Current Students
Welcome to the Current Students site! We have brought together resources, links, and information that you may find uesful while you're a GSLIS student. Can't find something? Have an idea for a new resource? Let us know!
News and Announcements
Helen Drinin '75LS featured in Boston Business Journal
Simmons College President and GSLIS alum Helen Drinan was featured as the "In Person" profile in the Boston Business Journal on June 14, 2013. Her profile, titled "Putting Simmons 'on the map' for Women," focuses on Drinan's work to make... read more »
PhD/MLIP Student Honored at White House
Congratulations to Sue Considine, who was recently honored as a "Champion of Change" at the White House. Considine is a current PhD/MLIP student at GSLIS, and is also the Executive Director of the Fayetteville Free Library in Fayetteville, NY. These... read more »
GSLIS Alum named Vice President of the Harvard Library
Sarah Thomas '73LS of the University of Oxford has been named vice president for the Harvard Library. In this role, Thomas will have overall responsibility for the Harvard Library and will collaborate closely with the Library Board, the Faculty Advisory... read more »
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2013 GSLIS Commencement Awards!
Kenneth R. Shaffer Outstanding Student Award: Jan Day Daniel Fleming Outstanding Student Library Teacher Award: Emily Houston Estelle Jussim Award: Jasmine Jones GSLIS Western Campus Leadership Award: Michelle Fredette Outstanding Information Science Student Award: Arthur Liu... read more »
GSLIS Grad Elected President of ALA
Courtney Louise Young, a 1997 graduate of GSLIS and head librarian at the Penn State Greater Allegheny, has been elected president-elect of the American Library Association. Young defeated Barbara Froling Immroth, professor at the University of Texas at Austin School... read more »
Professor Cloonan Editor-in-Chief of Preservation, Digital Technology And Culture
The first issue of Preservation, Digital Technology and Culture (PDT&C), previously Microform and Digitization Review, was published in March 2013. With the new editor-in-chief, Simmons GSLIS Dean Emerita and Professor Michèle Cloonan, comes a new title and a stronger focus... read more »
GSLIS Alumni Board Hosts BiblioBrews in D.C.
On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 the GSLIS Alumni Board hosted a BiblioBrews event in Washington, DC. Alumni from the classes of 1976 up to 2012 were there and the conversation was lively. Guests shared stories about their career paths and... read more »
Archived Infolink - April 2013
Check out the April 2013 issue of Infolink!... read more »
Annual Graduate Symposium
The 2nd Annual Graduate Symposium took place on Saturday, March 30, 2013, as a result of collaborative work of the diverse GSLIS student organizations, including SCoSAA, Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG), American Library Association Student Chapter (ALASC), Panopticon, LISSA, American Society for Information Science and Technology... read more »
Ph.D. Profile: Katherine McCanless Ruffin
Katherine McCanless Ruffin is a professional book artist pursuing a doctorate in library and information science. Ruffin multi-tasks with Olympian discipline as Book Arts Program Director at Wellesley College's Clapp Library; lecturer in the College of Fine Arts at Boston University; entrepreneur at Shinola Press; trustee of the American... read more »