This year in Orlando was my first experience with the ALA Annual conference and as I reflect upon it, I came away proud to be pursuing the library profession. 
What made me proud was the intentional attention to increasing diversity, and all the efforts of inclusion. There was a blood drive and a vigil in response to the Pulse nightclub…
ALA Conference 2016 Orlando The meeting point It’s a big conference. With nearly 60,000 members, the American Library Association is the biggest collective of librarians and information professionals in the world, so naturally its gatherings get big. Many thousands of members attend the annual conference. You can spend almost a week there and never spot the classmate or colleague you…
SJSU SLIS ALASC and SLISConnect hosted a tour of the Seattle Public Library Central Branch this January. The event held during the ALA Midwinter Conference. The event began with a coffee hour at Seattle's Best Coffee. Â The library tour was led by SLIS alumni Sarah Scott. (Click thumbnails to enlarge)
by Mira Geffner This week, I was part of a lucky group of students from the SJSU School of Library & Information Science. The staff of the Mountain View Mobile Library was generous enough to show us their vehicle, inside and out, and spend a couple of hours showing us all the back-of-house organization that makes it go. This vehicle…
In March 2011, ALASC held a tour of the Berkeley C. V. Starr East Asian Library. The tour was led by library Executive Manager of Administrative and Editorial Services, Deborah Rudolph. This library is a language specialty, not subject specialty, library. Therefore, materials are primarily in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. Classical Korean manuscripts, Chinese rubbings, and the largest…