Spring 2024 Newsletter
Library and Information Science (LIS) Department,
a founding iSchools member
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Chair's Note
2023/2024 has been a banner school year for LIS, a founding iSchools member.
We are now happy to share this 2023/2024 highlight reel in newsletter form, with students, alumni, and LIS friends and colleagues worldwide. And, please take a moment to view a selection of LIS faculty research accomplishments this year.
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Library and Information Science Department Welcomes New Faculty |
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The LIS Department is pleased to welcome three scholars who will join the facutly: Denise Agosto and Alex Jiahong Lu (starting Fall, 2024), and Avriel Epps (starting Fall 2025 after a one-year post-doctoral fellowship).
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Vivek Singh Wins the Best Paper Award from IEEE Intelligent Systems |
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Marie Radford Awarded the Rutgers–New Brunswick Chancellor Award for Excellence in Mentoring |
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The award honors Marie Radford’s exceptional contributions toward mentoring and advancing the next generation of scholars.
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Charles Senteio Named the Recipient of the 2023 Public Good Pinnacle Award |
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The award recognizes outstanding collaborators that have demonstrated extraordinary achievement and sustained commitment to promoting and practicing diversity, inclusion, equity, and access within the university and in partnership with the community.
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Schoen Scholars Research Fellows Present their work at the New Jersey Association of School Librarians |
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Projects created by seven Master of Information students and graduates, who are recipients of the Beverly E. Schoen Research Fellowship, were presented at the New Jersey Association of School Librarians Conference in Atlantic City in December.
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Nicholas Belkin Named the First Recipient of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Fellow Award | |
ASIS&T has named Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Science Nicholas Belkin its inaugural ASIS&T Fellow. The Award recognizes individuals who have made substantial and sustained contributions to ASIS&T and the broader field of Information Science.
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LIS Symposium
The symposium “Rethinking the Future: People-Centered Information and Communication Practices” addressed the ways transformative, people-centered research methods can help foster and promote social change and rethink research in local communities. It aimed to develop opportunities for further collaborative interdisciplinary work around engaged research addressing re-envisioning and building information and communication infrastructure.
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Rutgers International Children's Book Day Celebration
The annual event, organized by Marc Aronson, featured nearly two dozen presenters live and virtually and showcased the new and growing international children’s book collection housed at Alexander Library.
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RUCyberCon 2024
The first RUCyberCon2024 aimed to create an unparalleled opportunity for Information Technology and Informatics students to increase their cybersecurity knowledge by networking with experts in the field.
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Libraries & Information Institutions in the Digital Age Conference
You are warmly invited to submit your work for presentation at the LIDA (Libraries & Information Institutions in the Digital Age) biennial international conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 19-21, 2025. The conference theme is Navigating Disruptive Times: Embracing Uncertainty, Ensuring Credibility. We welcome the submission of papers, panels, workshops, and posters that address critical and theoretical examinations of the theme, report current research and evidence-based approaches, and present innovative approaches from the field and practitioner applications and perspectives.
Submission of proposals (extended abstracts): October 1, 2024
Conference Co-Directors: Marie L. Radford, Ph.D., SC&I, Rutgers Univ., USA, Lilia Pavlovsky, Ph.D., SC&I, Rutgers Univ., USA, Drahomira Cupar, Ph.D., Dept. of Information Sciences, Univ. of Zadar, Croatia, Sanjica Faletar, Ph.D., Dept. of Information Sciences, Univ. of Osijek, Croatia
For more information, email: lida@unizd.hr
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Best Wishes to Nina Wacholder
After a long and distinguished career in her field, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science Nina Wacholder will retire from the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information effective June 30, 2024, the official end of the 2023-2024 academic year.
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In August 2024, a group of Master of Information (MI) students will travel to England, for a graduate summer session class “British Collections and Archives” to learn about collection curation, preservation, and management as they are embedded in various institutional contexts. The hybrid course, taught by Marie L. Radford and Kay Cassell, features nine days on the ground at the beautiful campus of Wroxton College, a historic landmark that is now a university campus, owned by Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey. | |
The course offers historical perspectives and contemporary practices that students learn from site visits and lectures from leading British experts and scholars. The hybrid class brings together history and culture of the United Kingdom through the understanding of libraries, archives, and hands-on experiences with artifacts that constitute that history. Students tour libraries and archives in London and surrounding areas, including the British Library, the National Archives, the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University, the Shakespeare Center at Stratford-upon-Avon, Bletchley Park, and more. | |
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"Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown."
-Anthony Bourdain
As an elective feature of Marc Aronson’s special topics course “International K-12 Books,” MI students attended the Children’s Bookfair in Bologna, Italy. This annual event (held this year, April 8-12) brings together attendees from over 100 countries worldwide.
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The event featured over 1,000 exhibitors and created opportunities for writers, illustrators, authors, publishers, librarians, and many others whose interests focus on children’s books to share ideas and explore new developments in the field. The trip was intense, with long days filled with rich experiences, learning opportunities, and engagement with subject experts from all over the world.
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Additional Chair Comments
We are especially proud of a group of our IT&I undergraduate students who have formed and launched a new student-led organization called TechUnity. The TechUnity group's mission is to empower and unite students from under-represented and minoritized groups in the technology and computing fields.
Finally, this year's Colloquium speaker series lineup and SCARLA post-graduate event featured topics ranging from cataloging to social media platform studies to mis- and disinformation, to career pathways in the first five year. Learn more about our speakers on our website.
Rebecca Reynolds, Chair, Associate Professor, LIS Dept.
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