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Gslisadjuncts May 16th Capstone Symposium: MLS/MA Dual Degree in Library Science and History
by Johnathan Thayer 13 May '24

13 May '24

Colleagues, Information is attached about the 2024 MLS/MA Dual Degree in Library Science and History Capstone Symposium. Graduating students will be presenting their History and LBSCI capstone research with time for Q&A and discussion. Please join us if you are able. May 16, 2024 2:00pm – 5:00pm Rosenthal Library, President Conference Room 1 Queens College – City University of New York Flushing, NY 11367 Johnathan Thayer, PhD, MLS (he/him) Assistant Professor Vice Chair (acting) Coordinator of MLS/MA Dual Degrees Graduate School of Library and Information Studies<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis> Queens College, City University of New York

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Gslisadjuncts Spam alert!
by James Lowry 28 Apr '24

28 Apr '24

Hi all, Please disregard any emails that look like they’re from me, asking you to buy anything. Best James

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Gslisadjuncts Guest speaker honoraria
by James Lowry 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

Colleagues, At today’s faculty meeting, the GSLIS faculty voted to adopt the following policy on guest speaker honoraria, which will take effect from Fall 2024. The following text has been added to the GSLIS Department Handbook<https://docs.google.com/document/d/169mN26sndTWdeYZA4RkIy0PIKhS8CEMCu8jAUKA…> (in preparation). Please let me know if you have any questions or see any improvements that can be made to the text. Best James Guest Speakers Faculty may invite guest speakers to class to support the delivery of the learning outcomes for that session. Each synchronous section of each class is allocated $150 for guest speaker honoraria each semester. Asynchronous classes are not eligible for honoraria. Honoraria may only be paid to non-academics such as librarians, archivists, activists, artists, etc. How much to pay each guest speaker from the total $150 is at the discretion of the instructor. For example, the instructor may offer $150 to one speaker, $50 to three speakers, etc. For guest speakers to be paid, they must send an invoice and a completed W9 to Esther Van Sertima. Invoices are approved by the Chair before going to the Queens College Foundation for payment. Faculty are advised to let their guest speakers know when first inviting them to speak that Queens College Foundation is typically short staffed and therefore very slow to pay. This policy is subject to change in line with the department’s finances.

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Gslisadjuncts Invitation - Reception to mark the publication of Johnathan Thayer's "Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in US Ports: Sailors Ashore"
by James Lowry 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

The Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College, City University of New York invites you to a reception to mark the publication of Dr. Johnathan Thayer’s book Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports: Sailors Ashore [Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports: Sailors Ashore | SpringerLink] Thursday, April 18 5:30pm President’s Conference Room 2 (RO-525) Fifth Floor, Benjamin Rosenthal Library Queens College Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports: Sailors Ashore The forces of industrialization that transformed ship technology simultaneously transformed the working-class lives of merchant seamen, intensifying class conflict and producing collective networks of subversion and resistance within the urban borderland spaces of sailortowns in which sailors fought to maintain control over their mobility, agency, and rights. Given their social, cultural, economic, geographic, and legal marginalization, merchant seamen have occupied essential roles at the parameters of US urban, legal, labor, immigration, and wartime history. The constellation of these histories, embedded in the encounters and negotiations that merchant seamen provoked along the nation’s coastlines and sailortowns, collectively represents a unique and essential perspective on the history of US citizenship. These arguments are advanced by Johnathan Thayer in his book Citizenship, Subversion, and Surveillance in U.S. Ports: Sailors Ashore, available in hardcover and ebook formats from Springer: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-45618-3 Dr. Johnathan Thayer is Assistant Professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, City University of New York (CUNY). He holds a PhD in History from the CUNY Graduate Center and an MLS from Queens College. He is a former Graduate Fellow in Labor Studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and is a recipient of the E. P. Thompson Fellowship in United States History. Dr. Thayer is a maritime studies researcher and a public history and archival studies educator. His previous works include the co-edited volume Negotiating Masculinities and Modernity in the Maritime World, 1815-1940 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). He has worked in maritime libraries and archives for more than twenty years and has sailed as a Voyager on the nineteenth-century whaleship Charles W. Morgan, as oral history interviewer on the liberty ship SS John W. Brown, and as Ship’s Librarian on SUNY Maritime’s training ship Empire State VI. 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 FW: For Your Faculty: Paid Prof. Dev. for OER in June
by James Lowry 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

From: James Mellone <James.Mellone(a)qc.cuny.edu> Date: Monday, April 15, 2024 at 1:38 PM To: Alexander Ryba <Alexander.Ryba(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Alvaro Fernandez <Alvaro.Fernandez(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Amy Herzog <aherzog(a)gc.cuny.edu>, Antonio Gonzalez <Antonio.Gonzalez(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Cathy Savagedunn <Cathy.Savagedunn(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Christopher Winks <Christopher.Winks(a)qc.cuny.edu>, David Gerwin <David.Gerwin(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Francois Pierre-Louis <Francois.Pierrelouis(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Gerasimus Katsan <Gerasimus.Katsan(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Glenn Burger <Glenn.Burger(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Igor Kuskovsky <Igor.Kuskovsky(a)qc.cuny.edu>, James Lowry <James.Lowry(a)qc.cuny.edu>, James Mellone <James.Mellone(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Jeff Beeler <Jeff.Beeler(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Jeffrey Bird <Jeffrey.Bird(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Jianbo Liu <Jianbo.Liu(a)qc.cuny.edu>, John Pellitteri <John.Pellitteri(a)qc.cuny.edu>, John Terilla <JTerilla(a)gc.cuny.edu>, Julia Sneeringer <Julia.Sneeringer(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Larissa Swedell <Larissa.Swedell(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Meghan Healey <Meghan.Healey(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Melissa Checker <Melissa.Checker(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Michael Lipsey <Michael.Lipsey(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Michael Newman <Michael.Newman(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Mihaela Robila <Mihaela.Robila(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Qianyun (Ivy) Huang <Qianyun.Huang(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Shige Song <Shige.Song(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Stephen Grover <Stephen.Grover(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Theodore Kesler <Theodore.Kesler(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Yunzhong Shu <Yunzhong.Shu(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Zadia Feliciano <Zadia.Feliciano(a)qc.cuny.edu> Cc: Leila Walker <Leila.Walker(a)qc.cuny.edu> Subject: For Your Faculty: Paid Prof. Dev. for OER in June Dear Chairs, I would appreciate your sharing the message below with your faculty. The Library’s OER Coordinator Dr. Leila Walker, Digital Scholarship & Humanities Librarian, is announcing a paid OER seminar for faculty in June. All faculty, including adjuncts, are eligible to apply. Thanks. Jim James Tasato Mellone, M.A., M.L.S. Interim Chief Librarian & Chair Queens College Library Rosenthal 325 / 718-997-3623 Queens College, City University of New York Interim Coordinator of Collection Management, History & Classics Librarian Associate Professor of Library, Adjunct Faculty in Library and Information Studies Paid Professional Development Opportunity: Open Educational Resources Summer Training Participate in an OER Faculty Fellowship summer program and earn $2,000. Applications due May 10. Apply today<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=s_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2Jq…> Nearly forty percent of CUNY students come from households with annual incomes of less than $20,000. For many of our students, the cost of textbooks can be a steep barrier to academic success. Students often choose not to register for courses that require expensive textbooks, or fail courses simply because they cannot afford the materials. These patterns can lead to increased enrollment time and reduced rates of degree completion. You can help! Queens College faculty have saved our students over $2 million in textbook fees since 2018 by using Open Educational Resources, or OER. Learn more about OER<https://qc-cuny.libguides.com/oer-ztc>. This summer, the Queens College Library is pleased to offer an accelerated OER Fellowship Program. Through this program, held over four days in June, OER Fellows learn the fundamental principles of OER and open pedagogy, develop technical skills to create and curate accessible course content, organize cohesive and coherent materials tied to overarching learning objectives, and apply rigorous assessment standards to identify existing resources for classroom use. Faculty Fellows receive $2,000 in compensation. Faculty Fellows commit to: Participate in four 90-minute remote workshops June 3-6 Develop a zero-textbook-cost course Teach at least one section of the OER or ZTC course in the following academic year Submit openly licensed course materials to one of our institutional repositories by August 27 Write a brief (200-500 word) end-of-fellowship narrative Through the Fellowship program, faculty learn to: Define and distinguish between open educational resources and zero textbook cost materials Find and evaluate existing open educational resources Assemble organized and easily modified syllabi Navigate intellectual property, fair use, copyright, and Creative Commons licenses Create accessible resources Explore the principles and practice of open pedagogy Enact social justice by reducing economic barriers to student success Faculty Fellows make the resources they create openly available for other faculty to adopt, and we are happy to be able to offer modest funding to each faculty member the first time they teach a ZTC section of a course using a Fellow's materials. Apply today<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=s_BgbwZfCU6XFZiduozH2Jq…> =================== Dr. Leila Walker Assistant Professor Humanities & Digital Scholarship Librarian Queens College CUNY Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library Room 346 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Queens, NY 11367-1597 leila.walker(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:leila.walker@qc.cuny.edu>

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