Welcome to the SJSU ALASC!

Dr. Virginia Tucker is a highly accomplished and renowned information professional with impressive credentials. She recently received full tenure after teaching at SJSU's iSchool for more than 15 years. Throughout her career, Dr. Tucker has worked as a Physics Librarian, Law Librarian, and an Information Architect at Dialog/Thomson (now ProQuest). She received her MLS from the University of California, Berkeley…

Dr. Sue Alman is an experienced and well learned information scientist with an eye towards the future. Her areas of specialization include management, strategic planning, futures, and blockchain technology. She has been teaching at SJSU full-time since 2012. Before SJSU, Dr. Alman taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh. You can take her course INFO 282:…

  Now recruiting for a Treasurer, Webmaster, Blogging Assistant and Membership Coordinator with the American Library Association Student Chapter (ALASC) at SJSU’s School of Information. 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. You will join a passionate group…

Get to Know your ALASC Events Coordinator, Irene Miller! What inspired you to get into the library field? A lifelong love of books and information; interest in learning more about how people create, access and use information; and an appreciation that library science draws people from a wide variety of fields. Who are your personal heroes? Eleanor Roosevelt Brene Brown…

I work at a local health sciences college library. It occupies a large space (half of the second floor) yet has a smaller physical collection than average. Most students consider the shelves and my desk to be “the library.” The rest of the floor is filled with lots of study space, which students and faculty frequent. It does the students…