Put the whole world online and freedom and equality are bound to rise, right? Not necessarily. While access to information is key, access alone isn’t enough to ensure progress around the world. People also need the social and economic...
When Scott Barker walks the UW campus, he’ll often hear students chatting, and it amazes him how often he hears one word in particular. That buzzword: Informatics. Barker, who has chaired the iSchool’s undergraduate program since...
Sarah Carnes knows how utterly frustrating it can be to apply for insurance through a health-care exchange. Carnes, a Master of Library and Information Science student living in the Boston area, wanted to throw her computer out the...
Kids stomp and shimmy as iSchool Professor Michelle Martin starts them off with a song. They build sandcastles, make Japanese fish prints, and squeal with delight as they wrangle blobs of slime larger than their heads. This is not your...
A popular podcast by Joe Janes of the University of Washington Information School is now a book. “Documents that Changed the Way We Live” is being published this month by Rowman & Littlefield. Since 2012 Janes,...
Stories are powerful. Victims of sexual assault, domestic violence and human trafficking often find their voices silenced, their ability to tell their own story taken from them. A group of students from the iSchool have partnered...
The UW Information School rolled out its redesigned website on Monday, Aug. 21. The new-look website uses updated colors and typefaces that align with those used on the main UW site. It features a simplified navigation structure and a tool that gives users the option to customize certain aspects of the...
Savannah Sessions grew up in Maine and gets excited about the human side of mining in her state. For her MLIS Directed Fieldwork, Sessions is working with the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum (MMGM) to shed light on the sacrifices and risks often experienced by miners, many of whom were...
It was a dream internship that combined two passions: law and baseball. Karen Sánchez, an MLIS online student, is spending the summer working for the Law Library of Congress to help it prepare for a June 2018 Baseball Americana exhibit – a look at how the great American pastime has spread...
As a follow-up to the successful publishing of his new book, "Documents That Changed the Way We Live," Associate Professor Joe Janes was asked to think about the future of documents for Publishers Weekly, a weekly news magazine focused on the international book publishing business. In his...
Laura Schildkraut wants students in her Gender and Information Technology class to know two things about the workplace: You are empowered to take control of your career, and professional relationships and interactions are complicated. “I want to show the women in the class that this is a great...
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