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.
Alumna Barbara Burton’s new book explores Westfield’s 300-year history, including events during the American Revolutionary War, the day in 1838 when the train arrived, and the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Renowned Handbook includes a chapter by Chayko on the practice of identity, and one by Paris on information, technology, and work.
Beth Rizzotti earned her Master of Library Science at SC&I in 1991. While a graduate student, she took an internship that developed into a full-time position which in turn led to a decades-long career with her current employer, Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH). Having this experience prompts Beth to advise students to start networking from their very first day at SC&I.
