News from the ALASC student newsletter, The Descriptor. The Descriptor was discontinued in 2017 but we thank all contributing students for their efforts.
A Bibliophile’s Second Home by Alyssa Erichsen Innumerable ideas meet and reside here. Bits and parts of them sit on shelves, pieces that writers deemed fit to extract from their heads and commit to a page. These ideas, some vastly at odds with each other, are yet comfortable side-by-side upon their perches. This vast rank and file is not…
Welcome to the Summer issue of ALASC’s newsletter, the SLIS Descriptor! This special issue is devoted to a sampling of the creativity in our community (not including my photo editing skills, so please excuse certain headshots). This time around, we have about twice as many contributors with their short stories, illustrations, poems, collage/photomontage, hand-crafted fashion, photography, and sculpture. Two of…
Profiling a Book Collection by Julia B. Chambers Last fall, I was hired to be the middle school librarian at an independent middle school in Danville, California. One of the many orientation meetings I attended involved the theme of equity and inclusion in the classroom. All new hires were asked to choose one aspect of our curriculum that could be…
Leadership in the Online Environment by Elaine Hall “The timeless challenge of leadership is to bring together a group of diverse individuals and create an environment where they will work together effectively toward common, shared goals” (Quigley, 2013, p. 28). The mission of our student organizations here at SJSU’s School of Library and Information Science is to focus on…
I Know Nothing about Robotics: How to Run a Robotics Program on a Small Budget with Zero Experience by Rachel Shaw I know nothing about robotics. I take that back. I know a few things about robotics, mostly because I teach a robotics class. Like everyone else, I was perpetually warned about the state of the job market. I was…