Cover Art for Invisible: À Perte de Vue by Claire Hand In 2013, I created the cover art for and edited my husband’s contemporary spy novel, Invisible: À Perte de Vue. The book is available in the UNLV Wiener-Rogers Law Library's popular collection, and an excerpt can be viewed at Harvard.com. …
A Bibliophile’s Second Home by Alyssa Erichsen Innumerable ideas meet and reside here. Bits and parts of them sit on shelves, pieces that writers deemed fit to extract from their heads and commit to a page. These ideas, some vastly at odds with each other, are yet comfortable side-by-side upon their perches. This vast rank and file is not…
Welcome to the Summer issue of ALASC’s newsletter, the SLIS Descriptor! This special issue is devoted to a sampling of the creativity in our community (not including my photo editing skills, so please excuse certain headshots). This time around, we have about twice as many contributors with their short stories, illustrations, poems, collage/photomontage, hand-crafted fashion, photography, and sculpture. Two of…
Open to all: Please join our July SJSU ALASC meeting, Wednesday, July 16, 6:00p.m., PST. AGENDA ITEMS 1) Welcome Christina Matekel! 2) Board officers’ updates. 3) ALA’s Libraries Build Communities. 4) Canvas site. 5) Additional items. Join us here to participate: https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=2011274&password=D.BD192CD80069307D3104D61D410E88 Individuals requiring real-time captioning or other accommodations should contact Sue Alman/iSchool (http://slisapps.sjsu.edu/email/email.php?fname=Sue&lname=Alman) as soon as possible.
Did you know? MLS students qualify for savings on joint memberships! Twenty-eight Chapters (state library associations) allow students to join them and ALA for one low price of $35, from now through August 31, 2014. To apply for joint student ALA and CLA membership online, complete the online form through ALA's secure database here. NOTE: Sept. 1-Aug. 31, 2015, joint student…