This feels like it could be the most revolutionary moment in U.S. campaign history: Candidates are robbed of the typical ways for connecting with supporters and changing the hearts and minds of the voting public. The coronavirus has ground the presidential campaigns of Joe Biden and Donald Trump to a near halt. Public rallies aren’t… Read the full article…
Sayward Schoonmaker and Rachel Ivy Clarke won the 2018 ASIS&T Best Paper Proposal Award for their paper, “The Critical Catalog: Giving Voice to Diverse Library Materials through Provocative Design.” Schoonmaker and Clarke also won the 2020 Jesse H. Shera Award for their article, “Metadata for Diversity: Identification and Implications of Political Access Points for Diverse Library Resources.”… Read the full article…
Shelter-in-place orders have changed, postponed, and cancelled plans worldwide. These circumstances can be a particularly challenging time for students looking for jobs and internships. Instead of worrying about a gap in your resume, now’s the perfect time to pursue a certification. We asked iSchool faculty to share their best recommendations for certifications, specializations, and courses… Read the full article…
The iSchool Public Libraries Initiative (IPLI) is a research group within the iSchool that focuses on public library research. I was curious about what evidence supports the widespread use of library fines. I was surprised to find that there are few studies that show they are effective at getting patrons to return items on time…. Read the full article…
Courtney Perdiue ‘14 grew up bleeding Orange as a Syracuse University basketball fan. “My grandparents went to Syracuse, and my sister also went to Syracuse – talk about a die-hard fan,” says Perdiue. But while many Syracuse fans bleed Orange, not everyone is able to combine passions for sports, health, and technology into one job…. Read the full article…
In New York, many of us are completing our fourth week of mandatory working at home. We are the lucky ones. We still have a job. Most of us have health care. We have high-speed Internet. Our job does not put us at greater risk for becoming infected with a novel coronavirus. However, all of… Read the full article…
For the past fourteen years, my research has explored how people cope with “liminal” experiences—or how they deal with prolonged uncertainty. Specifically, I focus on how people use information and communication technology (ICT) to build resilience when experiencing long-term disruptions to their routine lives, where resilience is defined as how people bounce back from threat… Read the full article…
The COVID-19 pandemic sent hundreds of millions of students home worldwide. Work from home is now the only option for many. In this crisis, cloud companies suddenly are the backbone of a global virtual learning and collaboration experiment on a scale never previously experienced. While the Internet backbone has long been a lifeline and reached… Read the full article…
Celeste Drumhiller’s professional holy trinity is comprised of being Facebook’s technical recruiter, an iSchool alum, and Napa the Golden Retriever’s social media mom-ager. For Drumhiller ‘14, innovation, a passion for doing what you love, and most importantly, an inherent curiosity for figuring out what you don’t love have helped shape her path to success. The… Read the full article…
“When there is a plethora of technical knowledge, put passion behind it. That’s how you will stand out,” says Aishwarya Rai, a current master’s-degree student who is obtaining her degree in information management at the School of Information Studies. Rai spent her summer in San Jose at Adobe headquarters. She landed her internship job from… Read the full article…