In my last post, I wrote about the changes unfolding this spring in the realm of research funding and access to scholarly output. Today?s post is also spring-themed, although it takes its inspiration from a …
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The Next “Academic Spring” Is Here
Spring is coming, and it is going to be an exciting one.
Last year, the scholarly publishing world witnessed the “Academic Spring,” during which scientists boycotted?traditional subscription-based publishers (specifically, Elsevier) and encouraged their colleagues …
Adventure Bound: Confessions of a Future Ninja Archivist
Heather Szafran
I never know where I’m gonna wind up when I get up in the morning; that’s half the fun of waking up, for sure. Sometimes that very phenomenon stretches over days, months years–forever, it seems–and it is through …
Mastering the Science of Online Library School
Last week, I kicked off this series by putting the GSLIS online archives cohort on the map-virtually and geographically. Now that I’ve discussed where and who we are, I want to turn to the question of …
SCoSAA Event Recap: COSTEP MA
Caitlin Birch, SCoSAA Archivist/Secretary (@preserCAITion)
Just a little over a week before Winter Storm Nemo?dumped upwards of two feet of snow on Boston and sent ocean waves surging inland along coastal Massachusetts, former?SAA?President?…
Simmons in San Francisco: The GSLIS Archives Management Concentration Goes Online
Being an archivist means being equally comfortable in solitude as among a community. The navigation of these two realms takes on a different meaning online. As a member of the first-ever Simmons GSLIS online …
SAA 2012 Recap: Sarah Gustafson
I debated a long time about attending the SAA annual meeting this year in San Diego. I wasn?t sure what it could offer a first year graduate student and if it would be worth the time and the money it …
The Capstone Internship: Ask and You Shall Receive
Rolande Duprey
At the outset, I wanted to find an internship doing something within corporate records management. I felt that I needed to know more about this aspect of archival work, and started ?shopping? for an internship with a corporation …
SAA 2012 Recap: Lori Birrell
Lori Birrell is a Simmons GSLIS 2011 graduate who has kindly allowed SCoSAA to feature her recap of the SAA 2012 session called Crowdsourcing Our Collections: Three Case Studies of User Participation in Metadata Creation and Enhancement. Lori is working …
Notes from the Field: Miriam Kashem Interns at Florida International University
Miriam Kashem
Hello, my name is Miriam, an Archives Management/History dual-degree student. This summer, like many Archives students, I have been completing the LIS 502 130-hour internship. I chose to do my internship at home since I would be here …