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Critical Information Literacy – an asset for modern libraries!

Hello everyone! Melony here, and for this blog post I’d like to share some information about one of my favorite library topics and its growing importance, not only in the field of librarianship, but in our day-to-day interactions with information in everyday life - Critical Information Literacy!   Critical Information Literacy (or CIL for short!) is a big library concept…

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March 21, 2022
Read more about the article Believe in Your Shelf: The ALA Student Chapter Is Looking for Student Leaders
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Believe in Your Shelf: The ALA Student Chapter Is Looking for Student Leaders

Now recruiting for various leadership positions for the 2022-2023 academic school year with the American Library Association Student Chapter (ALASC). This is a great opportunity to gain leadership experience, work on your communication skills, and make a real difference at the iSchool and in the field of information science.  Benefits include: Evidence for your ePortfolio comp’s B, C, D, M,…

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March 16, 2022
Read more about the article Library Beautification: Stories from the Field
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Library Beautification: Stories from the Field

Sprucing Up the Academy If you’re looking for a sign to decorate your library walls–here it is! By decorating its walls, you can change your library’s environment and how patrons interact with your library. The pictures shown here are of wall decorations intended to make their respective libraries more lively, engaging, and motivating spaces for students. There are two libraries…

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March 7, 2022
Read more about the article Student Conferences: Giving New Life to Beloved School Projects
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Student Conferences: Giving New Life to Beloved School Projects

Does that classmate’s super cool project about cosplaying information communities still live rent-free in your mind? Oh! How about that other student’s proposal for a library escape room to promote information literacy? You loved that one. It’s just a shame that most of those student projects just get shuffled into an e-Portfolio and forgotten about. Other student projects, however, are…

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February 14, 2022
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External Library Experience Opportunties

"Road Sign Street" image from Pixabay. Greetings iSchool Scholars, this is Melony del Real! Welcome to this collaborative post that explores the many professional experience opportunities that we, at ALASC, would highly recommend pursuing while studying for your MLIS or MARA at SJSU. Gaining practical experience in a work environment is not only helpful for your resume/CV but can be used…

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February 8, 2022
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