GSLIS
/Spring 2012
Posted May 7, 2012 by Danielle Geller
With only one last class and one last presentation to give, Im facing the end of the semester, and I cant believe it went by so quickly! Ive had a great experience in my Introduction to Archival Methods and Services class, and I learned so much from my internship with the Cambridge Historical Society. The finding aid I created should be up on their website soon, and its given me a tremendous sense of accomplishment to process an entire collection from start to finish! This summer Ill be looking forward to an internship with the Repatriation Department of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indians Cultural Resources Center (phew, thats a lot of words). My internship starts on June 4th and lasts through the 10th of August, and Ive been doing a ton of reading and research on my own before it starts! I believe quite a few of us here intend to blog over the course of the summer, and Ill have a lot more to say about it once it starts! For…
GSLIS Mixer and Trivia
Posted February 7, 2011 by homerj
On Friday LISSA (Library and Information Science Student Association) had a GSLIS Mixer and Trivia night at the Bell in Hand Tavern here in Boston. LISSA is a student group you are automatically entered in once you start here at Simmons GSLIS and they plan different types of events, everything from Guest Speakers to Trivia nights. Let’s just state that my group had the best name of the night. I had some pretty funny names (being somewhat of a trivia connoisseur) but we decided to go with “This is how we Dewey it” (which I thought was weak to my other suggestion: “Junk in the truncation” [which is hysterical I might add]) but majority rules and we went with Dewey. Clearly we won the name contest. Then the trivia began. What do you ask a bunch of Library Science students you ask? Oh just some facts about Libraries/Librarians. The first round asked pop culture related questions. One such example is the quote: “Look, I… I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a…