Scholars at the School of Communication and Information take an interdisciplinary approach to research that spans the fields of information science, library studies, communication, journalism and media studies.
In a survey of 500 Gen Zers ages 13 to 24, Beal found that 86% of Gen Zers “conduct research on a brand before purchasing a product to learn if the brand is purposeful and contributes to a better society.”
SC&I and Rutgers Libraries celebrated April 2, the official day of International Youth Literature, by hosting an exciting event and ribbon cutting for a new international children's and young adult book collection at Rutgers, as well as the online LibGuide linked to the collection.
Greenberg has been chosen as one of only 15 academics, independent scholars, creative writers, and visual artists working on book projects to be named a recipient of a Cullman Fellowship from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Associate Teaching Professor Joyce Valenza worked with LIS students and alumni to launch SchoolLibraryNJ, a website hosting a variety of LibGuides for students, parents, educators, administrators, and librarians to access critical resources for bridging information equity gaps.
Parents without a four-year college degree are far more likely to be vaccine hesitant and resistant than their counterparts with a four-year college degree or higher.
As parents prepare for their children to return to school in the fall, Associate Professor Vikki Katz and her colleagues work to find answers for educators and policymakers seeking to smooth children’s transitions back into classrooms.
By Megan Schumann, Rutgers University Communications
Love, a faculty member at SC&I, wrote a chapter for the new book “Four Hundred Souls” that tells the history of the Royal African Company, an English slave-trading company that held a monopoly on the British slave trade between the African continent and the West Indies.
The iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award Chairs wrote, in praise of Ghosh’s dissertation, “the thesis combines the use of developing methods, an emerging technology, and is also true to ‘the best traditions of our field.’”
Written by SC&I part-time faculty and alumni Ralph Gigliotti and Christine Goldthwaite, this new book is a resource for leaders and aspiring leaders at all levels working in an academic health context who desire to create change, navigate crisis, and pursue organizational excellence.
