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…
By Alison Leonard, MA, MLIS “What’s an archivist?” and “what does an archivist do?” These are questions a lot of people could ask because it’s not a common job title, and archivists don’t do a very good job of promoting themselves. They are usually the quiet type. An archivist is someone who maintains and an archive. Ok, great, but what…