“My time at Rutgers, the education I received, and the teachers and peers I met, led me to where I am today. Simple as that,” said Bulut.
Two Rutgers School of Communication and Information (SC&I) Master of Information (MI) students—Deborah Alejandra Popowski and Victoria Sun—were awarded Spectrum Scholarships by the American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services.
“Librarians must work with the community, rooting their work and decisions in what matters most to people so that their efforts are authentic and relevant,” said lead researcher and SC&I Part-Time Faculty Member Nancy Kranich.
Thirteen Rutgers School of Communication and Information alumni were selected as members of the Emerging Leaders Class of 2021 by the New Jersey Library Association (NJLA), the state’s oldest and largest library organization.
Rutgers was a good fit for Josh Rochotte, and SC&I is proud to claim him as a double alumnus. After majoring in Information Technology and Information (ITI) and Psychology, Josh completed a Master of Information (MI) degree in 2018.
SC&I alumna Vanessa Kitzie MLIS '11, Ph.D. '16, has researched the information practices of LGBTQIA+ populations, particularly the kinds of health questions community members have and the ways they navigate around information barriers to find answers. Read more in an article by the University of South Carolina where KItzie is an assistant professor.
According to the Campus Pride Index list, Rutgers University is one of the most LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities in the U.S, earning a 5-star rating. The index, the premier LGBTQ national benchmarking tool for colleges and universities since 2007, is based on eight factors, including LGBTQ policy inclusion, housing, academic life, and student life.
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.
