panel. Professionals from a variety of archive backgrounds will be speaking about what they look for in candidates during interviews. Refreshments will be served.
Join ALA-SC for our upcoming library tour! This behind-the-scenes tour of the Cambridge Public Library will include: -Overview of the Laptop Kiosk with the Head of Research Dep’t -Book processing & circulation with the Head of Borrower Services -Overview of the Cambridge Room with the CPL Archivist -Q&A Session with CPL Deputy Director
Please RSVP here. The tour will last from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. After the tour, join ALA-SC at John Harvard’s! We will be providing appetizers and snacks there.
Directions: The Main Library is accessible by both bus and subway. The 47 bus from Simmons is a good option, or you can take the T to the Harvard Square stop. More information on parking at the library can be found here.