News & Notes
by Kami Bedard, kbedard@PierceAtwood.com 

Jane Cain, part-time Reference Assistant at both the Northborough Public Library and the Berlin Public Library, has accepted her first professional position following her completion of the MLS from Simmons this past December. She is now the Head of Technical Services at the Shrewsbury (Massachusetts) Public Library. 

Cynthia Cheng Correia, Principal of Knowledge inForm, participated in the joint project of the Simmons College GSLIS and the Harvard University library system to train Iraqi librarians, archivists, and information professionals. The program was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and was conducted in Amman, Jordan in July.

Cynthia Cheng Correia, Principal of Knowledge inForm, recently launched the first series of competitive intelligence webinars designed to support the continuous development of competitive intelligence skills, resources, and practices for all levels of CI professionals.

Melissa Hilbert joined Ex Libris as Verde Implementation Librarian, working out of Ex Libris' Boston office. Melissa was formerly the Electronic Resources Librarian at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Margaret Howe-Soper has been busy since leaving HBS in May. She received the Chapter's Distinguished Service Award, attended the SLA conference in Toronto, took a Reader's Advisory Service workshop, and traveled the U.S. to visit all of her children and do some consulting about setting up and moving libraries. 

Becky Smith, the head of the Business & Economics Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was recently elected to the Secretary position within SLA’s Leadership and Management Division.

On June 5th, Cindy Stavropoulos celebrated her 20th year of service anniversary at Bain & Company, Inc.  She is currently the Manager of Northeast Information Services.

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