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Gslisadjuncts FW: Elimination of IMLS funding for LIS research
by James Lowry 22 Mar '25

22 Mar '25

From: Gavin Baker <gbaker(a)alawash.org> Date: Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM To: James Lowry <James.Lowry(a)qc.cuny.edu> Subject: Elimination of IMLS funding for LIS research Dear Director Lowry, I’m reaching out from the American Library Association’s Public Policy & Advocacy office. On March 14, President Trump signed an executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the only federal agency dedicated to supporting America’s libraries, and a primary funder of LIS faculty and research. If allowed to stand, this will result in the loss of all IMLS funding for library schools and scholarship. We urge your faculty, staff, and students to join with ALA in opposing this order and advocating for continued funding for IMLS. Here are some initial steps: * Please take and share ALA’s action alert<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-page?c…> and encourage your colleagues to contact their Congressmembers in support of IMLS. * Please like/share the action alert on social media: Facebook<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.facebook.com/AmericanLibraryAssociat…> | LinkedIn<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.linkedin.com/posts/american-library-…> | Instagram<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.instagram.com/p/DHUKk-QO2mz/?hl=en&i…> | Bluesky<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/bsky.app/profile/amlibraryassoc.bsky.soc…> | Threads<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.threads.net/@americanlibraryassociat…> * Additional resources: * ALA statement on White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ala.org/news/2025/03/ala-statement-w…> * ALA warns new IMLS acting director not to cut programs required by law<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ala.org/news/2025/03/ala-warns-new-i…> * FAQ: Executive Order Targeting IMLS<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ala.org/faq-executive-order-targetin…> * How ALA is responding to the executive order<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-…> * Sign up for future action alerts from ALA<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/confirmsubscription.com/h/i/463208600EB4…> * Share this information with your university’s government relations office Thank you, Gavin Baker Deputy Director, Public Policy & Government Relations American Library Association gbaker(a)alawash.org<mailto:gbaker@alawash.org> (202) 403-8209

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Gslisadjuncts FW: CETLL Teaching & Learning Showcase: Call for Proposals
by James Lowry 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

From: Patricia Price <patricia.price(a)qc.cuny.edu> Date: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM To: QC Chairs Spring 2025 <qcchairs(a)CUNY907.onmicrosoft.com> Cc: Bobbie Kabuto <Bobbie.Kabuto(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Daniel Weinstein <Daniel.Weinstein(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Kate Pechenkina <Kate.Pechenkina(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Simone Yearwood <Simone.Yearwood(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Soniya Munshi <Soniya.Munshi(a)qc.cuny.edu> Subject: Fw: CETLL Teaching & Learning Showcase: Call for Proposals Dear Chairs: please make sure your faculty are aware of this. During the time I've been at QC there has been much interest in reviving the teaching and learning showcase event. Thanks to Soniya Munshi for her leadership here! Thank you, Patricia Patricia Price, PhD (she/her/hers) Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Queens College, City University of New York [Professional Staff Congress | Queens College] [cid:cb633575-bcc1-4060-9253-e6abdca09b00] ________________________________ From: QNS qcctlonline <CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu> Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 12:40 PM Subject: CETLL Teaching & Learning Showcase: Call for Proposals [cid:6c474e90-4a48-41b0-aa32-decbbdac7901] Thank you for your past interest in CETLL events. CETLL is delighted to announce the return of the Teaching & Learning Showcase, a day-long event that centers innovative, equitable, and student-centered pedagogical practices and projects at Queens College. Date: May 2, 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. Location: TBA, in-person on campus The CALL FOR PROPOSALS for CETLL’s Teaching & Learning Showcase is now open! CETLL invites Queens College faculty members to share pedagogical practices that you have found to be effective and engaging for your students. If you have participated in any CETLL workshops, trainings, or seminars in the past, we invite you to share what you learned or developed through those experiences with this wider campus audience. We welcome proposals on teaching and learning matters that are important to you. We offer the following topics and questions for consideration: * Accessibility and Inclusivity in the Classroom: What pedagogical tools and strategies effectively support our classrooms to be more accessible and inclusive, particularly for our neurodivergent, multilingual, first-generation, transfer and/or low-income students? * Active Learning: What methods are we using in our classes to encourage students to engage in deep learning, including through opportunities to practice skills, solve problems, work with complex questions and concepts, and develop and express their ideas? * Grading and Feedback: How do our approaches to grading and assessment foster student growth and learning? How do we offer constructive feedback to our students across different courses, class sizes, and levels? * Generative AI: What are the ways we are engaging in discussion with our students about the growth of Generative AI? How are we responding to these developments through our curriculum design, assignments, and course policies? How do we use current discourse about Generative AI to open up dialogue about processes of teaching, learning, and the purpose of the classroom? * Instructional Technology: How does our use of technology-based tools support our efforts to grow student engagement, collaboration, and connection in our classes? What specific tools have been effective in meeting pedagogical goals, and how? * Community Well-being: What tools and strategies are we using to foster structures and cultures of wellness in our classroom, for our students as well as ourselves? How do we cultivate spaces in our classrooms that are able to engage in conflict and challenging dynamics without enabling harm? We welcome proposals that utilize any of the following formats: * Lightning Presentation (5 minutes): a format for a brief presentation that demonstrates a specific technology-based tool, shares an activity prompt, or otherwise showcases a specific teaching practice. * Individual Presentation (15 minutes): a format for faculty members to share strategies, tools, materials, and/or aspects of an effective teaching practice, including reflection and/or questions that have emerged. (*Please note that CETLL may group individual presentations that touch on similar themes into panels or roundtables.) * Panel Presentation or Roundtable (45 minutes): a format for several faculty members to share strategies, tools, materials, and/or aspects of an effective teaching practice, including reflection and/or questions that have emerged. The group can be made up of individual panelists or structured as a roundtable conversation among the participants. * Interactive Presentation or Workshop (30 minutes): a format for presenters to demonstrate a tool, activity, assignment or other teaching practice in a way that actively engages the audience. * Open format: We are open to other modes of sharing information and engaging in discussion at the Teaching & Learning Showcase. Please feel free to propose a different format and/or time allotment for your offering. Deadline for Proposals: 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025. Submit your proposal here: https://forms.office.com/r/0aAw07zq4x<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.office.com/r/0aAw07zq4x__;!!E8lrG…> Selected applicants will be notified on April 7, 2025. Please save the date May 2, 2025, in your calendar. Information: CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:CTLOnline@qc.cuny.edu> https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/teaching-and-learning-showcase

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Gslisadjuncts FW: Archives Open House 3/26
by James Lowry 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

From: Annie Tummino <atummino(a)qc.cuny.edu> Date: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM To: James Lowry <James.Lowry(a)qc.cuny.edu> Cc: Caitlin Waldron <Caitlin.Waldron(a)qc.cuny.edu> Subject: Archives Open House 3/26 --------------------------------- Faculty and Staff: Join Special Collections and Archives on Wednesday March 26th anytime between 12:15-2pm for an Open House in the Tanenbaum Room 300i, Rosenthal Library. Drop-in to view materials from newly processed collections, and brainstorm how you might use these materials in your teaching or research. Graduate Fellows and Archives staff will be on hand to answer questions. Tea and coffee will be served! The following collections will be highlighted: · Posters collection – Political posters from social movements of the 60s and 70s; World War II propaganda posters. Beautiful designs and compelling historical content. · Asian/American Center Records – Reports, publications, posters, and other materials documenting the history of this important Center at QC and in the larger community. · Edward Cohen Papers – Literary manuscripts highlighting the creative process of gay author, playwright, and director, Edward M. Cohen, a QC alum and the award-winning author of Before Stonewall. RSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/rK7TcnEbcG Please share with other faculty that may be interested in learning more about the archives here at Queens College by forwarding this email and sharing the attached flier/image. Questions? Email qc.archives(a)qc.cuny.edu. -- Annie Tummino (she/her) Head of Special Collections & Archives Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library Queens College, CUNY

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Gslisadjuncts Fwd: CETLL Teaching & Learning Showcase: Call for Proposals
by James Lowry 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

Begin forwarded message: From: QNS qcctlonline <CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu> Date: March 4, 2025 at 12:41:06 GMT-5 Subject: CETLL Teaching & Learning Showcase: Call for Proposals Thank you for your past interest in CETLL events. CETLL is delighted to announce the return of the Teaching & Learning Showcase, a day-long event that centers innovative, equitable, and student-centered pedagogical practices and projects at Queens College. Date: May 2, 2025 Time: 9:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. Location: TBA, in-person on campus The CALL FOR PROPOSALS for CETLL’s Teaching & Learning Showcase is now open! CETLL invites Queens College faculty members to share pedagogical practices that you have found to be effective and engaging for your students. If you have participated in any CETLL workshops, trainings, or seminars in the past, we invite you to share what you learned or developed through those experiences with this wider campus audience. We welcome proposals on teaching and learning matters that are important to you. We offer the following topics and questions for consideration: * Accessibility and Inclusivity in the Classroom: What pedagogical tools and strategies effectively support our classrooms to be more accessible and inclusive, particularly for our neurodivergent, multilingual, first-generation, transfer and/or low-income students? * Active Learning: What methods are we using in our classes to encourage students to engage in deep learning, including through opportunities to practice skills, solve problems, work with complex questions and concepts, and develop and express their ideas? * Grading and Feedback: How do our approaches to grading and assessment foster student growth and learning? How do we offer constructive feedback to our students across different courses, class sizes, and levels? * Generative AI: What are the ways we are engaging in discussion with our students about the growth of Generative AI? How are we responding to these developments through our curriculum design, assignments, and course policies? How do we use current discourse about Generative AI to open up dialogue about processes of teaching, learning, and the purpose of the classroom? * Instructional Technology: How does our use of technology-based tools support our efforts to grow student engagement, collaboration, and connection in our classes? What specific tools have been effective in meeting pedagogical goals, and how? * Community Well-being: What tools and strategies are we using to foster structures and cultures of wellness in our classroom, for our students as well as ourselves? How do we cultivate spaces in our classrooms that are able to engage in conflict and challenging dynamics without enabling harm? We welcome proposals that utilize any of the following formats: * Lightning Presentation (5 minutes): a format for a brief presentation that demonstrates a specific technology-based tool, shares an activity prompt, or otherwise showcases a specific teaching practice. * Individual Presentation (15 minutes): a format for faculty members to share strategies, tools, materials, and/or aspects of an effective teaching practice, including reflection and/or questions that have emerged. (*Please note that CETLL may group individual presentations that touch on similar themes into panels or roundtables.) * Panel Presentation or Roundtable (45 minutes): a format for several faculty members to share strategies, tools, materials, and/or aspects of an effective teaching practice, including reflection and/or questions that have emerged. The group can be made up of individual panelists or structured as a roundtable conversation among the participants. * Interactive Presentation or Workshop (30 minutes): a format for presenters to demonstrate a tool, activity, assignment or other teaching practice in a way that actively engages the audience. * Open format: We are open to other modes of sharing information and engaging in discussion at the Teaching & Learning Showcase. Please feel free to propose a different format and/or time allotment for your offering. Deadline for Proposals: 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025. Submit your proposal here: https://forms.office.com/r/0aAw07zq4x<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.office.com/r/0aAw07zq4x__;!!E8lrG…> Selected applicants will be notified on April 7, 2025. Please save the date May 2, 2025, in your calendar. Information: CTLOnline(a)qc.cuny.edu<mailto:CTLOnline@qc.cuny.edu> https://www.qc.cuny.edu/cetll/teaching-and-learning-showcase

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Gslisadjuncts FW: Digital Methods for Historical Inquiry Workshop Series at the New Media Lab
by James Lowry 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

------------------------- The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is pleased to announce that this spring, the New Media Lab<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/newmedialab.cuny.edu/__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!s…> will host a workshop series on digital methods for historical inquiry led by Stefano Morello and guests from the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/__;!!E8lrGBvW!u…> and the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/__;!!E8lrGBvW!uE…>. Open to students and faculty from all disciplines, each session is designed to provide hands-on experience with digital tools and methods for researching, interpreting, and teaching history. Sessions are limited to 15 participants and will be held in the New Media Lab (Room 7388.01). You can register here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/forms/d/11WFjF9Aw3lzYpny…>. As a reminder, we’re also hosting a series this semester on jumpstarting your multimedia projects. Learn more on our website<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/newmedialab.cuny.edu/get-involved/__;!!G…>. If you have any questions, please email Stefano Morello<mailto:smorello@gradcenter.cuny.edu>. Wednesday, March 19, 3:00-4.30 pm Hacking AI for Historical Research: Ethics, Methods, and Applications (co-hosted with the TLC) Led by Zach Muhlbauer Are you curious about using artificial intelligence to investigate and interpret historical materials? In this workshop, we'll demo accessible tools for working with both unstructured data and archived materials. We'll discuss practical and theoretical limitations, such as hallucinations and biases in training data, and how these tools can support, but must not replace, traditional research methods. No prior technical experience required. Monday, March 31, 5:00–6:30 pm Teaching with Omeka: Building Digital Collections in the Classroom (co-hosted with GCDI) Led by Maggie Schreiner and Stefano Morello Would you like to create a digital archive or teach students how to design online exhibits? In this workshop, we’ll explore ways to leverage Omeka<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/omeka.org/__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!sEEjdtoLnY1G…>, an open-source platform for managing and presenting digital collections, as a tool for teaching best practices in archival research, curating online exhibits, and designing collaborative assignments using primary sources. Educators interested in teaching digital literacy, historical inquiry, and digital storytelling through hands-on projects are especially encouraged to join. Thursday, April 10, 5:00-6:30 pm Distant Reading Historical Texts with Voyant Tools Led by Stefano Morello Are you trying to find ways to discover patterns in all the textual sources you have collected? Curious about text analysis but not sure where to start? This workshop introduces Voyant Tools<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/voyant-tools.org/__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!sEEjd…>, a user-friendly platform that helps identify patterns in historical texts like speeches, letters, and literature. Together, we’ll explore how to visualize word frequencies, track themes over time, and make sense of textual data in new ways. No prior experience required. --- Stefano Morello Assistant Director for Digital Projects American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ashp.cuny.edu/__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!sEEjdtoL…> The Graduate Center, City University of New York Room 7301.12 ________________________________ From: Stefano Morello <smorello(a)gradcenter.cuny.edu> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2025 1:54 PM To: Jason Nielsen <jnielsen(a)gc.cuny.edu> Subject: Digital Methods for Historical Inquiry Workshop Series at the New Media Lab Dear Jason, Could you please share the announcement below with students and faculty in DH/DaV? Many thanks! Stefano ------------------------- The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is pleased to announce that this spring, the New Media Lab<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/newmedialab.cuny.edu/__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!s…> will host a workshop series on digital methods for historical inquiry led by Stefano Morello and guests from the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/__;!!E8lrGBvW!u…> and the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/__;!!E8lrGBvW!uE…>. Open to students and faculty from all disciplines, each session is designed to provide hands-on experience with digital tools and methods for researching, interpreting, and teaching history. Sessions are limited to 15 participants and will be held in the New Media Lab (Room 7388.01). You can register here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/docs.google.com/forms/d/11WFjF9Aw3lzYpny…>. As a reminder, we’re also hosting a series this semester on jumpstarting your multimedia projects. Learn more on our website<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/newmedialab.cuny.edu/get-involved/__;!!G…>. If you have any questions, please email Stefano Morello<mailto:smorello@gradcenter.cuny.edu>. Wednesday, March 19, 3:00-4.30 pm Hacking AI for Historical Research: Ethics, Methods, and Applications (co-hosted with the TLC) Led by Zach Muhlbauer Are you curious about using artificial intelligence to investigate and interpret historical materials? In this workshop, we'll demo accessible tools for working with both unstructured data and archived materials. We'll discuss practical and theoretical limitations, such as hallucinations and biases in training data, and how these tools can support, but must not replace, traditional research methods. No prior technical experience required. Monday, March 31, 5:00–6:30 pm Teaching with Omeka: Building Digital Collections in the Classroom (co-hosted with GCDI) Led by Maggie Schreiner and Stefano Morello Would you like to create a digital archive or teach students how to design online exhibits? In this workshop, we’ll explore ways to leverage Omeka<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/omeka.org/__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!sEEjdtoLnY1G…>, an open-source platform for managing and presenting digital collections, as a tool for teaching best practices in archival research, curating online exhibits, and designing collaborative assignments using primary sources. Educators interested in teaching digital literacy, historical inquiry, and digital storytelling through hands-on projects are especially encouraged to join. Thursday, April 10, 5:00-6:30 pm Distant Reading Historical Texts with Voyant Tools Led by Stefano Morello Are you trying to find ways to discover patterns in all the textual sources you have collected? Curious about text analysis but not sure where to start? This workshop introduces Voyant Tools<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/voyant-tools.org/__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!sEEjd…>, a user-friendly platform that helps identify patterns in historical texts like speeches, letters, and literature. Together, we’ll explore how to visualize word frequencies, track themes over time, and make sense of textual data in new ways. No prior experience required. --- Stefano Morello Assistant Director for Digital Projects American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ashp.cuny.edu/__;!!GIqKXF0_-xZi!sEEjdtoL…> The Graduate Center, City University of New York Room 7301.12 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the DH-FACULTY list, click the following link: https://GC.LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU/scripts/wa-gc.exe?TICKET=NzM5MzQzIEphbWVzLkxvd…<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/GC.LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU/scripts/wa-gc.exe?T…>

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