Remembering Allyson Carlye’s lifelong work as a cataloger through her 2010 appearance in the iSchool’s “Librarians Do Gaga” video.
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April 17, 2020 at 2:51 pm
Allyson: dear, dear Allyson.
Allyson was one of the first faculty I met when I joined the iSchool in 1999. She took me to a favorite Thai place for my interview dinner. Since back then I was new to the “I” word, she and Raya ran a small seminar for me: we read Buckland together, discussed human information behavior, and the nuances of knowledge organization. Allyson: answering my questions, patiently, deeply, and with subtle humor. When I taught INFO 300 to our first cohort of Informatics majors the following year, I included a project on user categorization of works modeled after Allyson’s published research on Dicken’s "A Christmas Carol." This quarter I am teaching INFO 200 to our newest Informatics majors and minors; they, too, are experiencing a variation of Allyson’s research activities, this time by developing a categorization scheme for objects from a kitchen “junk” drawer. I feel Allyson on my shoulder when I assign these activities: her guiding patience, her curiosity, her attention to student needs, her desire for harmony. She shall be missed—for a long, long time.
Allyson was one of the first faculty I met when I joined the iSchool in 1999. She took me to a favorite Thai place for my interview dinner. Since back then I was new to the “I” word, she and Raya ran a small seminar for me: we read Buckland together, discussed human information behavior, and the nuances of knowledge organization. Allyson: answering my questions, patiently, deeply, and with subtle humor. When I taught INFO 300 to our first cohort of Informatics majors the following year, I included a project on user categorization of works modeled after Allyson’s published research on Dicken’s "A Christmas Carol." This quarter I am teaching INFO 200 to our newest Informatics majors and minors; they, too, are experiencing a variation of Allyson’s research activities, this time by developing a categorization scheme for objects from a kitchen “junk” drawer. I feel Allyson on my shoulder when I assign these activities: her guiding patience, her curiosity, her attention to student needs, her desire for harmony. She shall be missed—for a long, long time.