The first weekend in April, I had the opportunity to visit the Simmons campus while I was in Boston for the weekend. When I stumbled off the plane after a red-eyed night in the air …
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Real Talk: Incorporating Archivists without Borders U.S. Chapter Pt. II
The Incorporation Committee (AwB U.S. – IC) met on March 12 via Google Hangout, as the committee is spread across the Eastern seaboard–Boston to North Carolina! We congregated to commence the work and operations slated for …
In the Same Room: The Ethics and Politics of Space
When it came time for the last talk of the last panel of the Simmons GSLIS 2nd Annual Graduate Symposium, presenter Eva Rios-Alvarado took a moment to acknowledge her presence: “It’s hard to be a …
Real Talk: Incorporating Archivists without Borders U.S. Chapter Pt. I
On December 7, 2012, the?Library and Information Science Student Association?hosted the end-of-semester celebration?GSLIS Talks. As a full-time worker and part-time student, I don’t often have time to attend on-campus events but, as …
Spring Cleaning: On Maintaining Our Personal Archives
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 …
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 …
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 …