Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Professor at Simmons College GSLIS
- Education
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- Syracuse University
- McGill University
- McGill University
- Simmons College
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Candy Schwartz’s Summary
I have been helping to create new librarians for more than a quarter of a century. In addition to teaching, I coordinate doctoral studies at Simmons GSLIS, am co-editor of Library & Information Science Research, a well-regarded peer-reviewed journal.
Candy Schwartz’s Specialties:
My teaching areas include organization, cataloguing, classification, indexing, digital libraries, Web design, and related topics.
Candy Schwartz’s Experience
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Professor
Simmons College GSLIS
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 1980 — Present (29 years 11 months)
I am a faculty member of the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Simmons. I currently teach in the areas of information organization, bibliographic control, subjecy analysis, thesauri and taxonomies, and digital libraries. I am also Coordinator of Doctoral Studies.
Candy Schwartz’s Education
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Syracuse University
PhD , Information Studies , 1977 — 1986
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McGill University
MLS , Library and Information Science , 1972 — 1974
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McGill University
BA , Linguistics , 1964 — 1969
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Simmons College
Additional Information
Candy Schwartz’s Interests:
classification, metadata, indexing, travel, Celtic music, Middle-earth
Candy Schwartz’s Groups:
American Society for information Science and Technology, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Information Retrieval, Zoo New England
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Candy Schwartz’s Honors:
Outstanding Information Science Teacher (American Society for Information Science), Watson Davis Award (American Society for Information Science and Technology)
