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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 Fwd: Class modality
by James Lowry 02 May '24

02 May '24

Begin forwarded message: From: Kate Pechenkina <Kate.Pechenkina(a)qc.cuny.edu> Date: May 1, 2024 at 22:51:56 GMT+2 To: Stephen Grover <Stephen.Grover(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Julia Sneeringer <juliasneeringer(a)gmail.com>, Larissa Swedell <Larissa.Swedell(a)qc.cuny.edu>, James Lowry <james.lowry(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Shige Song <Shige.Song(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Melissa Checker <Melissa.Checker(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Zadia Feliciano <Zadia.Feliciano(a)qc.cuny.edu>, "Qianyun (Ivy) Huang" <Qianyun.Huang(a)qc.cuny.edu>, Francois Pierre-Louis <Francois.Pierrelouis(a)qc.cuny.edu> Subject: Class modality Dear Chairs, Several students have complained that some faculty members have switched class modality from in-person to online after the spring break. Below is message from the Provost: [1000008031.png] "Just a timely reminder that instructors should not unilaterally change the modality of their course(s). This is a practice we have been following since returning from the pandemic in Fall 2022. Changing modality after the semester has started - particularly if done by some instructors but not others (in other words, absent a College-wide directive) - is disruptive to students and their learning. We are monitoring campus activities closely, and should the President determine that activities need to move online that will be communicated immediately and widely to all in our community." Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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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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Gslisadjuncts Documents for filing
by James Lowry 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Hi everyone, Just a reminder that we all need to periodically submit to Susana, for filing, the following documents: 1. Your syllabi. These are kept on file for accreditation purposes. 2. Teaching observation reports. If you have observed a colleague teaching, and haven’t already done so, please send the signed report to me, CCing Susana. 3. Updated CVs. Whenever there is a major addition to your CV, please send it to Susana. Thanks! James

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Gslisadjuncts FW: Deadline approaching: GSLIS Spring 2024 awards
by James Lowry 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Dear Colleagues, This is a friendly reminder to submit your nominations for the following awards by March 31st, 2024: GSLIS Alum of the Year Award 2024<https://forms.office.com/r/TqRrBaXPjU> Karen P. Smith Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award<https://forms.office.com/r/ua1QmH1wrs> David Cohen Multicultural Award<https://forms.office.com/r/xMjFaHvsFU> We look forward to receiving your nominations soon. With thanks, Nafiz Nafiz Zaman Shuva, PhD (he/him) Assistant Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Studies,<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis> Queens College City University of New York<https://www.cuny.edu/> (CUNY) My recent publication(s): “They act like we are going to heaven”: pre-arrival information experiences, information crafting and settlement of immigrants in Canada<https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JD-05-2023-0082/full/ht…>. Information behavior and HIV/AIDS/STI awareness among Bangladeshi female sex workers: Do informational programs help?<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02666669231222461?utm_source=selli…>

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Gslisadjuncts New course catalog
by James Lowry 24 Mar '24

24 Mar '24

Colleagues, Please find attached the recently revised course catalog. It reflects recent changes to the name and structure of the Advanced Certificate in Children’s and Young Adult’s Services in the Public Library. Please let me know if you have any questions. Best 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 FW: Call for nominations for GSLIS awards for 2024!
by James Lowry 13 Mar '24

13 Mar '24

From: Nafiz Shuva <Nafiz.Shuva(a)qc.cuny.edu> Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 12:31 PM To: James Lowry <James.Lowry(a)qc.cuny.edu> Subject: Call for nominations for GSLIS awards for 2024! Good afternoon, James, Would you please circulate the following announcement via the listserv for adjunct faculty members at GSLIS? With thanks, Nafiz Dear Colleagues, The GSLIS Admissions, Academic Standing and Student Affairs (AASSA) Committee invites nominations from GSLIS adjunct faculty members for the following awards for 2024. Please consider nominating deserving students for these awards. Submitting nominations for most of these awards should not take more than 10-15 mins of your valuable time. GSLIS Alum of the Year Award 2024<https://forms.office.com/r/TqRrBaXPjU> Karen P. Smith Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award<https://forms.office.com/r/ua1QmH1wrs> David Cohen Multicultural Award<https://forms.office.com/r/xMjFaHvsFU> You would need to login using CUNY email to access these forms. For more information about these awards, please visit GSLIS award page<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis/current-students/awards#h.vvx34fw3g7df>. We look forward to your nominations by March 31st, 2024. With thanks, Nafiz Nafiz Zaman Shuva, PhD (he/him) Assistant Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Studies,<https://sites.google.com/view/qcgslis> Queens College City University of New York<https://www.cuny.edu/> (CUNY) My recent publication(s): “They act like we are going to heaven”: pre-arrival information experiences, information crafting and settlement of immigrants in Canada<https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JD-05-2023-0082/full/ht…>. Information behavior and HIV/AIDS/STI awareness among Bangladeshi female sex workers: Do informational programs help?<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02666669231222461?utm_source=selli…>

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