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April 8 Special Offer for GSLIS Students

Filed under GSLIS Continuing Education
Posted by GSLIS, April 04, 2006
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GSLISCE celebrates GSLIS Alumni Weekend, April 8.

FREE TUITION* (*for the first FIVE GSLIS students who register).

All other GSLIS STUDENTS CAN ATTEND BOTH WORKSHOPS on April 8 for $40.

Workshops on April 8:
“Not the Unthinkable, But What We Didn’t Think of: Preparing and Recovering from Disaster.”
and
“What is Web 2.0 and Why Should We Care?”

Chuck Patch, Director of Systems at The Historic New Orleans Collection will be speaking about Preparing and Recovering from Disaster. I heard Chuck speak at the NEDCC sponsored conference “Persistence of Memory” in November 2005, and the audience was really engaged in his presentation. As Chuck reminded the New Englanders, The Historic New Orleans Collection folks close down the building at least several times every year in preparation for hurricanes (they even have rolls of plastic permanently stapled on the top of their bookcases to release down quickly)…so if his organization was unprepared for what happened…

Patsy Baudoin, Adjunct Faculty (and recent GSLIS alum) will get us up to speed on the very “hot” topic for today’s information professionals, WEB 2.0. If you’re planning on working in the information field when you graduate, you don’t want to miss this discussion!

For registration information, please go to the website at:

http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/continuinged/workshops/

or contact:

Jody Walker, GSLISCE Program Manager
Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science
300 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115
ROOM P-212L
Tel: 617 521 2803
Fax: 617 521 3192
gslisce@simmons.edu

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Full descriptions of the workshops:

Not the Unthinkable, But What We Didn’t Think of: Preparing and Recovering from Disaster

Saturday, April 8, 2006
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
One Palace Road, Room P-206

Cultural organizations devote considerable effort to preparing disaster plans, yet often these are weighted heavily to damage mitigation, scanting the possibility that they may actually lose access to their collections and information. Precisely this situation occurred in the Gulf South in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The staffs of cultural and academic institutions of all types found themselves locked out of their facilities and dispersed throughout the country. This workshop will examine some of the lessons learned from this event. It will help participants formulate ways in which they can prepare both their physical plant and their organizational structure to cope with loss of infrastructure and communications. Very few events are as destructive as a hurricane, but the preparation of recovery plans for an event of such magnitude will also stand an organization in good stead in the event of smaller, more typical disasters. The primary focus of the workshop will be on the post disaster period. It will concentrate on the problems of communication, alternative administrative site selection, re-establishing business operations, and directing dispersed staff.

Faculty: Chuck Patch, Director of Systems, The Historic New Orleans Collection, chuckp@hnoc.org

What is Web 2.0 and Why Should We Care?
Saturday, April 8, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
One Palace Road, P-206

Blogs, RSS feeds, wikis, folksonomies, AJAX, Ruby - all of these are Web 2.0 phenomena. Web 2.0 is disruptive, it’s in constant motion, and it makes Web 1.0 (the web we know well) feel very slow and static. Web 2.0 is hard to pin down, but those who work with it, in it, and on it recognize the opportunities and challenges of creating, sharing, communicating, and finding information within this environment. Information professionals cannot afford to be left behind. Explore the dramatic shift Web 2.0 brings to information management.

Faculty: Patsy Baudoin, Adjunct Faculty, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, baudoin@simmons.edu