Students, Faculty, and Alumni Team Up for a DLIS-Led University Presentation

What began as a presentation of a collaborative teaching of GIS systems evolved into a group discussion of DLIS-led projects and opportunities offered through the University. This student and faculty idea-sharing workshop evolved into an engaged discussion amongst information professionals interested in speaking about links between the GIS projects and the DLIS Academic Service-Learning (AS/L) projects. In the hopes of establishing further opportunities for student development through AS/L, the group conversed lightly over topics such as creating interactive historical information objects and archival image representations using the GIS software.

Representatives of other university departments attended the DLIS-led event, including the University Archives, the Center for Teaching and Learning, Instructional Design, and the University Libraries. To view images of the event and find out more about the topics covered in the workshop, please visit a related post at the DLIS Blog.

DLIS Student Wins University Essay Contest

Congratulations to Danielle Manri, a DLIS student, for her prize-winning Academic Service-Learning essay!

 

 

St. John’s University offers both undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to compete in an essay contest regarding the participation in the University’s Academic Service-Learning Program. The essay contest, established in 1998, is held annually in the spring. Participants compete for a cash prize and a chance to have their essay published as a feature on the Academic Service-Learning Website.

 The essay is the student’s response to the fulfillment of the University’s Vincentian mission to search out the causes of poverty and social injustice to encourage adaptable, effective and concrete solutions through community service that directly relates to the student’s current coursework.

DLIS Student Writes Guest Piece for Museum Blog

Liza Young (MLS’15)

Liza Young (MLS’15) undertook a research opportunity while working with the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn this summer. Liza began working with the museum for an Academic Service-Learning project for Dr. Angel’s Museum Informatics course. As a result of this project, Liza has been extended an open invitation to participate in future projects as wells as continuing guest blog posts for the Museum by the Creative Director, Joanna Ebenstein.

Joanna Ebenstein, Creative Director of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, founded the museum and library in 2008. The Morbid Anatomy Museum describes itself as, “a non-profit institution dedicated to the celebration and exhibition of artifacts, histories and ideas which fall between the cracks of high and low culture, death and beauty, and disciplinary divides.” The museum offers unique temporary exhibits and highly popular lecture series and workshops. It also boasts of a substantial research library containing a wide array of peculiar materials.

Spring Symposium 2014: Digital Humanities

Dr. Christine Angel briefly introduced her students that have been working with the Academic Service Learning component of this degree program since its inception a few years ago. She explains that these projects have the potential to become full-time paid positions for these students upon graduation from this program.

A panel of four DLIS students sat before an audience to speak about their involvement with current academic service learning projects.

Spend Spring Break in Jamaica with Dr. Shari Lee

Learn about the DLIS Cultural Immersion: Jamaica Program!

When: Thursday, October 3^rd 2013

Where: TBA

Time: 5:00 PM