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Volunteer needed to work with Sagebrush ILS at Mission Hill School

Filed under GSLIS Jobs and Opportunities
Posted by GSLIS, September 05, 2007
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From GSLIS Student & chair of PLG Marcel Laflamme:

At Advising Day, I spoke with Carolyn Grimes, who is the director of graduate service programs at the Scott/Ross Center for Community Service. She’s interested in partnering with PLG to match up students with libraries in the Boston area that could use our help.

One particularly exciting opportunity that she mentioned would involve working with the Mission Hill School in Roxbury. MHS is a K-8 school with just 170 students, and it’s one of several pilot schools in Boston that are experimenting with things like multi-age classrooms and democratic governance. MHS has an 8,000-volume library, and they apparently have access to Sagebrush as an ILS. However, they are only partially automated at this point, and they are hoping to find a Simmons student who could help them get Sagebrush up and running.

If you want some more hands-on experience with systems librarianship, this could be such an amazing opportunity: you’d be working in a traditionally underserved community, and you’d be developing new skills. It’s an unpaid position, but the school is right down the street from Simmons.

Interested? Let me know (marcel.laflamme@simmons.edu), and I’ll put you in touch with Carolyn at the Scott/Ross Center.