Letter from the Editor
Welcome to the last issue of the Silverfish for the 2003-2004 school
year. It is also my last issue as Senior Editor. Next year Phoebe Ayers
and John Glover will take over the helm of the Silverfish, as Senior
Editor and Assistant Editor / Senior Copyeditor respectively. Carmine
Rau, who has been an integral part of our staff this year, will continue
to be a part of the Silverfish staff next year as the web editor.
A big thank you goes to all of the Silverfish staff members for their
hard work and dedication in making the Silverfish such a success this
year. Without you, there wouldn’t have been a newsletter! I especially
want to thank Beverly Slabosky for being a patient and thorough web
editor and SJ Alexander for her support as the ALISS liaison. Thanks,
also, to members of the iSchool community for contributing articles,
making suggestions and reading the newsletter.
To
close out the year, ALISS (the Association for Library and Information
Science Students) is hosting the Spring Fling on Friday, June 4 at 5:00
pm in Mary Gates Commons. The theme this year is Lounge Night –
so put on your swanky clothes and your dancing shoes and prepare for
a night of Tom Jones karaoke!! (just kidding) Seriously, though, there
will be free food and booze a’plenty and an evening of merriment
and jollity for all. I look forward to seeing y’all there!
For our last iSchool Program Spotlight of the year, we are focusing
on the Informatics Program. Many Informatics students recently went
through the grueling process of putting together their capstone projects.
We interviewed a number of these students to learn about their capstone
projects, their plans after graduation and to find out their impressions
of the Informatics program as a whole.
Enjoy!
Katy Shaw
Silverfish Senior Editor
Please send any submissions, comments or suggestions to: silverfish_aliss@yahoo.com.
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Spotlight on Informatics
Why Informatics?
An Overview of the iSchool’s Bachelor of Science in Informatics
Program
by Dyan Smith Chandler
Student Interviews:
Student Spotlight:: Jeremy Hyland
Student Spotlight: Matthew Nevitt
Student Spotlight: Meredith Skeels
with interviewer Phoebe Ayers
Student Spotlight: Robin Sodeman
Student Spotlight: Brandon Tengan
For Book Lovers
Judging A Book By Its Cover
by Jenine Lillian
Around the iSchool
The iSchool’s Diversity Workshop: A
Student’s Perspective
by Joshua Daniel Franklin
Time to Defrag and Unplug:
A Synopsis of the Public Forum on Information and the Quality of Life
by Blythe Summers
Free Laptops: Taking Advantage of iSchool Technology
by Jason Fetty
From the Komissar's Desk...
by Tom Dobrowolsky
Art Show Breathes Life into Sterile Halls
by John Glover
Outside the iSchool
My Volunteer Experience at the Youth Services
Center Library
by Cheri
Streby
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