Welcome to the Winter issue of ALASC’s newsletter, the iSchool Descriptor! This issue is a blend of student and faculty voices. You will learn about one student’s internship experience with Libraries Without Borders, and you will read a course review from one of our first-year MLIS candidates. We also have three of our beloved faculty as contributors to this issue, all of whom…
Learning Advanced Information Literacy Skills by Andrea Meszaros This past semester, I was introduced to the world of online graduate studies when I started my MLIS at the iSchool. In LIBR 203, I learned about many of the resources available to us as online students, including the SJSU King Library website. I was excited to find out about all…
Stepping into International Librarianship with Librarians Without Borders by Alison Peters I am having more fun in library school than I ever imagined possible. A wonderful conundrum that is making it a challenge to reach the endgame (graduation), but which is allowing me the opportunity to participate in exciting LIS experience after experience, learning and growing all the way.…
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…