On Friday, April 26, 2024, our ALASC Events team hosted a captivating evening of poetry, featuring a speaker lineup of talented MLIS students followed by an open mic session. Poems shared tapped into themes of identity, time, love, and daily life. Each poem, rich with personal insight, offered attendees an immersive experience. This event was more than just a…
In Pasadena, California, The Caltech Library, under the stewardship of University Librarian Kara Whatley, is pioneering a transformative journey towards creating a more accessible and equitable environment for its diverse community of learners and researchers. This journey encompasses a range of innovative initiatives, from enhancing physical spaces with shush booths to strategic partnerships with students aimed at improving service…
Monday, March 25, 2024, ALASC marked a significant milestone - 30 years of serving as a vibrant student organization at SJSU. To commemorate this special anniversary, ALASC’s Events team members Missy McCollum, Cat Tang, and Connor Dandridge hosted the bi-annual, “Connect Over Coffee.” We were lucky enough to have a distinguished panel of SJSU alumni librarians, including: Jenn…
Did You Miss Trivia Night? On Tuesday March 12, Cat Tang and Connor Dandridge, of the Events Team, hosted ALASC’s 2024 Spring Trivia night with the theme, book to media adaptations! Categories consisted of kids, teens, oldies and goodies, and hot off the press, featuring questions from popular books to movies such as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Twilight series, Dracula,…
Alt text: A winding dirt path curves through colorful fall foliage of red and gold. You might have previously seen an image like the one above, accompanied by a short text description. So, what is alt text and why should we use it? Alt text is short for “alternative text”, which is text that accompanies an image to aid…