Faculty Voices: Lili Luo, PhD, Associate Professor What were you doing before you joined SJSU’s School of Information? I joined SJSU after I received my PhD in Information and Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007. Prior to that, I worked briefly at Peking University Library in China. I got my Masters of…
Scouting for Tech: My Year with the Girl Scouts at the Library by Stephanie Piccino Admit it: You do not think “tech” when you think “Girl Scouts”. You think of camping, crafts, and, of course, cookies. But these are not your mom’s Girl Scouts. They are not even mine. Today, Girl Scouts are encouraged to explore the world of…
Who Needs a DAM Librarian? Part I: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are by Deborah Fanslow First published as the December 2014 feature article in DAM News In Library Science, Not Library Silence, David Diamond proclaimed that the skills of information professionals are sorely needed in the digital asset management (DAM) field. In no uncertain terms, he initiated…
LGBTQ Youth Online Information Communities: The Intersection of Real and Virtual Space When Information Needs Are Also Social Needs by Elanna Erhardt As an “under-aged” minority population that has only recently been given much needed attention in scholarly authorship over the past twenty years, LGBTQ (or queer as an all-inclusive term) youth have information needs and desires peculiar to…
Welcome to the Spring issue of ALASC’s newsletter, the iSchool Descriptor! This issue is another mix of student and faculty voices. You will read a book review about the advantages of online collaboration among scientists, including information scientists. You will learn from a research paper covering LGBTQ youth online information communities. You will consider a different perspective on marketing one’s…