MI News

ALA Awards Amaobi Otiji MI’25 a 2024 Spectrum Scholarship

Spectrum Scholarships, the ALA said, are awarded to master’s students who demonstrate “their commitment to community building, leadership potential, and planned contributions to making social justice part of everybody's everyday work in Library and Information Science.”

Rutgers Award-Winning LIS Department Faculty and Doctoral Students to Attend the 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology

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.

LIS Faculty and Doctoral Students to Present at ALISE 2024

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.’

LIDA Keynote and Long Call for Participation-EXTENDED to Oct. 15, 2024

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.

From Blueberries to Books–Meet Academic Librarian Joyce DeStasio MI’22

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.