News from the ALASC student newsletter, The Descriptor. The Descriptor was discontinued in 2017 but we thank all contributing students for their efforts.
by Mira Geffner This week, I was part of a lucky group of students from the SJSU School of Library & Information Science. The staff of the Mountain View Mobile Library was generous enough to show us their vehicle, inside and out, and spend a couple of hours showing us all the back-of-house organization that makes it go. This vehicle…
Welcome to the March 2012 issue of the SLIS Descriptor! This issue features: Recaps and photos of two library tours hosted by ALASC: Mountain View Public Mobile Library and Berkeley C. V. Starr East Asian Library Mira Geffner’s review of the bill banning ethnic studies in Arizona Amanda Heath’s experience attending a Southern California Instruction Librarians (SCIL) workshop Alison Leonard’s…
In March 2011, ALASC held a tour of the Berkeley C. V. Starr East Asian Library. The tour was led by library Executive Manager of Administrative and Editorial Services, Deborah Rudolph. This library is a language specialty, not subject specialty, library. Therefore, materials are primarily in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. Classical Korean manuscripts, Chinese rubbings, and the largest…
by Emily Weak I was one of those people who lucked out and had an internship turn into a paid job. An awesome paid job at the special-est of special libraries. It started out entry level, and then I was promoted to library assistant within two months. I worked there through my last year at SLIS, and then spent another…
by Mira Geffner At the beginning of January, the Tucson Unified School District bowed to a state ban on ethnic studies education, effectively censoring a list of more than 50 books that were part of the city’s Mexican American Studies curriculum. A few weeks later, I learned about the ban when a classmate posted news about it to our open…