All students are welcome to vote for their ALASC board officers for next school year. The poll can be found here: 2016-2017 Board Officers Voting Best of luck to everyone as this semester comes to a close in the next few weeks and congrats to those who are graduating!
Thank you to everyone who participated in ALASC’s t-shirt design contest! We had over 300 iSchool students vote on four finalists. Congratulations to winner of the $100 amazon.com gift card, Chris Lee, whose “Carpe Librum” design was selected as the favorite, and to student voter Tamara Molloy, who won a free t-shirt in our drawing. Chris, pictured with his family, is…
If you're debating whether to do an E-port or Thesis we have a great event on March 18 @ 6pm PST to give curious students insight and perspective. Speakers include Angela Gates (ALASC Treasurer) who is doing the thesis project, and Kelley (Kay) Wantuch who recently completed her E-port. Bring your questions and join us here: bit.ly/1O23wUb (Links to an external site.). ALSO in MARCH…
By Elijah Enos Abstract This paper provides an overview of the challenges faced by information designers attempting to process instances of polysemy in natural language, as well as an overview of proposed solutions. Polysemy is the linguistic phenomenon in which one word will have more than one meaning. This creates a challenge for users of search engines and…
Hello everyone, This past week we had hosted two great discussions. If you missed them, don't worry the links below are to the recordings. Thank you to Jody Gray and members of the iSchool Student Groups for speaking with us. Listen here for a discussion with Jody Gray, the Director for ALA's Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services. Listen…