2024/2025 has been a highly productive school year for faculty research in the LIS Department/iSchool at Rutgers University’s SC&I.

Here is a select set of scholarly works.

BEST PAPER AWARD

2025 AASL Educators of School Librarians Section (ESLS) Research Paper Award for: B., Brenda and Dziedzic-Elliott, E. What I had, what I needed:  First-year students reflect on how their high school experience prepared them for college research. The Journal of Academic Librarianship. (49)4.

2024 ASIS&T SIG USE Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award for: D. Agosto, J. Abbas, Y. Feng, & G. Salib. (2024). “We were beaten down”: Parents’ concerns about children’s digital media use. ASIS&T 2024, 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology, October 28, 2024, Calgary, AB, Canada.

RECOGNITION

Vivek Singh received the ASIS&T SIG-Social Media Senior Researcher Award, 2024. This award recognizes the sustained and ongoing contributions of one senior researcher to the field of social media within information science.

STATE AWARD

Joyce Valenza 2025 New Jersey Center for the Book Literary Lion (presented to an individual who has demonstrated exceptional dedication to literacy, reading, and the print culture in the State of New Jersey)

GRANTS

American Library Association Carnegie-Whitney Grant to create online Starter Kit in international youth literature, Marc Aronson, Annette Goldsmith, David Jacobson

SELECT BOOK PUBLICATION 

Aronson, M. and Freedman, P. (2024). Bite by Bite: American History through Feasts, Foods, and Side Dishes, New York: Atheneum

Dalbello, M. & S. Wadsworth, Eds. Global Voices from the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition - Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 286 p.

SELECT JOURNAL ARTICLES / CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS / REFEREED PAPER PRESENTATION

A. Ahmed & D. Agosto, “Information privilege: Considerations for library and information science curriculum design.” ALISE ‘24, Association for Library and Information Science Education 2024 Annual Conference, October 14-17, 2024, Portland, OR.

Jung, W., Sinha, A., Kim, A., Shah, V., Lu, Y., Lee, L., & Ammari, T. (2025). The Last Mile in Remote Sensing Poverty Prediction. ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 3(3), 1-54.

Joy, K., Liang, M., & Ammari, T. (2025). " If it has an exclamation point, I step away from it, I need facts, not excited feelings": Technologically Mediated Parental COVID Uncertainty. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(2), 1-38.

Walters, A., Ammari, T., Garimella, K., and Jhaver, S. (2024). Online Knowledge Production in Polarized Political Memes: The Case of Critical Race Theory. New Media & Society.

Ammari, T., Ahn, E., Lakhankar, A., & Lee, J. Y. (2025). Finding Understanding and Support: Navigating Online Communities to Share and Connect at the intersection of Abuse and Foster Care Experiences. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(2), 1-40.

Randazzo, C., & Ammari, T. (2025). Kintsugi-Inspired Design: Communicatively Reconstructing Identities Online After Trauma. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.17639.

Randazzo, C., Kim, M., Kwestel, M., Doerfel, M. L., & Ammari, T. (2025). " We're losing our neighborhoods. We're losing our community": A comparative analysis of community discourse in online and offline public spheres. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.07892.

Lee, J. Y., Ahn, E., Xu, A., Yang, Y., Chang, Y., Cha, H., & Ammari, T. (2024). Artificial intelligence in applied family research involving families with young children: A scoping review. Family Relations.

Aronson, M. and M., Siddha Chrysogonus (2025) Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature:  “(Not) The last Unicorn: Nonfiction in Children’s Literature”

Bettivia, R.*, Cheng, Y-Y.* & Gryk*, M. (2025). Usage of the term provenance in LIS literature. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST). 1-31.

Cheng, Y.-Y., & Dinh, L. (2025). An experiment on the impact of relation types towards taxonomy alignment problems. Information Processing & Management Journal (IP&M), 62(3), 1-17.

Cheng, Y.-Y.*, & Dinh, L*. (2025). Extracting geographic relations from large social media text data. International Journal of Geographic Information Science (IJGIS), 1-23.

Du, X., & Costello, K. L. (2025). Information snowballing: Information practices in the context of sustainable food practices. Journal of Documentation, 81(2), 469-490.

Horta Ribeiro, M., Jhaver, S., Cluet-i-Martinell, J., Reignier-Tayar, M., & West, R. (2025). Deplatforming Norm-Violating Influencers on Social Media Reduces Overall Online Attention Toward Them. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9, 2, Article CSCW062 (May 2025), 25 pages.

Jhaver, S. (2025). Bans vs. Warning Labels: Examining Bystanders’ Support for Community-wide Moderation Interventions. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Volume 32, Issue 2. Article No.: 18, Pages 1 – 30.

Jhaver, S., Rathi, H., & Saha, K. (2024). Bystanders of Online Moderation: Examining the Effects of Witnessing Post-Removal Explanations. Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article No.: 191, Pages 1 – 9.

Kim, S., X. Zhang, and G. Gao. (2025). Camera, Action, False Alert! Tackling the Flood of False Alerts in Smart Home Cameras. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’25), July 05–09, 2025, Funchal, Portugal. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages.

Kim, S., I. Oseitutu, and S. Ahmed. (2025). "Understanding the Needs, Challenges, and Strategies Undocumented Students Have in Pursuing Higher Education in the US." In 2025 58th Hawaii international conference on system sciences (HICSS).

Kranich, N. (2025). “Libraries—Guardians of Democracy,” The Political Librarian, Special Issue 8 (1) April: 166-170.

Paris, B. and Butman, J. (Forthcoming, 2025) They Might Be Giants: Selling Magical Thinking to Ease Epistemic Friction. Limn Journal.

Palmer, C.L., Stevenson, S., Reynolds, R., Kazmer, M., Erdelez, S., & Marzullo, K. (2025). LIS in the Multidisciplinary iSchool: Charting Collective Pathways to a Vibrant Future. iConference, March 18-22, 2025. Indiana Bloomington, USA. Presentation of perspectives from authors of Volume 2 of the LIS Forward Report (Friday Harbor Papers).

Reynolds, R., Jones, K. (2025). Trade publications and practitioner focused media as knowledge resources in educator decision-making about educational technology and AI. Governing Knowledge Commons Annual Workshop 2025. May 22-23, 2025. Villanova University, Radnor, PA, USA.

Valenza, J.K. Partnering for Human-Centered Change. Knowledge Quest. May/June 2024

Valenza, J.K. and Kachel, D.E. (2024) “Future of School Libraries: It’s About Equity.” In Library 2035: Imaging the Next Generation of Libraries. Rowman and Littlefield.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Dalbello, M. (In press). “A Comparatist Approach for Studying Immigrant Book Cultures.” In Writing and Reading Migrant Belonging in Early-20th-Century North America. Eds. S. Rantanen, K. Salmi-Niklander, S. Saramo. Turku: Migration Institute of Finland.

Dalbello, M. “Inside the Drawers of the Ellis Island Immigration Station.” In The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces: Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers. Eds. J. P. C. Brown, A. Jamieson, N. Segal, pp. 183-199. Leiden: Brill (Spatial Practices, Vol. 40)

Dalbello, M. “Central European Collections: The Periphery Challenging the Center.” In Global Voices from the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition - Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive. Eds. M. Dalbello, S. Wadsworth, pp. 91-114. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.  

Spoerri, A., M. Dalbello, & J. Derucki. “A Comparative and Structural Analysis of European Works in the Woman’s Building Library.” In Global Voices from the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition - Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive. Eds. M. Dalbello, S. Wadsworth, pp. 21-31. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Dalbello, M., & S. Wadsworth. Introduction to Global Voices from the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition - Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive. Eds. M. Dalbello, S. Wadsworth, pp. 1-18. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

BOOK REVIEWS

Aronson, M. (2025), review of Earthrise by L. Marcus New York Times Book Review, March 2, 2025

Aronson, M. (2025), review of Rebels, Robbers, and Radicals by T. Kanefield, New York Times Book Review, July 4, 2025

EXHIBITS CURATED

Home Game: Toronto Loves Basketball, Museum of Toronto, Marc Aronson guest curator, Summer 2025

PRESENTATIONS

Dalbello, M. “Early Feminist Networks of Cosmopolitan Women Writers,” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) annual conference, University of Rochester, US, July 7-11, 2025.  

Dalbello, M. “Bibliographical Archaeology Making Women's Networks in Femina Collections Visible,” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) annual conference, University of Rochester, US, July 7-11, 2025.

Dalbello, M. “Double-Exposure Autobiographies of Proletarian and Immigrant Types,” SIEF 2025: University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK: June 3-6, 2025.

Dalbello, M. “Immigrants, Librarians, and Radical Proletarian Readers,” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) annual conference, University of Reading, UK, July 1-5, 2024.

Kranich, N. “Libraries: Guardians of Democracy,” Presentation to the National Issues Forum Network, Online, June 11, 2025.

Kranich, N. “Free People Read Freely,” Presentation to the Rutgers School of Social Work Online, October 31, 2024.

Kranich, N. “The Role of Libraries in Promoting Democracy and Conflict Resolution,” Keynote Address, ALA Think Tank on Building Bridges: Democracy, Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Modern World, San Jose State University Online, October 30, 2024.

Kranich, N. “Promoting Civic Literacy through Forums,” Presentation at Social Responsibilities Round Table Program on Combating Voter Suppression in Your Library, Online, September 12, 2024.

Paris, B. (July 18, 2025). Roadmaps for AI and Educational Technology in Higher Education. American Association for University Professors Summer Institute, Morehouse College. Atlanta, GA.

May, E., Sargent, S., and Paris, B. (May 9, 2025). Meaningful Interventions around AI for Organized Labor in Education: “We are All Federal Workers” What is Work Worth? Symposium, AI and Labor Initiative, Data & Society Research Institute, New York City. (Remote)=

Paris, B. (March 4, 2025) AI Infiltration into Higher Education: Symptoms, Causes, and Roadmaps for the Future. Communication Workers of America’s Committee on AI. (Remote)

Paris, B. (September 26, 2024). Roadmaps for Refusal of AI in Production Work. Alison Bernstein Media Mentoring Program, Institute for Women's Leadership. Rutgers University, New Brunswick. (Remote)

Paris, B. (September 26, 2024). AI in images, video and the complexities of expert testimony. Vermont Law Review Symposium on Child Protection. University of Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT. (Remote)

Paris, B. (July 15, 2024) What happens when you dig up a buried body? Uncovering theories of change to re-imagine Internet infrastructure. Symposium on Critical Internet Governance. Critical Infrastructure Lab, University of Amsterdam & Research Network on Internet Governance / Rede de Pesquisa em Governança da Internet, Brazil. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Joyce Valenza:

Feb. 2025   Keynote: Librarians and Gen AI, Utah School Library Association

Nov. 2024   WikiEDU Team: Incorporating AI into Research for Wikipedians

Oct. 2024.   Literacy Roundtable Webinar: So You're a New School Librarian

Oct. 2024.   Opening Keynote: Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries, Libraries in Response

Sep. 2024  AASL Inaugural Gathering: Partnering for Human-Centered Change

Aug. 2024 Boss Librarians PD: Integration GenAI Ethically and Effectively in Student Inquiry

June 2024  Back to the Future: Libraries 2035 RUSA President’s Panel, ALA Annual

June 2024   ESLS Research Presentation, the School Librarianship Pipeline, preliminary results

Journal Editor Production

7 issues of Information and Learning Sciences journal published (co-founded, edited by Prof. Rebecca Reynolds):

Regular Issues:

https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2398-5348/vol/125/iss/7/8

https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2398-5348/vol/125/iss/11/12

https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2398-5348/vol/126/iss/1/2

https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2398-5348/vol/126/iss/3/4

https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2398-5348/vol/126/iss/5/6

Special Issue on Learning with Social Media in an Algorithmic Age (with guest editors):

https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2398-5348/vol/125/iss/9

https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2398-5348/vol/125/iss/10