Written by Jacklyn Roussin & Wendy Thompson Cat’s Journey with ALASC: Cat first joined ALASC as a Social Media Assistant in Spring 2023. Her main goal was to improve the Chapter’s Goodreads account. In an attempt to achieve this goal, Cat made a new Goodreads group and worked to boost engagement, but despite her efforts, it didn’t gain the…
Written by Sophia Catalano, Blogging CoordinatorÂ
April is Deaf History Month and the SJSU ALASC would like to highlight a very special and important figure in the Deaf and library communities: Alice Lougee Hagemeyer. While not born deaf, Alice would go on to become an activist for the Deaf community, an advocate for deaf people in libraries, and a champion for federal funding to be granted for services for the deaf in public libraries.Â
written by Cat Tang, ALASC Chair As the Fall 2025 semester comes to an end, it is that bittersweet time once again to say goodbye and congratulations to our graduating ALASC Executive Committee members! This semester, we say goodbye to our Social Media team members, Jacklyn (Jackie) Roussin and Wendy Thompson. Our Vice Chair, Eddie Lagos, though not graduating, is…
No health insurance is required to receive support with finding health information from your local public library. Public libraries are great resources where patrons can access reliable health information due to their ability to reach people beyond formal health care settings. In this blog, I wanted to highlight a few public libraries who are doing great work in providing health…
Andrea, it must be nice to work in a library- it’s so nice and quiet, you probably get a lot of reading done! …. uhm... Working at a library can be very wonderful, just not in the way you’d expect. It’s a customer service job, so you are in the position of helping people enjoy their time at the library-…