Curious about academic librarianship? Come join SCARLA for our first general interest meeting of the semester. Everyone is welcome! SCARLA is the Student College, Academic, and Research Libraries Association at Rutgers.

Feel free to bring your own questions, and here are the main discussion topics:

• What is academic librarianship?
• What kind of jobs fall under that umbrella?
• What courses in the MI program can I take?
• Our first event this year, Celebrating Intellectual Freedom: Banned Books Week, is on October 6th. Click here to find the open-mic sign ups or to submit a video, photo, or text post honoring a banned book.
• Ways you can participate with SCARLA

Interested, but can’t make it? Have any questions? Please reach out! Our email is rutgers.scarla@gmail.com or you can reach out to Lauren Gaudite at lg948@scarletmail.rutgers.edu.

Visit our site to learn more: https://scarla.rutgers.edu

We hope to see you there!

Meeting information:
Date: September 29, 2025
Time: 6 PM – 7 PM EST
Location: Zoom – To attend, please register for the event.

Join SCARLA and LISSA on Monday October 6, 2025 in a free-flowing discussion & open mic night celebrating the right to intellectual freedom and highlighting the leaders in our communities championing the fight against censorship. Come read an excerpt from your favorite banned book or sit with us in solidarity.

Register here. We also have a padlet, Celebrating Intellectual Freedom, for more info and community submissions!

Censorship is no longer creeping into the fabric of our country; it is steamrolling forward. And many of the loudest pro-censorship voices have positions of power within our communities. The data released during National Library Week 2025 shows that “the majority of book censorship attempts are now originating from organized movements. Pressure groups and government entities that include elected officials, board members, and administrators initiated 72% of demands to censor books in school and public libraries.”

Instead of giving in to these attacks, ALA annually celebrates Banned Book Week, which takes place this year from October 5 – 11. The theme this year is “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” Here are some ways you can get involved.

SCARLA and LISSA hope you will join us in standing up for our rights.

Date: October 6, 2025
Time: 6 PM – 7:30 PM EST
Location: Zoom – To attend, please register for the event.

Ways you can participate:

• Join the conversation by submitting to the event padlet
• Read an excerpt from a banned book – all kinds of text and languages are welcome!
• Showcase your library’s banned book display
• Share your professional experiences with book challenges
• Tell us how reading a banned book affected your life
• And more!

Want to participate?

• To participate during the live event, please fill out this form. We are accepting a small number of pre-recorded submissions to play during.
• Submit your own additions to the padlet.

We can’t wait to see you there!

For any questions, please reach out to rutgers.scarla@gmail.com

Nov 10, 2025
6 -7 PM EST
Zoom registration link

More info to come!

Dec 1, 2025
6 -7 PM EST
Zoom registration link

More details to come!