Simmons ALA-SC

The Simmons University Student Chapter of the American Library Association

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#librarylove (at Simmons College)

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Come out to Panopticon’s Art Show happening now on the third floor of Lefavour Hall! Check out student art work, eat, drink, and chat, and hang out 🎨 (at Simmons College)

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The @simmonsslis Career and Networking Fair is happening right now in the Paresky Center on the third floor of the Main College Building! Stop by to meet LIS professionals and learn about their institutions. #LISCareer18 (at Paresky Center, Simmons College, 300 The)

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The Cultural and Political Forces Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer

Simply calling Lamar a relevant choice comes too close to diminishing his deep expertise.

When Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer Prize for music, on Monday, he also became the first non-jazz or classical artist to collect that honor in its seventy-five-year existence. (“There’s a Pulitzer for music?” was, unfortunately, the early refrain on social media.) That Lamar was born and raised in Compton, California, and writes deft and nimble rap songs about systemic injustice, made the announcement especially thrilling. It felt like a decisive dismantling of fusty ideas about high and low art and, especially, who gets to claim genius as his own. As my colleague Doreen St. Félix wrote, “The Pulitzers got it right.” The Pulitzer board, like most award-granting institutions, still needs to be mindful of the cultural and political forces that inevitably inform its choices—of the seventy-one Pulitzer Prizes presented in Music, somehow only seven (!) have gone to women. (The first woman to garner one, Ellen Zwilich, received it in 1983—a staggering forty years after William Schuman collected the début Pulitzer in music.) Genius, of course, still has its invisible boundaries. But Lamar’s win nonetheless feels like a victory of sorts for everyone, a promise that true excellence is—as it should be—very difficult to ignore.

Read more. 

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#librarymemes

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There’s still time to become a READ poster and join our contest! Celebrate the final day of #nationallibraryweek with a #read #selfie in Beatley Library. Follow the instructions on the poster to win a prize! 🎉 (at Simmons College Beatley Library)

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#librarymemes

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Don’t forget to stop by the photo booth on the first floor of Beatley Library! Tag us @alascsimmons and use hashtags #read, #nationallibraryweek, and #simmonsslis to win a prize!! (at Simmons College Beatley Library)

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National Library Workers Day 2018

Happy National Library Workers Day 2018! The American Library Association–Allied Professional Association (ALA–APA) asked patrons throughout the US to nominate stellar library workers for their hard work, dedication, and expertise. Here are some of the many nominations honoring library workers in the Galaxy of Stars on ALA’s NLWD website.

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Take your own READ poster selfie today! Celebrate National Library Week by taking a selfie in the photobooth in Beatley Library and tag us on social media @alascsimmons with hashtags #READ, #NationalLibraryWeek, and #SimmonsSLIS 📚 (at Simmons College Beatley Library)

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Happy National Library Week! Celebrate with us by taking your own #selfie with the READ posters located in Beatley Library. Make sure to post on any social media tagging us @alascsimmons and using #READ, #NationalLibraryWeek, and #SimmonsSLIS. 4 participants will receive prizes! (at Simmons College Beatley Library)

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It’s time for game night!! Join us for pizza, snacks, games, and fun from now until 10PM 🎉 (at Simmons College)

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Celebrate National Library Week April 8-14, 2018 with the theme, "Libraries Lead." National Library Week page

Next week is National Library Week! Learn more about how to participate from @americanlibraryassoc

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Have an idea for a great #LibrariesTransform Because statement?  

Share it on Twitter or via the link before noon CT on Wednesday, April 11 for the chance to win a swag package valued at $100.  Get all the details here.  #NationalLibraryWeek 

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Mourning Dr. King

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago today, on April 4, 1968. Explore how Americans across the country mourned his death through our partners’ collections.

Selected images:

Marchers honor Martin Luther King, Jr. in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, courtesy of Mississippi Department of Archives & History via Digital Library of Georgia.

Student protestors gather to mourn in Los Angeles, courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library via California Digital Library.

Kent State students march in memory of Dr. King, courtesy of Kent State University Libraries via Ohio Digital Network.

Between 10,000 and 15,000 people marched in downtown Milwaukee, the largest civil rights march in the city’s history, courtesy of Milwaukee Public Library via Recollection Wisconsin.

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Save the date for National Library Week in D.C. - District Dispatch

On Wed., April 11, ALA is hosting an event with Rep. Lujan (D-NM-3) called "Digital Fab! Libraries Advance Entrepreneurship and Innovation." On Thurs., April 12, ALA is hosting a panel in partnership with Sen. Heinrich of New Mexico, focusing on connectivity in tribal libraries and tribal communities.

The theme of National Library Week this year is “Libraries Lead.” ALA is looking forward to spotlighting libraries leading in areas like connectivity for tribal lands, in efforts that advance the new workforce through innovation and entrepreneurship, and in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.