Podcasts
Funded by a PTRC (Pottruck Technology Resource Center) grant in Fall 2006, GSLIScast was created to bring the content of on-campus talks and presentations to the wider GSLIS community. With podcasts of lectures ranging from "On the Library Crimes Beat" (Kim Martineau, Hartford Courant journalist; March 2007) to "Working with First Responders and Emergency Managers" (Sara Wolf, Northeast Museum Services Center of the National Park Service as part of the November 2008 New England Archivists meeting), GSLIScast brings Simmons GSLIS to you. The best part? In addition to the podcasts themselves, we provide supporting PPT presentations, PDF documents, and affiliated websites, [along with full transcripts for the hearing impaired.]
- GSLIScast website: http://gslis.simmons.edu/podcasts/
- To sign up for RSS feed: feed://gslis.simmons.edu/podcasts/podcast.php
GSLIS Staff began Tweeting in January 2009 under the user profile twitter.com/simmonsgslis. With representatives from the GSLIS Admission, Continuing Education, Curriculum & Communications, and Technology offices, as well as the Simmons College Career Resource Library, tweeting regularly about what's going on on campus, locally, and in the LIS world, you never know what you'll find. To help you find us better, we've started using the following hashtags: #gslisadm, #gslisce, #gsliscomm, #gslistech, #gsliscrl. Here are some of the people tweeting under those tags (for full bios, please see our People pages; everyone noted below will be listed in the Staff Profiles area unless otherwise indicated):
GSLIS Admission Office (#gslisadm)
Lauren Hruska, Admission
Assistant
Sarah Petrakos, Assistant Dean for Admission and Recruitment: Sarah joined Simmons GSLIS in January 2009 after working at three other colleges and universities in Graduate Admission. She earned her MBA in Marketing at Boston College and is an active member of the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals (NAGAP).
GSLIS Continuing Education (#gslisce)
Kris Liberman '87LS, Program
Manager Continuing Education
GSLIS Curriculum & Communication (#gsliscomm)
Jennifer Doyle '98LS, Director of GSLIS Curriculum & Communication: Jen graduated from the GSLIS
program in 1998. After stints at the EPA Region 1 Library, the Institute for Business and Home Safety, and
the Insurance Library Association of Boston, she returned to GSLIS in 2001 where, as Director of Curriculum
& Communications, she oversees the GSLIS course schedule, manages all GSLIS print and online
publications, and serves as project coordinator of the GSLIS Reaccreditation Program Presentation. You can
also find Jen at twitter.com/doylej.
Alisa Libby, Communications Assistant: As the GSLIS Communications Assistant, Alisa supports all aspects of the GSLIS publications and also serves as Co-Editor of the GSLIS InfoLink newsletter. She is also a young adult novelist whose second book, The King's Rose, is being released on March 19, 2009. Read more about the new book at www.alisalibby.com or follow Alisa's tweets at twitter.com/alisalibby.
GSLIS Technology Office (#gslistech)
Linnea Johnson, Assistant Manager
of Information Technology: Linnea also tweets at twitter.com/leonnea.
Simmons College Libraries/Career Resource Library (#gsliscrl)
Cheryl
Kohen, Career Resource Librarian: Cheryl became Career Resource Librarian in December 2007. Aside from
her duties in the CRL, Cheryl also reviews career resources for the publication Choice Reviews.
Additionally, Cheryl ran a Career Center at the Massachusetts Library Association Annual Conference in May
2008, where she helped current librarians search for job opportunities and professional development, and she
has been invited to run this Career Center again for the May 2009 Conference. You can also find Cheryl at
twitter.com/mmko.
Wikis
At Simmons GSLIS, wikis don't just support classroom activities, they've been used by the faculty to develop a new mission statement, by student groups to share information about events and activities, and by administrative staff for inter-office collaboration. There are over 300 GSLIS wikis, many of which are used in support of individual classes or by specific administrative working groups. A directory of public wikis will soon be available.
