News from the ALASC student newsletter, The Descriptor. The Descriptor was discontinued in 2017 but we thank all contributing students for their efforts.
Faculty Voices: Debbie Faires, Director of Online Learning What were you doing before you joined SJSU’s School of Information? Before I began teaching at the school, I was a student in the program. Prior to starting graduate school, I had been a busy mother, piano teacher, and accompanist. I wanted to return to school and began SJSU’s MLIS program…
Faculty Voices: Lili Luo, PhD, Associate Professor What were you doing before you joined SJSU’s School of Information? I joined SJSU after I received my PhD in Information and Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007. Prior to that, I worked briefly at Peking University Library in China. I got my Masters of…
Scouting for Tech: My Year with the Girl Scouts at the Library by Stephanie Piccino Admit it: You do not think “tech” when you think “Girl Scouts”. You think of camping, crafts, and, of course, cookies. But these are not your mom’s Girl Scouts. They are not even mine. Today, Girl Scouts are encouraged to explore the world of…
Who Needs a DAM Librarian? Part I: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are by Deborah Fanslow First published as the December 2014 feature article in DAM News In Library Science, Not Library Silence, David Diamond proclaimed that the skills of information professionals are sorely needed in the digital asset management (DAM) field. In no uncertain terms, he initiated…
LGBTQ Youth Online Information Communities: The Intersection of Real and Virtual Space When Information Needs Are Also Social Needs by Elanna Erhardt As an “under-aged” minority population that has only recently been given much needed attention in scholarly authorship over the past twenty years, LGBTQ (or queer as an all-inclusive term) youth have information needs and desires peculiar to…