Library and information science

At the time, it was a bigger operation and something like an information hub with educational tools about this very issue, the ballooning of the prison population, and also published and distributed a resource directory to folks in prison.

with listings of organizations that provide direct services and we still publish this directory we update it every year and we work really closely with the Berkeley Prison Literature Project to help distribute it and you know this work was in many ways more library science than linguistics but I think there are some overlaps when you're thinking about questions like taxonomy yes You know, should we organize the listings by geography or by subject area?

Oh, totally.

The person that I spoke to on the interview just before this, Lauren Collister, she worked in library science.

And I know other linguists who have worked in library science.

And yeah, it's all taxonomy.

It's where does stuff go and how do you organize it? And looking at the words to figure out how to make sense of a giant pile of data or information.

It is.

The book is titled Neo-Documentation and the End of Information by Ronald E.

Day.

A brilliant scholar.

absolutely.

Absolutely.

Like his first book, The Modern Invention of Information, Discourse, History, and Power, was published in 2001 by the Southern Illinois University Press.

A foundational text.

Correcto, correcto.

Incluso cuando yo entré a Library Science, porque empieza uno por ahí, para el, es el, el Library Science.

¿Aquí o en qué área?

Eh, aquí en el, la Universidad de Antioquia.

O en español tiene nombre también.

Eh, es, es...

O es Library Science.

Sí, Escuela de Bibliotecología, pero ya la cambiaron a Archivística y la, la han ido evolucionando.

I graduated in 2025, and I, through, you know, grace of the universe and everything just fell together perfectly, I landed a job as an assistant professor at Sam Houston State University within the same department that I got my doctoral degree with.

So, uh, I am now an assistant professor for the Library Science and Technology department.

I support both the Instructional Systems Design and Technology programs and the Library Science program.

So I help, uh, current educators, uh, wi- who are interested in pursuing school librarianship as a profession.

Um, and then I also help, uh, people who want, or students who wanna pursue instructional design as a profession.

And I, I just, honestly, I couldn't ask for anything better.

It's been so great.

I get to do research, I get to teach, I get to, you know, promote the amazingness of [chuckles] library science and instructional design, and, you know, get to be creative with how I do that.