Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Realm of reference. Do or die for the Dewey Decimal. Jackie Dowling, Do ris Kelleher, Nancy Mclntyre, Jean Murphy and Monica Harrington. Shirley Smith looks for the proverbial needle in the haystack. Irene Charnicki, Dodie Neville and Barbara Houle r those ten-ton refer- ence books. {26 }

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for Home Ec ' ers Sue Watanabe, Sylvia Brown and Janet Hopf warn — The way to a man s heart is through his stomach. Cindy Hardy recommends play therapy . . . A stitch in time . . . {25

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cross reference, et al After a blissful three years of liberal arts, the typical library school senior is suddenly plunged into a maze of dictionaries and subject headings, selective aids and Cutter numbers. From this seeming con- fusion emerges one of Simmons ' most sought-after graduates; placement for her is simply a matter of deciding which one of the many offered jobs to choose. The library profession is flexible enough to provide for almost all kinds of interests and al- most all kinds of jobs — research or driving a book- mobile; scholarly or on the pre-school level. The senior year at Simmons is the starter in the library field. Into that one lone senior year have gone many hours of figuring out Dewey ' s simplified spelling, furtive searches for red pencils, cries of But what IS the difference between ' x ' and ' xx? ' and read- ing everything from Ideas and Men to Winnie the Pooh. There have been trips to the various inner sancta of the library world — the Atheneum (that proper Bostonian ' s retreat), to Harvard ' s Houghton Library. There have been coffee hours in Stowaway (an activity by no means restricted to the Library School) and social gatherings in 318. At the end of such a year, armed now with her BS in LS, the Simmons girl goes forth to brave the perils of the children ' s room or the intricacies of catalog- ing, or to answer rechercha questions about the annua] precipitation in Patagonia. And she also goes forth to prove to the world at large that the Library is a Social Institution. In addition to the four-year program at Simmons, there are the five-year plan leading to a Master ' s de- gree and two programs for college graduates — one general and the other specialized — also leading to a Master ' s degree. These graduate programs have be- come increasingly popular, which accounts for the apparently anomalous presence of co-eds. With a Master ' s degree even more doors open and a whole gamut of opportunities appear in the wonderful world of books. Kenneth R. Shaffer, Directo