Activist Librarianship and the Ethics of Library Neutrality

In defense of user rights, librarians have sometimes been labeled radical militants, but more typically they adhere to the principles of nonjudgmental service, balanced collections, and political neutrality. Discussing some of the perennial debates that arise will be Jenna Freedman, Coordinator of Reference and Zine Librarian at Barnard, founder of Radical Reference, and Library Journal "Mover & Shaker; " and Valerie Bell, Assistant Director, Ocean County Library, ALA Councilor at Large.

7:00 -9:00pm
Room 212, SC&I Building

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

 SC&I BuildingRoom 212

College Avenue Campus, New Brunswick

Jenna Freedman

http://jenna.openflows.com/

Jenna Freedman is the Coordinator of Reference Services and Zine Librarian
at Barnard College in NYC and a member of Radical Reference, a collectiveof library workers that meets the research needs of activists and
independent journalists. She is the 2007 winner of the Elizabeth Futas
Catalyst for Change Award, and her most recent publication is an essay in
the Autumn 2009 issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

Valerie Bell

The next RASL (Rutgers Association of School Librarians) meeting of this year will be held on Wednesday, November 11 at 5:30 p.m. in the SC&I Faculty Lounge on the 3rd floor in 4 Huntington Street.

The following speakers will be presenting at this meeting:

Pat Massey - President of NJASL

Hilda Weisburg - NJASL's representative to AASL and delegate to Affiliate Assembly Judy Mansbach - NJLA Vice Chair of Member Services Carol Phillips - a past-president of NJLA.

Topic coverage will include the purpose and goals of each organization, conferences, student and professional membership, as well as each organization’s influence on progress and change in the LIS and school media field.

Don’t forget if you are an online student our webmaster will be transcribing the discussion via our Meebo chat which can be accessed at http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~rasl/chat.html.

Also, a reminder that Colloquium (Activist Librarianship and the Ethics of Library Neutrality) will follow from 7 to 9 p.m. in Room 212.

All are welcome to the RASL meeting and pizza will be served! Please feel free to view the RASL website at http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~rasl/, where you will find information about RASL, professional organizations, certification, previous meeting minutes and more.

Co-presidents: Rosemary Sherry and Adriane Gash

Secretary: Dawn Hoesterey

Webmaster: Rachel Bavolar

Faculty Advisors: Dr. Todd and Dr. Gordon

DSA Research Chat

 November 6, 2009

1:30pm at the Huntington House

 Students can come share research ideas, brainstorm topics for conference submissions or practice public presentations and get valuable feedback.

Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Resistance 2.0:   Mobilizing Social Capital Through Personal Networks in Support of Political Movements

Dr. Saman Talib

2007 Graduate of SC&I Ph.D. Program and Associate Professor, School of Media and Communication, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan

Tuesday, November 17

6:10 to 7:30 p.m.

SC&I Building Faculty Lounge - Room 323

November 4, 2007 was witness to a very unusual sight in Pakistan: hundreds of students marching in a political protest. The protest was launched at a small, elite university called Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and the students were protesting the arrest of faculty members in the aftermath of the Emergency declared in Pakistan the previous day. This sight of students protesting was to become increasingly familiar as the weeks of Emergency dragged on.

What makes this time particularly interesting was the media blackout imposed by the government during the Emergency. An additional source of complication was the strong response of the military government to all forms of dissent during this time. So the students were faced with many challenges: lack of mass media to approach, need for anonymity, and the need to organize and evolve rapidly.  This left these students with no other means to organize but through social networks. The most logical channel of organization turned out to be the personal new communication technologies these students had access to, particularly the World Wide Web – in the form of emails, a blog, social networking sites including YouTube – and their cell phones. 

This talk will pay special attention to the participation and leadership of women in this movement. This is an important perspective because, in a gender segregated society such as Pakistan, the visibility of females was a strong visual representation of the depth of resistance felt by the young citizens of the country.  The talk will consider how women were encouraged and challenged in the formation of this movement—especially how female participation and leadership was facilitated by the virtual nature of the movement.

Sponsored by the SC&I Ph.D. Program, the Rutgers Journalism Resources Institute, the Rutgers Center for Media Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers.

• Department of Communication: 10:00am - Noon in the Faculty Lounge
• Department of Journalism and Media Studies:  10:00am - 1:00pm in Room 114
• Department of Library and Information Science:  9:30 - 11:30am in the Huntington House Conference Room

Meetings of Chairs and Directors are held on the third Wednesday of each month from 1:00 - 2:30pm in the Faculty Lounge.

Rutgers University Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) presents a

Panel on Campus Media 

Editors of campus publications and the managers of campus broadcast facilities, as well as students, faculty, and administrators, will be present.  The goal is for university community to give feedback to the media.

November 18 - 7:00pm
Graduate Student Lounge of the Rutgers Student Center

Beta Phi Mu, International Library and Information Studies Honor Society, Omicron Chapter

Presents its 2009 Fall Lecture

“Building the Hyperlinked Library”

By Michael Stephens, Ph.D

.
Thursday, November 19, 2009

7:00 PM Reception, followed by Lecture at 7:30

Contacts:  Melissa Hofmann: mhofmann@rider.edu, Marie Radford: mradford@rutgers.edu

Michael Stephens, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University in Illinois.  He spent over fifteen years working in public libraries while developing a passion for technology and the human connections it affords. His recent publications include two ALA Library Technology Reports on Web 2.0, the monthly column "The Transparent Library" with Michael Casey in Library Journal, and other articles about emerging trends and tech. Michael also maintains the popular blog Tame the Web.  He received an IMLS doctoral fellowship at the University of North Texas, was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker, and received the 2009 Association of Library & Information Science Educators Faculty Innovation Award as well as a 2009 University of North Texas Rising Star Alumni Award. He is the 2009 CAVAL Visiting Scholar, researching the effect of Learning 2.0 programs in Australian libraries.Michael speaks nationally and internationally on libraries, technology, and innovation. He is fascinated by library buildings and virtual spaces that center around users, content, digital creation and encouraging the heart.

This is a free event and all are welcome to attend!  Plan to arrive early, as we are expecting a large turnout. Visitors may park for free in the non-metered spaces of the College Avenue Parking Deck. Regular parking restrictions apply to faculty, staff and students. 

  This year’s lecture is sponsored by:

·         Rutgers University Libraries

·         Department of Library and Information Science, School of Communication and Information

·         Rutgers University School of Communication and Information Alumni  Association

·         New Jersey Center for the Book

11:00am - Noon
Faculty Lounge

Featured speaker:  Dr. Larry Dennis, Dean of Florida State University's College of Communication and Information

10:00am - Noon, at the Scholarly Communication Center, 4th floor of Alexander Library

• Department of Communication: 10:00am - Noon in the Faculty Lounge
• Department of Journalism and Media Studies:  10:00am - 1:00pm in Room 114
• Department of Library and Information Science:  9:30 - 11:30am in the Huntington House Conference Room

Meetings of Chairs and Directors are held on the third Wednesday of each month from 1:00 - 2:30pm in the Faculty Lounge.

DSA Research Chat

 November 6, 2009

1:30pm at the Huntington House

 Students can come share research ideas, brainstorm topics for conference submissions or practice public presentations and get valuable feedback.

• Department of Communication: 10:00am - Noon in the Huntington House Conference Room
• Department of Journalism and Media Studies:  10:00am - 1:00pm in Room 114
• Department of Library and Information Science:  9:30 - 11:30am in the Faculty Lounge

Meetings of Chairs and Directors are held on the third Wednesday of each month from 1:00 - 2:30pm in the Faculty Lounge.

School of Communication and Information Colloquium

Speaker and Topic TBA

10:00am to Noon
Scholarly Communication Center, Alexander Library

SC&I Research Colloquiums

10 to Noon

School of Communication and Information Colloquium

Speaker and Topic TBA

10:00am to Noon
Scholarly Communication Center, Alexander Library

SC&I Research Colloquiums

10 to Noon

• Department of Communication: 10:00am - Noon in the Huntington House Conference Room
• Department of Journalism and Media Studies:  10:00am - 1:00pm in Room 114
• Department of Library and Information Science:  9:30 - 11:30am in the Faculty Lounge

Meetings of Chairs and Directors are held on the third Wednesday of each month from 1:00 - 2:30pm in the Faculty Lounge.

School of Communication and Information Colloquium

Speaker and Topic TBA

10:00am to Noon
Scholarly Communication Center, Alexander Library

SC&I Research Colloquiums

10 to Noon

Ph.D. Recruitment Day

This is for invited students who have been admitted to the school’s doctoral program.  

The events will include a special session honoring

Linda Lederman

who was named this year by the Rutgers Graduate School - New Brunswick as the outstanding Ph.D. Alum in the Social Sciences.  

More details to follow.

School of Communication and Information Colloquium

Speaker and Topic TBA

10:00am to Noon
Scholarly Communication Center, Alexander Library

SC&I Research Colloquiums

10 to Noon

Faculty meetings of the departments are held on the third Wednesday of each month in the morning.  For March:

• Department of Communication: 10:00am - Noon in the Huntington House Conference Room
• Department of Journalism and Media Studies:  10:00am - 1:00pm in Room 114
• Department of Library and Information Science:  9:30 - 11:30am in the Faculty Lounge

Meetings of Chairs and Directors are held on the third Wednesday of each month from 1:00 - 2:30pm in the Faculty Lounge.

School of Communication and Information Colloquium

Speaker and Topic TBA

10:00am to Noon
Scholarly Communication Center, Alexander Library

SC&I Research Colloquiums

10 to Noon

School of Communication and Information Colloquium

Speaker and Topic TBA

10:00am to Noon
Scholarly Communication Center, Alexander Library

SC&I Research Colloquiums

10 to Noon

• Department of Communication: 10:00am - Noon in the Huntington House Conference Room
• Department of Journalism and Media Studies:  10:00am - 1:00pm in Room 114
• Department of Library and Information Science:  9:30 - 11:30am in the Faculty Lounge

Meetings of Chairs and Directors are held on the third Wednesday of each month from 1:00 - 2:30pm in the Faculty Lounge.

9:30 - 11:00am
Room 212

• Department of Communication: 10:00am - Noon in the Huntington House Conference Room
• Department of Journalism and Media Studies:  10:00am - 1:00pm in Room 114
• Department of Library and Information Science:  9:30 - 11:30am in the Faculty Lounge

Meetings of Chairs and Directors are held on the third Wednesday of each month from 1:00 - 2:30pm in the Faculty Lounge.

The School of Communication and Information Graduation ceremony will be held at 7:00pm at the Rutgers Athletic Center, followed by a reception.  All undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students who are graduating should plan to participate and invite friends and relatives.  Tickets for guests are unlimited.

University Commencement will be held at 1:00pm in Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue Campus.  SC&I undergraduate and masters programs will be represented by representative students; all PhD students are welcome to attend.

Rutgers' School of Communication and Information is proud to be the host of the 23rd annual Organizational Communication Mini-Conference (OCMC) on October 8 - 10, 2010.  This event is hosted by different institutions each year and brings together faculty and graduate students from many universities to provide feedback on graduate students' research projects, theses, and dissertations.  The 2009 OCMC was hosted by Northwestern University and the 2008 event by Purdue.

Details on the October 2010 Organizational Communication Mini-Conference will be posted as they become available.