One of the great things about the Faculty of Information is that it houses an amazingly interdisciplinary group of students. We come from all kinds of different academic disciplines and bring a breadth of experiences, knowledge, and interests to our new field of information studies. Our professors like to remind us of this and tell us——especially when they are trying to sell us on the benefits of yet another group project——that we learn most from each other. It just might be true.
This past weekend, the point was driven home for me at the second annual iSchool student conference at Faculty of Information. The Saturday morning session "Seeking and Finding" was particularly great thanks to papers from U of T students Amanda LeClerc (Accessing Inspiration) and Marie-Eve Belanger (Annotation as Scholarly Primitive: Traces of Information Access). The papers crossed the boundaries of art, information studies, and ethnography, too. Not to mention inspiration.
The program is still up. Go see what you missed.
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