Rutgers was a good fit for Josh Rochotte, and SC&I is proud to claim him as a double alumnus. After majoring in Information Technology and Information (ITI) and Psychology, Josh completed a Master of Information (MI) degree in 2018.
SC&I alumna Vanessa Kitzie MLIS '11, Ph.D. '16, has researched the information practices of LGBTQIA+ populations, particularly the kinds of health questions community members have and the ways they navigate around information barriers to find answers. Read more in an article by the University of South Carolina where KItzie is an assistant professor.
According to the Campus Pride Index list, Rutgers University is one of the most LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities in the U.S, earning a 5-star rating. The index, the premier LGBTQ national benchmarking tool for colleges and universities since 2007, is based on eight factors, including LGBTQ policy inclusion, housing, academic life, and student life.
Jill E. Baron MLIS’12 serves as the Librarian for Romance Languages and Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. She also co-directed “Change the Subject” (2019), a 54-minute documentary film about a group of Dartmouth students who challenged anti-immigrant language in the Library of Congress subject headings.
Faculty, students, and alumni from SC&I’s Library and Information Science (LIS) Department will attend the annual New Jersey Librarian Association (NJLA) Conference. The theme for this year’s virtual conference, scheduled for June 3 and 4, is “All In,” with a focus on accessibility, equity, and inclusiveness.
A Digital Imaging Technician at Princeton University Library, Master of Information student Jennifer Cabral-Pierce contributed to “The Charles Rogers Bird Journals Digitization Project,” and then proposed and helped complete the follow-up “Capturing Feathers” exhibition, which presents rare images of birds from collections across the entire university.
Doug Baldwin ’99, MLIS ‘07 was nominated for this prestigious annual award by his colleagues at the Piscataway Public Library, LibraryLinkNJ, Maplewood Memorial Library, and the Gloucester County Library System.
Graduate Students: Fall 2021 pre-registration begins this coming Monday, April 19, 2021, at 9:00 AM and continues through Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Graduate students can use WebReg to register and the Schedule of Classes to review Fall 2021 course offerings. The WebReg system is unavailable for daily maintenance between 2:01 am and 6:29 am; service resumes daily at 6:30 am.
The 2022 U.S. News and World Report’s U.S. Graduate School rankings increase the MI program’s ranking to sixth in nation up from number seven in 2018.
SC&I alumna Stacy Brody MI ‘18 named a Library Journal Librarian of the Year for her volunteer work with the Librarian Reserve Corps, a World Health Organization/Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network partner, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
