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.

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

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.

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

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

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

9:30 - 11:00am
Room 212

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.