Simmons College News

The Newton Library Trustees announced yesterday they have appointed Milton Library Director Phil McNulty as the new director at the Newton Free Library .A According to a press release issued by the Trustees, McNulty will take the helm as Newton's library director in early June.A "The Newton Free Library has incredible output and a wonderful service ... (more)

The Brookfield Historical Society will host the Gurski Farmstead Spring Open House on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will feature Brookfield residents Ryan Blessey and Robert Pitcher each giving hands-on blacksmithing demonstrations at the forge.

A commercial street bustles with activity in the Lublin ghetto near a sign forbidding entry, in Warsaw, Poland, in 1941-42. Even after decades of in-depth Holocaust research, excruciating details are only now emerging about more than 1,100 German-run ghettos in Eastern Europe where the Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews.

Since she graduated from college in 1972, Nancy Perlow has been a familiar face at the Newton Free Library .

Even after decades of in-depth Holocaust research, excruciating details are only now emerging about more than 1,100 German-run ghettos in Eastern Europe where the Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews.

Last Friday , the Chicago-based American Library Association announced that Barbara K. Stripling, Assistant Professor of Practice at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, had been elected to the presidency of the ALA for 2013-14.A The 2012-2013 president of the ALA is Maureen Sullivan, Professor of Practice in the Ph.D. program, Managerial ... (more)

The University of Louisville's collaboration with West Louisville schools, businesses and health-care providers, known as the U of L Signature Partnership Initiative, will celebrate its fifth year of activity on Tuesday with a dinner at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Sylvia Maxfield has been named dean of the School of Business at Providence College.

Ryan Barber, who works at a Boston law firm, enrolled in a library sciences master's degree program at Simmons College in 2010.

Annette T. Whiting, 96, died Thursday, April 19, 2012, at the Homestead Hospice House.

The college on Thursday announced that Sylvia Maxfield will join the School of Business from Simmons College in Boston.