What do iProfessionals Do?
Syracuse alumnus Michael Eisenberg receives top award from ALISE
Michael Eisenberg G’86, dean emeritus of the University of Washington Information School, received the 2009 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Award for Professional Contribution. The ALISE Award is given to individuals who have advanced library and information science education through leadership roles, scholarly contributions, and sustained support of LIS educational initiatives. He will be recognized at the 2009 ALISE Conference in Denver in January.
Eisenberg, a graduate of the Ph.D. in information transfer program at Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool), began working at the school in 1977 as an adjunct faculty member and then later as coordinator of the school media and field work programs. He became an assistant professor in 1982 and worked his way through the tenure track to full professor in 11 years.
While employed at the iSchool, Eisenberg led the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse, an online digital library of education research and information that provides comprehensive Internet-based bibliographic and full-text databases of education research and information, and then later founded the Information Institute of Syracuse, which included the award-winning AskERIC project.
I Create Well-Designed Products
Susanne (Eklund) Brokaw is a senior user interface designer at Google and a graduate of UC Berkeley School of Information.
In my current role I design features and products for Google commerce applications. I work closely with usability analysts, product managers, and engineers to bring a product from concept to reality. I also help to coordinate the work done by other designers so that our end product feels cohesive and comfortable. My job role requires both creative and analytic thinking, both big-picture design and pixel-level design. It's a fun ride.
I Provide Information
University of Illinois alumnus Tom Priestly "wanted to be Indiana Jones before there was an Indiana Jones, traveling down the Amazon and discovering things." While he hasn’t gotten his chance to visit the Amazon (yet) he has acted on his passion of discovery—completing his library and information science degree in 2006.
Shortly after graduation, Priestley began working for Motorola as a Program Manager in Staff Development where he is responsible for making sure the information needs of thousands of employees are met, from ensuring people have the training they need to perform their jobs well to creating a structure around which information is collected, stored, and made available.