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The School of Communication and Information’s LIS Department and iSchool faculty and doctoral students will attend and present at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), the premier international conference in the field, from October 25-29, 2024, in Calgary, Canada. SC&I is honored to sponsor the welcome reception.

Faculty and doctoral students will attend the 2024 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) conference in Portland, Oregon, from October 14-17. ALISE '24, the premier annual gathering of library and information science (LIS) professionals, will focus on this year’s theme, 'The Ethics and Evolution of Truth and Information.’

Libraries and Information Institutions in the Digital Age (LIDA) is an international biennial conference that brings together researchers, educators, students, practitioners, and developers from around the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, held in memorable environments. For LIDA 2025, we return to Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 19-21, 2025.

She’s also a good-humored, airplane-flying, novel-writing former opera singer who writes songs and plays the spoons.

A farmer’s daughter hailing from Hammonton, New Jersey, the “blueberry capital of the world,” Joyce DeStasio’s always had a love for literature and education. While she’s currently the outreach librarian at Stockton University’s Bjork Library in Galloway, NJ, librarianship wasn’t always her path.

“Understanding information is a necessity to understanding the world, its processes, and its people.”

Carnegie Corporation of New York announced its annual list of Great Immigrants, honoring 24 naturalized citizens whose contributions have enriched our society and strengthened our democracy.

Chelsea Rizzolo MI’20, SAS’13 is a Jersey girl who earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Rutgers after, as she put it, “dabbling in film school in New York.”

Rutgers University, at the time of my admission, held the prestigious position of being ranked 6th among library science schools, a testament to its rigorous academic standards and esteemed standing in the field.

Cheyenne Riehl MI’21, BS’18 is putting her Rutgers education to wonderful use. Currently the Student Success Librarian at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey, Riehl shares the circuitous route that led her to her dream job.