Need a bright, motivated MSI student?
The School of Information is actively soliciting host organizations for Alternative Spring Break. Last year more than 100 SI master’s degree students spent the week of spring break working at over 50 nonprofit, cultural, educational, and government organizations in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Washington, D.C. They worked on information-management service projects for institutions like the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, the Huffington Post, the Cabrini-Connections Tutor/Mentor Connection, the United Nations, and the Detroit Public Library. Projects included archiving, cataloging, research, web development, digitizing, curating, creating online tutorials, and database development. If your organization, or one you know, could use a dedicated, capable — and best of all, free — graduate student (or two or three!) for a week in March, please contact Kelly Kowatch at kkowatch@umich.edu. Alternative Spring Break host sites must be: • A public sector organization (non-profit, government, educa
