General Meeting

Join SCARLA for a general meeting. We will be discussing potential articles for our upcoming #CritLib Collective event.

#CritLib Collective

Join SCARLA for our second session of #CritLibCollective, a space where students, faculty, and librarians can gather for informal discussions on important topics related to critical librarianship. Stay tuned for the article we will be reading!

BANNED: A Virtual Banned Books Read-Out & Discussions on the Freedom to Read

September 21, 2022 at 5:30 – 7:00pm EST (with optional informal discussion from 7:00-7:30pm) Presented by: SCARLA (The Student College, Academic, and Research Libraries Association), SOURCE (Student Organization for Unique and Rare Collections Everywhere), and LISSA (Library and Information Science Student Association) As part of Banned Book Week, you are invited to BANNED: A Virtual […]

General Meeting – September 2025

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 […]

Celebrating Intellectual Freedom: Banned Books Week

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 […]

Guest Speaker: Jay Singley – #CritLib & Writing for Publication as a Graduate Student

Join SCARLA in welcoming Jay Singley, author of the recent ACRLog guest blog post “We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question”. The post is a critical examination of using Ex Libris’ “Summon Research Assistant”, an AI-powered research assistance tool meant to aid users in summarizing and locating citations. Jay audited the Summon tool after […]

Career Panel with Recent Alumni

Join SCARLA as we welcome Chelsea Rizzolo, Lisa Thornton and Taylor Baugher, all alumni of the Rutgers MI program who now work in academic libraries! This event will be an opportunity for current MI students to hear from our panelists about their career experiences and to gain insights into academic librarianship as a career. Students […]

General Meeting – December 2025

All are welcome to our final meeting of the year. Join us to celebrate your hard work, hang out, and talk about what events we might want to host in the spring semester. We will also be discussing and naming the new Executive Board. If you are interested in joining the Executive Board, please reach […]