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 that umbrella? What courses in the MI program can I take? Our first event this year, Celebrating Intellectual Freedom: Banned Books Week,...
#CritLib Collective: AI and Academic Librarianship
SCARLA Event – CritLib: AI and Academic Librarianship Join SCARLA and LISSA on March 25th for an open discussion on AI, ethics, and academic librarianship! What is CritLib? Critical Librarianship explores and discusses librarianship and information work through a critical and activist practice. We will be discussing the article “LLMs beyond the lab: the ethics and epistemics of real-world AI research” written by Joost Mollen. You can access the article through the Rutgers Libraries:...
General Meeting – February 2025
Curious about academic librarianship? Just want to chat with some other students in the program? You’re invited to SCARLA’s first general interest meeting of the semester! Some of the topics we will be discussing are: What is academic librarianship? What kind of jobs fall under that umbrella? What courses at Rutgers can I take that relate? We’ll also discuss our first event of the semester, a CritLib on AI. We will be discussing an article on AI, ethics, and what it means for us as information...
October 29, 6:00 pm—SCARLA general interest meeting
Join SCARLA (the Student College and Research Libraries Association—the Rutgers chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries) on Tuesday, October 29 at 4:00 p.m. EDT for our next general interest meeting! Come chat, make friends, learn more about past SCARLA activities like our Banned Books Week readings, Critical Librarianship Collective, guest speakers and alumni and networking panels, help plan this year’s events, and find out how you can get involved. Zoom:...
Banned Books Week!
More books are being targeted for censorship than ever—according to the ALA, over four thousand titles were challenged in 2023, 65% more than in 2022, with organized pressure groups increasingly targeting public libraries as well as school libraries. Join SCARLA (Student College, Academic, and Research Libraries Association) on Tuesday, September 24 at 7:00 p.m. EDT for a free-ranging discussion of censorship and book challenge issues and readings from our favorite banned books. Sign up here...
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...
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...
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...
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! Starting at 7pm, we will also be joined by librarians from ACRL-NJ Chapter (New Jersey Chapter of the Association of College & Research Libraries). They will discuss their careers, as well opportunities and requirements...
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...