Greer’s scholarship profoundly impacted the field of library and information science. In a Q&A with SC&I Professor Emeritus Dan O’Connor, one of Greer’s students and a lifelong colleague, SC&I explores Greer’s years at Rutgers and how Rutgers was instrumental in pioneering his work and teaching.
When Harry Potter fans have attended midnight movie launches, book signings, festivals, and other events, they are directly contributing to the success of the Harry Potter franchise, now and into the future.
The book “focuses on Menhem the designer; it offers an overview of his career along three main axes: political engagement, cultural production, and journalistic design.”
The book explores a new type of collective memory, that of aging baby boomers who first labeled their parents “The Greatest Generation” to share and celebrate their accomplishments during World War II.
Lingel explores “how craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early web.”
In this new book, Lerner tells the story of (MORE) and its legacy, and explores the power of criticism to reform and guide the institutions of the press and, in turn, influence public discourse.
Montague hopes to promote further collaboration between public librarians and social workers as she observes Rutgers’ first Masters of Social Work (MSW) intern, Sandra Burstyn, at the East Brunswick Public Library. Burstyn was placed there as a result of an existing collaboration between the School of Communication and Information, The School of Social Work, and the East Brunswick Public Library.
The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) annual meeting will be held in Melbourne, Australia, this year, and will focus on the ways information and its delivery “to the right group, at the right place, in the right time, and in the right way” impacts personal behaviors.
In an award-winning report, SC&I’s Doctoral Candidate Qun Wang and her co-authors shared their findings based on an analysis of 16,000 news stories from 100 local communities in 34 states.
SC&I Ph.D. students Kate Gressitt Diaz, Fredrika Thelandersson, and Nicole Weber received awards this summer.
