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: Anthony Bernier, PhD, Associate Professor What were you doing before you joined SJSU’s School of Information? In the days before I joined the SJSU faculty, I was in the fourth year of my five-year plan as a library administrator for a public library. I served as director of Young Adult Services for the Oakland Public Library in…
Faculty Voices: Sean Gaffney, Lecturer What were you doing before you joined SJSU’s School of Information? I joined SJSU in 2008 as a part-time faculty member. After almost 10 years with the Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) in Decatur, IL in a variety of roles, including senior information scientist, manager of information resources and head research librarian, I accepted…
Faculty Voices: Nancy MacKay, Lecturer What were you doing before you joined SJSU’s School of Information? I was working at the F.W. Olin Library at Mills College as the Head of Technical Services (that is, all the tasks behind the scenes in a library). Though my primary responsibility was cataloging, over the 22 years I worked there, I did…
Welcome to the Fall issue of ALASC’s newsletter, the iSchool Descriptor! In this issue, you will get to read about an ALASC-sponsored virtual event. You will get to know one of our peers in their new professional role as an information specialist. You will catch a glimpse of one student's experience as virtual and on-site intern working in information…
The Ultimate Team Project: Presenting at a Library Conference by Sara Kelso If you are a library student or a newly minted MLIS-degreed, bonafide “master of library and information science,” you have probably given some thought to what comes next in your career pursuits. It is possible you already follow blogs and listservs, read journals, have a LinkedIn profile, and…