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Gslisadjuncts Fwd: Message from HR
by James Lowry 22 Dec '23

22 Dec '23

Colleagues, Many of you have received one or more automated emails about severance. The email thread below explains why this has happened. It looks like you will receive this email periodically in future, if for example, as has happened here, you have taught in Fall but will not teach in winter (because we don’t run winter sessions). If you and I have agreed that you’re teaching a class, then you’re teaching that class. If a class has to be cancelled because of low enrolment or budget cuts, you’ll hear from me directly about that. I’m sorry that you’ve got and will continue to get these alarming emails, but it seems it’s a legal requirement. Best James Begin forwarded message: From: Melissa Checker <Melissa.Checker(a)qc.cuny.edu> Date: December 21, 2023 at 18:40:08 EST To: Ekaterina Pechenkina <ekaterina.pechenkina(a)qc.cuny.edu>, "Qianyun (Ivy) Huang" <Qianyun.Huang(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Larissa Swedell <Larissa.Swedell(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Zadia Feliciano <Zadia.Feliciano(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Stephen Grover <Stephen.Grover(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Francois Pierre-Louis <Francois.Pierrelouis(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Shige Song <Shige.Song(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Melissa Checker <Melissa.Checker(a)qc.cuny.edu>, James Lowry <james.lowry(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Julia Sneeringer <juliasneeringer(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: Message from HR Sharon in HR just sent this to one of our adjuncts who got the message and whose hours did NOT change. I think it explains everything: To clarify the previous email received regarding separation and reduction of hours: Following recent legislation, information must be provided by to employees upon separation or reduction of hours. This new regulation mandates that when an employee separates or has a reduction in hours, CUNY must provide that employee with a written notice of their eligibility for unemployment benefits. The notice includes temporary separations such as end-of-semester appointments for part-time employees (e.g., part-time instructional and non-instructional staff and college assistants entering a break of service). It is expected that part-time staff will be provided with the notice multiple times a year. In short, this notice is in case you need to apply for unemployment if you are not assigned to work in the Winter session, from now until you come back to your position in the Spring semester. We apologize for any misunderstandings this may have caused. Thank you, Sharon On 12/21/2023 6:20 PM, Ekaterina Pechenkina wrote: Yes, Ivy, They seem to have sent it to some faculty members whose hours didn't change. I suspect this is a glitch in the system. I am not sure how the group of faculty members receiving these messages was identified. Sincerely K Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: Qianyun (Ivy) Huang <Qianyun.Huang(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Qianyun.Huang@qc.cuny.edu> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2023 6:17:51 PM To: Ekaterina Pechenkina <Ekaterina.Pechenkina(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Ekaterina.Pechenkina@qc.cuny.edu>; Larissa Swedell <Larissa.Swedell(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Larissa.Swedell@qc.cuny.edu>; Zadia Feliciano <Zadia.Feliciano(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Zadia.Feliciano@qc.cuny.edu>; Stephen Grover <Stephen.Grover(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Stephen.Grover@qc.cuny.edu>; Francois Pierre-Louis <Francois.Pierrelouis(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Francois.Pierrelouis@qc.cuny.edu>; Shige Song <Shige.Song(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Shige.Song@qc.cuny.edu>; Melissa Checker <Melissa.Checker(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Melissa.Checker@qc.cuny.edu>; James Lowry <James.Lowry(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:James.Lowry@qc.cuny.edu>; Julia Sneeringer <juliasneeringer(a)gmail.com><mailto:juliasneeringer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Message from HR Thank you, Kate. but they also sent this to an adjunct that are assigned courses in the spring. This happened to any other departments? Ivy Huang Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Ekaterina Pechenkina <Ekaterina.Pechenkina(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Ekaterina.Pechenkina@qc.cuny.edu> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2023 6:14:39 PM To: Larissa Swedell <Larissa.Swedell(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Larissa.Swedell@qc.cuny.edu>; Zadia Feliciano <Zadia.Feliciano(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Zadia.Feliciano@qc.cuny.edu>; Qianyun (Ivy) Huang <Qianyun.Huang(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Qianyun.Huang@qc.cuny.edu>; Stephen Grover <Stephen.Grover(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Stephen.Grover@qc.cuny.edu>; Francois Pierre-Louis <Francois.Pierrelouis(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Francois.Pierrelouis@qc.cuny.edu>; Shige Song <Shige.Song(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Shige.Song@qc.cuny.edu>; Melissa Checker <Melissa.Checker(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:Melissa.Checker@qc.cuny.edu>; James Lowry <James.Lowry(a)qc.cuny.edu><mailto:James.Lowry@qc.cuny.edu>; Julia Sneeringer <juliasneeringer(a)gmail.com><mailto:juliasneeringer@gmail.com> Subject: Message from HR Dear Colleagues, This is a heads up that HR has just sent the following message to some faculty members. Per HR, they are now required to send this message by law. Sincerely, K [1000004408.png] [1000004409.jpg] Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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Gslisadjuncts Information for adjuncts
by James Lowry 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Dear colleagues, The department is aware of how little support there is for our adjuncts, especially newly appointed adjuncts trying to navigate Queens College and CUNY systems. There are a lot of things we’d like to do to address that, but foremost among them is trying to get an authoritative source of information for adjuncts to refer to. This began as an adjunct handbook, but in the interests of transparency and reducing duplication, we’ve decided to incorporate the adjunct handbook into a department handbook. This is an evolving document, still very much in draft form, but you can see the current version here: Department Handbook<https://docs.google.com/document/d/169mN26sndTWdeYZA4RkIy0PIKhS8CEMCu8jAUKA…> I’d be very grateful if adjuncts could look at the fourth section, which Johnathan Thayer has been working on (thank you Johnathan!) and add any comments you may have about information you’d like to see included in the handbook. What would you like to know (more) about? What do you wish you’d been told when you were first appointed? What support would you like to see from the department? Please add comments to the document and we will continue to develop it. Thank you for your work for the department and our students. With best wishes for the holidays, James Dr. James Lowry (he/him) Associate Professor Chair and Director, Information Studies, Queens College<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis> Ellen Libretto and Adam Conrad Endowed Chair in Information Studies City University of New York<https://www.cuny.edu/> https://us02web.zoom.us/my/jlowrycuny

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Gslisadjuncts Fwd: Seeking nominations for the Eli M. Oboler Award
by James Lowry 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Begin forwarded message: From: Leila Green Little <lalubean(a)gmail.com> Date: December 12, 2023 at 11:00:40 EST Subject: Seeking nominations for the Eli M. Oboler Award * This email originates from a sender outside of CUNY. Verify the sender before replying or clicking on links and attachments. * Hello, My name is Leila Green Little, and I’m a member of the Intellectual Freedom Round Table’s Oboler Award Committee. I’m writing to encourage nominations for the 2023 Eli M. Oboler Award. This year ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Round Table is soliciting nominations for articles on the topic of intellectual freedom. The award honors a literary work or series of works in the area of intellectual freedom. This can include matters of ethical, political, or social concerns related to intellectual freedom. The article should have been published on the local, state, or national level in English or English translation in the 2022 or 2023 calendar years up through the end of December 2023. You can find more details in the press release which can be found at Intellectual Freedom Round Table seeks nominations for the Eli M. Oboler Award | News and Press Center (ala.org)<https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/10/intellectual-freedom-round-…>. It is our hope that the ALA Publishing & Media Office might have some titles in mind that they would like to nominate. Please feel free to share this request broadly! Thank you! Leila Green Little, on behalf of the 2024 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award Committee

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Gslisadjuncts GSLIS Newsletter - Fall 2023
by Yi-Chun Wu 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Dear GSLIS Faculty, We are happy to share our Fall 2023 department newsletter. Please take a few minutes to read about the progress made by our department, and to celebrate the achievements of our community of students, faculty, and alumni. Please share widely with your networks! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *View QC GSLIS Fall 2023 Newsletter pdf: Desktop version<https://drive.google.com/file/d/12JLXHesBD0Ge8VP4SnjYxoq2QJ5XaRLU/view?usp=…> | Letter printable version<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oIWw4vycCYYdMucEG1iUZonbCtl_7Ktj/view?usp=…> [QC GSLIS Logo]<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/> [linkedin]<https://www.linkedin.com/school/qcgslis> [Web Site] <https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/> [Fall 2023 Newsletter - QC GSLIS] Fall 2023 Newsletter December 2023 Queens College, The City University of New York Graduate School of Library and Information Studies MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR It has been a busy semester for GSLIS at Queens College, CUNY! In summer, we were granted continued accreditation by the American Library Association, so firstly I need to thank all the students, alumni, faculty and others who turned up for our program! We are nothing without our community, and the accreditation team were particularly impressed by the sense of community around this program. We were joined by four new faculty members this Fall, bringing our full time faculty to twelve. Full bios for the new faculty are presented in this newsletter, but here I want to acknowledge the work each is doing to strengthen our program. Prof. Emily Drabinski (current president of the American Library Association!) is our liaison to the CUNY Council of Chief Librarians and is also contributing to our Research and Pedagogy Committee. After her term with the ALA, Emily will be helping us develop a new advanced certificate for academic librarianship. Dr. Vikki Terrile is coordinating our Advanced Certificate in Children and Youth Services in the Public Library and she is currently reviewing its scope and structure to ensure that it best meets employer expectations and community needs. Vikki is also chairing our Planning and Assessment Committee as we put in place new processes that will allow the department to more accurately gauge its performance and plan strategically for better ways to achieve our program learning outcomes. Prof. Brandon Jeffries has been appointed to the newly created role of Director of Student Affairs. In that capacity, Brandon oversees recruitment, admissions, retention, advisement, and alumni relations. Bringing together these functions in one role will help to create a better student experience, and Brandon is already proactively developing new services and new relationships across and beyond the Queens College campus. Dr. Nerve Macaspac, a geographer and cartographer, is contributing to our Communications Committee, and will be developing new classes and programs for us in geographic information systems, spatial analysis, user experience and user centered design, and topics in the digital humanities. We’ve also been joined by some brilliant new adjuncts, practitioners drawn from New York’s rich and diverse institutions and networks, ensuring that our students are exposed to varied expertise and perspectives. We appreciate our all of our adjuncts and in the year ahead I want to look at how to improve the adjunct experience in GSLIS. Our department also stands by PSC-CUNY (our faculty union) as it negotiates with the university for a new contract and a better deal for adjuncts. New course development has continued be a focus of the department, led by the Curriculum Committee. Some of the new courses are featured in this newsletter, and many more are in the pipeline: more on that in a future newsletter! Our Research and Pedagogy Committee continued its Research in Praxis seminar series, and ran a faculty workshop on digital accessibility. Future workshops will continue to support and improve teaching in GSLIS, and we’re grateful to the committee members for their work on that front. Congratulations to the students, alumni and faculty for their accomplishments outlined in this newsletter: such important and impressive work! Students and alumni are encouraged to stay in touch through the regular student town halls, through the alumni community hub linked in this newsletter, and at our many virtual and in person events. Most recently, our dedicated careers advisor, Kim McNeil Capers, with our Director of Student Affairs, hosted a fantastic job fair (details below) that saw students connect with employers on campus in a way that we haven’t seen since the pandemic started. Finally, many thanks to Dr. Johnathan Thayer and Prof. Yi-Chun Wu for putting this newsletter together. Much more to come from GSLIS! Dr. James Lowry, Chair and Director, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Queens College, City University of New York NEW FACULTY Core Faculty<https://example.com/> [Prof. Emily Drabinski]<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/faculty/core-faculty/emily-drabinski> Prof. Emily Drabinski Emily Drabinski accepted a position as Associate Professor at GSLIS starting Fall 2023. Academic Statement: My research is embedded in critical librarianship, an area of research and practice that engages questions of power and the history, present, and future of libraries. I have long been interested in the intersections of critical theory and knowledge organization, particularly in the classification and description from a queer theoretical perspective. How can we fix in classificatory space concepts that, by their nature, are shifting and contingent? In 2013, I published “Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction” in Library Quarterly and have continued exploring these questions into the present. My current research project, Ways of Knowing, is a partnership with librarian and sound artist Amanda Belantara. We are collecting oral histories of alternative knowledge organization systems, with an initial set of transcripts forthcoming as a primary source collection from Library Juice Press/Litwin Books. I am also interested in the ways that collective power can be built and wielded on behalf of libraries and the communities we serve. In addition to my work as a librarian, I have experience in the organized labor movement, including serving as Secretary of the Long Island University Faculty Federation in 2016 during the first lockout of higher education faculty in the history of the United States. I have written and presented widely on that experience, which then informed my decision to run for 2023-24 President of the American Library Association. In this role, I write and speak widely on the particular issues facing American libraries in the context of anti-democratic legislation that seeks to limit access to information by, about, and intended for Black, Indigenous, and people of color as well as the LGBTQIA+ community. Read More<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/faculty/core-faculty/emily-drabinski> Core Faculty<https://example.com/> [Prof. Brandon Jeffries]<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/faculty/core-faculty/brandon-jeffries> Prof. Brandon Jeffries Brandon Jeffries accepted a position as Director of Student Affairs at GSLIS starting Fall 2023. Academic Statement: To bring resources, best practices and learned experiences to the students at Queens College Graduate Library Science Program. Leveraging over 17 years of experience in the nonprofit industry including but not limited to: facilitation, direct service, management and executive management in Queens, New York. Professional development, stewardship and career guidance are aspects that I take pride in incorporating into workforce environments while implementing library resources, processes and standards that can support both organization and community next steps. My academic approach reinforces rigor through project-based assignments and research principles. Read More<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/faculty/core-faculty/brandon-jeffries> Core Faculty<https://example.com/> [Dr. Nerve V. Macaspac]<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/faculty/core-faculty/nerve-macaspac> Dr. Nerve V. Macaspac Dr. Nerve V. Macaspac accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at GSLIS starting Fall 2023. Academic Statement: I am a political geographer and cartographer with a regional focus in Southeast Asia. My current interdisciplinary and ethnographic research contributes to our understanding of spaces of peace amid violence, indigenous peacebuilding, and spatial dimensions of peace. I am a Co-Investigator in three collaborative research projects. First, “Creating Safer Spaces: Strengthening Civilian Protection Amidst Violent Conflict,” a multi-year international and interdisciplinary research project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the United Kingdom (UK), which investigates how violence can be deterred or prevented by civilians without the use of force. Second, “Building the Southeast Asian Consortium at SUNY and CUNY,” a multi-year initiative to build Southeast Asian Studies within NY’s public universities and funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Third, “Strengthening the Capacity of Human Rights Defenders,” a multi-year research project that examines the closing of civic spaces and the consequences of online violence to digital civic spaces in collaboration with the Center for International Human Rights at John Jay College of Criminology at CUNY. I also serve as a Graduate Faculty at the Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) Doctoral Program and the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (ITP) Program at the Graduate Center. Finally, I am a Faculty Fellow at the CUNY Black, Race and Ethnic Studies (BRES) Curriculum Development, Center for Place, Culture and Politics (CPCP), and Social Practice (CP). To learn more about Nerve Macaspac, please visit his website<http://nervemacaspac.com/>. Read More<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/faculty/core-faculty/nerve-macaspac> Core Faculty<https://example.com/> [Dr. Vikki Terrile]<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/faculty/core-faculty/vikki-terrile> Dr. Vikki Terrile Dr. Vikki Terrile accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at GSLIS starting Fall 2023. Academic Statement: My primary area of research is family homelessness and its intersection with libraries and education. I began this work as a public librarian doing outreach to family shelters in New York City and have continued to investigate the provision of library services to people of all ages experiencing homelessness. My dissertation research explored how youth services librarians in the United States understand “the library” and “the homeless” as symbolic objects in the hope of explaining why targeted outreach and other services to families that are homeless are rare in public libraries. I found that even youth services librarians understand “the homeless” primarily as adults with mental health, substance abuse, and hygiene challenges, in keeping with the broader social context that allows child and family homelessness to be ignored. This project built on an earlier study that used interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore how librarians who work with families in homeless situations understand and experience that work. In my interviews with participants, I learned that the librarians felt deep professional and moral responsibility for doing this work, but felt unsupported by the profession and in their individual libraries. Additionally, the librarians both understood the causes of family homelessness in the United States and judged the families they worked with in ways consistent with prevailing cultural beliefs around homelessness and poverty. Other research I’ve conducted in this area looked at if and how homeless shelter providers receive library services from their local public libraries, how community college faculty teach homelessness as a curricular topic, and how school district homeless liaisons support students’ transitions from high school to college. Beyond my research work around homelessness and poverty, I have interest in information behavior, especially embodied information practices. My first CUNY research grant explored how performers and artisan vendors at Renaissance Faires find and use information in their work. Findings from this study revealed that the participants use embodied, self-taught information practices, and also exhibit protective behaviors around certain aspects of their work, in line with Elfreda Chatman’s theories of information poverty. These findings situated Renaissance Faire performers and artisan vendors in the larger world of contingent workers who must navigate the conflict between their own expert power and the reward/coercive power of management, which often results in information being denied or withheld. As a lifelong crafter and maker, I am also interested in how making is portrayed in popular culture. I recently published a book chapter on how making is used as acts of love and resistance by professional and amateur craftspeople in the Disney Star Wars universe, and am exploring how similar themes are revealed in the animated sitcom, Bob’s Burgers. Read More<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/faculty/core-faculty/vikki-terrile> Adjunct Faculty<https://example.com/> [Prof. Natalie Milbrodt]<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/faculty/adjuncts/natalie-milbrodt> Prof. Natalie Milbrodt Natalie Milbrodt taught LBSCI 701: Fundamentals of Library and Information Science in Fall 2023. Academic Statement: I believe in the power of personal narrative to tell larger human stories that connect us to one another and I always bring the lived experiences of my students, our classroom guests, and myself into dialogue with the concepts and practices in our coursework. Stories help us learn, remember, and find meaning. The study of Library and Information Science is an excellent foundation for anyone interested in preserving and expanding knowledge to enrich the quality of our lives as individuals and societies. I am an information professional and content developer with over two decades of experience working in small business, academic, cultural heritage and library settings. I currently manage the Metadata Services division within the Queens Public Library’s Technical Services department. I oversee archival digitization and the creation and management of metadata for the library's physical and digital collections. This includes the preservation of intangible cultural heritage and local history on behalf of the library's community-driven digital archives initiative, the Queens Memory Project, which I founded in 2010. The program was recognized in 2012 by the ALA Association for Library Collections & Technical Services with an Outstanding Collaboration Citation, in 2014 by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York with an Educational Use of Archives Award, and in 2019 by the New York State Archives for Excellence in Documenting New York’s History. I hold an Interdisciplinary Humanities bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and a master's degree from Queens College in Library and Information Studies with a concentration in Archives and Cultural Heritage. I currently serve on the Oral History Association’s Metadata Task Force, responsible for the creation of the OHA Metadata Toolkit, designed to help teams working at all scales and stages of an oral history project’s lifecycle to determine what information is important to preserve about their collections. I proudly serve as an advisory board member for New York State Historical Records, Design Dream Lab, The Municipal Art Society of New York’s Enduring Culture Initiative, and Wikitongues. Read More<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/faculty/adjuncts/natalie-milbrodt> NEW COURSES FOR SPRING 2024 [Digital Humanities]<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/news-events/2023/new-class-on-digital…> Digital Humanities This course examines the history, methods, tools, and scholarly practices of teaching and research in the digital humanities (DH), including ways in which the library can engage with, enhance, and support those activities. The course will focus on digital humanities as a burgeoning field in its own right, as well as the development of digital methods in specific disciplines within the humanities. Students will consider their role as information professionals in the creation, cleaning, storage, and dissemination of digital humanities datasets and research projects, as well as gain hands-on experience with some of the tools and methods used in these activities. Students in this course will have the opportunity to both study DH as a field, as well as create their own digital projects using DH methods. They will learn techniques to identify potential datasets, collect that data, clean and prepare it for analysis, and to identify appropriate tools and methods to answer DH research questions using data. Additionally, we will engage specifically with the role that the library and larger information professions play with regard to the collection, storage, and curation both of data with the potential for use in DH work, as well as the broad range of deliverables and project types that can result from DH research. Read More<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/news-events/2023/new-class-on-digital…> [Bibliotherapy]<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/news-events/2023/new-class-on-bibliot…> Bibliotherapy This course examines the history, methods, tools, and clinical practices of incorporating the use of literature, poetry, and expressive writing into healing practice. The course will teach a brief history of bibliotherapy as a modality that uses literature as a tool to promote mental health and overall wellness. Students will consider their role as information professionals in prescribing books to meet the emotional needs of patrons by assessing intersectional identity, reading style, genre preferences, and more. Students in this course will have the opportunity to both study bibliotherapy as a treatment modality, as well as curate their own book prescriptions for patrons based on unique case studies spanning the human life cycle stages. They will learn techniques to engage and speak with patrons about emotional challenges, book match based on a patron’s unique needs and intersectional identity, and confidently curate a list of go to texts for different life ailments in the tradition of bibliotherapy. Read More<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/news-events/2023/new-class-on-bibliot…> GSLIS RESEARCH IN PRAXIS DISCUSSION SERIES This series is brought to you by the GSLIS Research and Pedagogy Committee. Speakers for Fall 2023 included: Dr. Leila Walker, Digital Scholarship and Humanities Librarian at Queens College, “An Introduction to Accessible Digital Pedagogy” Dr. Dan Woulfin, GSLIS Alumnus and Data Librarian, “Touring the Invisible College: Using Bibliographic Networks to Measure Influence and Impact in Academic Topics” Dr. Vikki Terrile, Assistant Professor, GSLIS, CUNY, “More than a Problem?: A Systematic Review of the Homelessness and Libraries Literature” [GSLIS RESEARCH IN PRAXIS DISCUSSION SERIES] FACULTY RESEARCH & ACCOMPLISHMENTS Prof. Emily Drabinski was named to Out100 2023's Most Impactful and Influential LGBTQ+ People<https://www.out.com/out100/storytellers/emily-drabinski>. Prof. Bill Gordh’s World Music Institute podcast “Folktales” won Gold at the 2023 Signal Awards<https://www.signalaward.com/winners/details/#world-music-institute/wmi-folk…>. Dr. S.E. Hackney will be participating in CUNY's Faculty Fellowship Publishing Program (FFPP) in Spring 2024. "The Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (FFPP) is sponsored by University Human Resources in order to advance CUNY’s institutional commitment to diversity. This University-wide initiative assists full-time untenured CUNY faculty (assistant professors) in the design and execution of writing projects essential to progress toward tenure." Dr. Hackney will be using the program to work on the proposal packet for a book based on their dissertation research entitled "The Birth of Digital Text." Prof. Jess DeCourcy Hinds published an article in School Library Journal. Hinds, J. D. (2023). “‘That’s How I Feel!’ Visual books help teens grapple with emotions and mental health. School Library Journal, September 7, 2023. https://www.slj.com/story/Thats-How-I-Feel-Visual-Books-Help-Teens-Grapple-… Prof. Arlene Laverde published the article in Young Adult Library Services and Knowledge Quest. Laverde, A. (2023). Librarians of New York take a stand against book banning. Young Adult Library Services, 20(3/4). Dr. Nerve Macaspac published “Indigenous Geopolitics: Creating Indigenous Spaces of Community Self-Protection and Peace amid Violent Conflict” (2023), which appears in the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence. He also published a book review, “Maria Ressa and the Fight for Facts” (2023), which appears in the Human Rights Review. Prof. Macaspac and Prof. Lara Saguisag of New York University (NYU) launched Here Lies Love in Critical Context: A Public Syllabus<https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ITevDcIkKr0-xSN4itUrlCOeB_wudWstScfQyAxXnrB…>. Compiled in response to the Broadway show Here Lies Love, the syllabus delves into the complex and painful history of the Philippines under the Marcos dictatorship. Finally, Prof. Macaspac and colleagues from SUNY and CUNY received generous funding from the Henry Luce Foundation for the “Building the Southeast Asian Consortium at SUNY and CUNY,” a multi-year initiative to build Southeast Asian Studies in New York’s public universities. Dr. Joe Sánchez was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Library of Congress Literacy Awards<https://www.loc.gov/programs/library-of-congress-literacy-awards/about-this…> and to the Accreditation Committee of the American Library Association<https://www.ala.org/aboutala/committees/ala/ala-coa>. Dr. Nafiz Shuva has been elected Vice-President/President-Elect of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS)<https://cais-acsi.ca/>, Chair of the American Library Association, International Relation Round Table (IRRT) Membership Committee<https://www.ala.org/rt/irrt/irrtcommittees/irrtmemb/membership>, and a member of the International Federation of Libraries and Information Institute (IFLA) North American Regional Division<https://www.ifla.org/units/north-america-regional-division/committee/> Dr. Vikki Terrile published an article in The Library Quarterly. Terrile, V. C. (2023). It’s meaningful work, but it’s “Really, Really Hard”: librarians’ understanding of their work with families experiencing homelessness. The Library Quarterly, 93(3), 333-351. https://doi.org/10.1086/725066 Dr. Shuheng Wu published an article in Cataloging & Classification. Wu, S. (2023). Implementing bibliographic enhancement data in academic library catalogs: An empirical study. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 61(3/4), 308-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/0<https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2023.2224781> Prof. Simone Yearwood has been named 2023 Academic/Special Librarian of the year by the New York Library Association<https://www.nyla.org/librarian-of-the-year/>. STUDENT AND ALUMNI ACCOMPLISHMENTS GSLIS Library Media Specialist alumnus Amanda Birro published an article in the Spring/Summer 2023 issue of Young Adult Library Services. Birro, A. (2023). To genrefy or not to genrefy. Young Adult Library Services, 20(3/4), 53–58. http://yalsjournal.ala.org/vol-20-no-3-4-spring-summer-2022/page-c1?m=53337… GSLIS student Sarah Pousty published an article in School Library Journal. Pousty, S. (2023). How to read wordless picture books with children. School Library Journal, September 6, 2023, https://www.slj.com/story/newsfeatures/How-to-Read-Wordless-Picture-Books-w… GSLIS student Oscar Zamora Flores presented a poster titled “Didactic booklet on climate change: a long term risk assessment to protect archives” that won “Most Outstanding Poster, All Categories and Themes Combined” at the 2023 International Council on Archives in Abu Dhabi. JOB FAIR - Unfiltered: A Career & Hiring Event [JOB FAIR - Unfiltered: A Career & Hiring Event] On November 28th, The Queens College Graduate School of Library & Information Studies Program hosted an in-person career event and networking opportunity called "Unfiltered: A Career & Hiring Event" for students and alumni. The "Unfiltered" event was a success in connecting students with potential employers, offering them valuable insights into career opportunities within the library and information sciences field. Impressively, over forty-two students participated in the event, and ten out of the twelve libraries and archives in attendance shared job openings. Students expressed their gratitude and enthusiasm during the event as they engaged with HR recruiters and library directors, delving into discussions about various career opportunities. It was heartening to witness the positive interaction between the students and the professionals present. Both Human Resources directors and Library directors expressed their happiness in meeting the students and participating in this career-oriented event. The success of "Unfiltered" highlights the importance of such events in bridging the gap between students and potential employers. For more information feel free to contact Professor Kim McNeil-Capers<mailto:Kim.Mcneilcapers@qc.cuny.edu> STAY CONNECTED WITH GSLIS ALUMNI COMMUNITY HUB [QCGS:LIS Alumni accomplishments]<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslisalumni/accomplishments> We want to know how well you are doing. Your accomplishments will encourage each other as well as current and future GSLIS students. Please share with us<https://sites.google.com/d/1nu3dUysmN5jhHaDPqP42CH7S8Xdm01RS/p/1voWv6U1XZ_s…> your good news. See Recent Accomplishments<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslisalumni/accomplishments> [QC GSLIS Logo]<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/> Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Rosenthal Library Room 254, Queens College, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Queens, NY 11367-1597 Phone: 718.997.3790<tel:7189973790> | Fax: 718.997.3797 [linkedin]<https://www.linkedin.com/school/qcgslis> [Web Site] <https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/> [Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/QCGSLIS> [E-Mail] <mailto:qc_gslis@qc.cuny.edu> [Designed with BEE]<https://www.designedwithbee.com/?utm_source=editor&utm_medium=bee_pro&utm_c…> Designed with BEE<https://www.designedwithbee.com/?utm_source=editor&utm_medium=bee_pro&utm_c…>

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Gslisadjuncts Fall 2023 End of Semester and Grade Rosters
by Esther Van Sertima 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Good morning all, In case you did not receive it, please see the email below with the upcoming grade roster deadlines. Best, Esther VanSertima Administrative Coordinator Student Success Initiatives Dean of Social Sciences Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Rosenthal 254 (remote Th/F) Tel: 718.997.3790 From: Elizabeth D'Amico-Ramirez/Associate Director of the Registrar/QC Hub <sima(a)queenscollegecuny.ccsend.com> On Behalf Of Elizabeth D'Amico-Ramirez/Associate Director of the Registrar/QC Hub Sent: Monday, December 11, 2023 9:02 AM To: Esther Van Sertima <evansertima(a)qc.cuny.edu> Subject: Fall 2023 End of Semester and Grade Rosters [https://r20.rs6.net/on.jsp?ca=209da0a1-0dc6-4f13-ae29-970f1a7ea7de&a=110303…] [https://files.constantcontact.com/72c72f1d001/eeb1fe04-69ee-4b73-9298-1bf5b…] From Elizabeth D'Amico-Ramirez, Associate Director of the Registrar, QC Hub: As the Fall 2023 semester comes to an end, I would like to remind you of the following dates: · Monday, December 11: Deadline for students to officially withdraw and to submit the P/NC grading option for the Fall 2023 term. · Thursday, December 14: Fall 2023 grade rosters open. · Wednesday, December 27: Fall 2023 grade submission deadline for both graduate and undergraduate courses. Queens College employs several grades, and it is important to assign the appropriate grade for each student’s performance and attendance. You are advised to visit https://www.qc.cuny.edu/aac/academic-and-grading-policies/ <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001XBoElNgyNpriNYVmo1nVlM3eGk7xVVuT6uR7kLSjHzI…> for further details about QC’s grading policies. We encourage you to test your CUNYfirst login credentials and resolve any issues immediately. For technical support with CUNYfirst, please contact the ITS Help Desk<https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001XBoElNgyNpriNYVmo1nVlM3eGk7xVVuT6uR7kLSjHzI…>. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. For questions about grading policies or procedures, please make a request in Fresh Service<https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001XBoElNgyNpriNYVmo1nVlM3eGk7xVVuT6uR7kLSjHzI…>. [https://files.constantcontact.com/72c72f1d001/4cf4a60b-f6b0-441c-ac17-21b19…] This mail was sent by an automated process. Do not reply to this mail, which cannot accept replies. At the bottom of this email, you will see Constant Contact language that offers the option of using "SafeUnsubscribe" to remove yourself from the email list. We strongly advise you not to unsubscribe because QCmailers may contain critical, timely information you need, such as CUNYfirst attendance and grading information for faculty; Human Resources announcements for faculty and staff; and announcements from the Registrar or Bursar for students. This information may not be communicated in any other way but through QCmailers. Queens College, CUNY | 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Queens, NY 11367 Unsubscribe evansertima(a)qc.cuny.edu<https://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=0017wQOe3ygv3Ag6mWSt6yjlQ%3D&…> Update Profile<https://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=oo&m=0017wQOe3ygv3Ag6mWSt6yjlQ%3D&…> | Constant Contact Data Notice<https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001XBoElNgyNpriNYVmo1nVlM3eGk7xVVuT6uR7kLSjHzI…> Sent by qcmailer(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:qcmailer@qc.cuny.edu> powered by [Trusted Email from Constant Contact - Try it FREE today.]<https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001XBoElNgyNpriNYVmo1nVlM3eGk7xVVuT6uR7kLSjHzI…> Try email marketing for free today!<https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001XBoElNgyNpriNYVmo1nVlM3eGk7xVVuT6uR7kLSjHzI…>

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Gslisadjuncts Adobe Creative Cloud Access Spring 2022
by Matthew Ross 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

Hello everyone, Hoping your semester is running smoothly. I am here to inform you that it is possible to approve your Spring 2024 courses to give your students access to Adobe Creative Suite<https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html> (now transitioned to Adobe Creative Cloud<https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html>). This access for your students will only last per semester and the request must go to ITS. However, to save you some work I can make the request for you for the upcoming Spring 2024 semester. If you would like to give your students access to Adobe Creative Suite<https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html> please fill out this form with your course information and I will make the request for you: https://forms.office.com/r/L3vRm4ZqPC . This form will close December 21st, 2023 @ 5pm. Best, Matthew

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