Posted November 1, 2013
Description of Organization Pueblo a Pueblo is a small nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting families in coffee growing communities in Guatemala. We are looking for a Guatemala Program Intern to support the Child Health and Education Program in our Santiago Atitlan office. This is an excellent opportunity to gain valuable international work experience. The program…
Posted November 1, 2013
AkLA has established a scholarship program to support the education of librarians for Alaska’s libraries. The stated purpose is to provide financial assistance to worthy students pursuing a Graduate Degree in Library Science and to encourage graduates to return to Alaska to work in professional library positions. Preference will be given to an individual meeting the…
Posted October 31, 2013
Attention archivists, students, and repositories in the New England area: The NEA newsletter is currently seeking articles about your activities and accomplishments for the January 2014 issue of the NEA newsletter. The newsletter relies entirely on entries from members, so please share your news with the archives community; we love to know what everyone is up to!…
Posted October 30, 2013
REPS was founded in late 2012 to represent the interests and needs of NEA members just beginning in the archival profession. If you’re an Archives Management student at Simmons (or a student with an interest in archives) and you’re also a current NEA member, we’d love to have you join our community. REPS has a growing membership of…
Posted October 30, 2013
EVENT: Communications & Marketing Careers Information Exchange DATE: November 16, 2013 (Wednesday) TIME: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm LOCATION: Linda K. Paresky Conference Center, MCB 3rd FloorDRESS: Business casual (or business professional) – no jeans or sneakers please! Nearly two dozen leading employers in the fields of communications and marketing have registered to attend this…
Posted October 23, 2013
Beyond Conflict (formerly the Project on Justice in Times of Transition) is looking for a student who is interested in gaining hands-on archive experience working for an internationally focused non-profit organization in the conflict resolution field by professionally archiving 20 years of historically relevant documents. **** Beyond Conflict is an internationally focused NGO…
Posted October 23, 2013
Description of Program: In concert with the mission of Fairfield University, the DiMenna-Nyselius Library Instruction Program seeks to develop information-literate lifelong learners. We define information literacy as the ability to recognize when information is needed; to effectively locate and organize information while considering the myriad of information sources and formats available; to logically and critically…
Posted October 22, 2013
The Beta Beta Chapter Student Book Award, a $500 gift certificate to the Simmons/GSLIS West Bookstore (Odyssey Bookshop), will be granted to a current student in the master’s degree program at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in December 2013. You are eligible if you: • have completed at least 12 semester…
Posted October 22, 2013
The Foundation for Children’s Books is hosting a development conference called “What’s New in Children’s Books?” for librarians and teachers, and featuring several authors and illustrators. Our upcoming conference is to be held on Saturday, November 2nd and we are looking for 2 GSLIS students who would be interested in helping us out by staffing our registration table…
Posted October 21, 2013
The MLA Rising Stars program aims to identify MLA members who have the interest, initiative and potential to provide leadership to MLA at a national level, and to promote their progress toward that goal. The program matches each Rising Star with a mentor in a yearlong leadership development curriculum. The curriculum includes experiential learning (e.g., a…
