SCARLA General Interest Meeting
SCARLA—the Student College and Research Libraries Association, the Rutgers chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)—is holding its first meeting of the new semester!
Please join us on Tuesday, September 10, at 7pm EDT via Zoom.
If you are interested in learning more about the academic library community and career opportunities. Come chat, make friends, learn more about SCARLA activities. SCARLA sponsors several events like our Banned Books Week event, Critical Librarianship Collective, guest speakers and alumni and networking panels. We have open leadership positions, so please come to find out how you can get involved.
Post MI-Employment: the First Five Years
Please join SCARLA on April 16th at 7pm for Post MI-Employment: the First Five Years. We’re excited to welcome three panelists who are recent grads of the RU-MI program, all employed in higher education settings.
Joining us on April 16th are:
- Michael Murphy, RU MI ’22, Politics, Policy, and Data Librarian at Seton Hall University
- Chelsea Rizzolo, RU MI ’20, Instructor / Librarian at Brookdale Community College
- Victoria Sun, RU MI ’23, Business & Research Support Services Librarian at Penn Libraries
Topics to be covered include: How do I parlay my internship into a full-time gig? How do I make the leap from paraprofessional to librarian status? How do I leverage student leadership and publication experiences into marketable assets of my candidacy and CV? What is the best advice for a graduate student preparing to enter the academic library job market?
All will share a bit about their job search and initial months in their current positions, in addition to talking about the specific aspects highlighted above. There will also be time for Q&A from attendees.
This event is co-sponsored by the MI Colloquium, and is an eligible Colloquium event. It will be recorded for those who cannot attend on the 16th. Please use the following link to register: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkfu-prTwpGdNFQsvNLiGjl80bQyJfbRCH
Can’t wait to see you there!
CritLib Collective with Fobazi Ettarh
Join SCARLA on Tuesday, March 19 at 7pm EST for our CritLib Collective event series, a space where students, faculty, and librarians can gather for informal discussions on important topics related to critical librarianship. For this iteration of our series, we are reading “Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves” by Fobazi Ettarh. You can find the open access article here.
Fobazi Ettarh will be joining us for the meeting to give a short talk about her experiences writing this article and what she has learned since, with time for discussion to follow.
Register for CritLib Collective here. Bring your questions, thoughts, and anecdotes! We are excited for the conversation!
Fobazi M. Ettarh started out in libraries as a school librarian, then was an academic librarian doing mostly public facing roles such as instruction and student success. She is currently in her deferment year for her PhD at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. In the meantime, she is an independent scholar and consultant for library organizations and training.
Fobazi’s research is concerned with the relationships and tensions between the espoused values of librarianship and the realities present in the experiences of marginalized librarians and library users. In 2018, she coined the term and defined the concept of “vocational awe,” which describes, “the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in beliefs that libraries as institutions are inherently good and sacred, and therefore beyond critique.” In her article “Vocational Awe: The Lies We Tell Ourselves,” she describes how vocational awe can lead to burnout and a sense that one’s own self-care is less important than the work being done.
Fobazi Ettarh’s critical work on libraries, labor, and identity has been published in In the Library With the Lead Pipe and edited collections, including the Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook and Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory. She has given invited talks at numerous professional and scholarly conferences and events, including the Library as Place Symposium, and keynotes at the Association of College and Research Libraries and Library Journal Directors’ Summit.
SCARLA General Interest Meeting & ACRL-NJ Panel Discussion
SCARLA (Student College and Research Libraries Association) is holding a joint General Interest Meeting-Panel Discussion on Tuesday, February 27 at 6:30 pm EST. We invite you to come chat with your fellow MI classmates and help us build programming for the upcoming year!
A Panel Discussion with SCARLA/SC&I Alumni
November 14, 2023, 6pm EST
Join SCARLA (Student College, Academic, and Research Libraries Association) via Zoom on Tuesday, 11/14/23, at 6pm EST for a panel discussion with SCARLA and SC&I alums: Wafa Isfahany, Fobazi Ettarh, Lorin Jackson, and Vanessa Kitzie. Panelists will discuss their professional interests, life after graduation, job searches, and advice for current students. Perfect for SC&I students thinking ahead to graduation, this discussion will be followed by an expansive Q&A session, so be sure to bring your questions!
Register here: http://bit.ly/2023_SCARLA-SCI_Alumni_Panel