St. John's University - Division of Library & Information Science

11/01/2018

In commemoration of All Saints Day, here is a video about the St. Thomas More church on our Queens campus.

Find out why a modern church was built in the middle of a bustling college campus and how it became an integral part of student life when Anthony Mangano mee...

10/17/2018

Congratulations to Dr. Christine Angel and to all DLIS alumni and students who have contributed to the CMS archives!

St. John’s is a Catholic and Vincentian university that prepares students for personal and professional success in today’s global society.

01/23/2018

Interesting reading...

America’s journalists, relentlessly attacked by President Trump, are also taking a beating in public opinion.

09/07/2017

Fall 2017 is in full swing! Check out our blog www.sjudlis.com ofr the latest news, jobs and scholarship opportunities.

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05/08/2017

Scholl Librarian Twitter chat this Wednesday 5/10/17:

01/20/2017

Interoperability problems with data management in a galaxy far, far away (a look at Star Wars with possible Rogue One spoilers)
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-disk-formats-of-star-wars-rogue-one-spoilers

01/06/2017

St. John’s is a Catholic and Vincentian university that prepares students for personal and professional success in today’s global society.

12/12/2016

Feeling a little lost when talking about tech in your library or courses? This glossary can fill in the blanks.

Are you new to tech and feel like sometimes you can’t even follow what people are talking about? Or have you already broken into the industry, but are feeling like a bit of a fake because there are still so many terms to tackle? Tech phrases and expressions can be tough to decipher—even with the ...

12/09/2016

“We have statements by President Trump saying he’s against net neutrality and he wants to expand libel laws,” Archive.org founder Brewster Kahle told the Guardian. Librarians are wary of storing hoards of precious information “along faultlines”, whether those faultlines were literal or ideological. Trump has called for surveillance of Muslims and nominated Jeff Sessions as his attorney general; the Alabama senator called plans to stop the NSA’s warrantless domestic wiretapping “idiotic”.

New York Public Library changed its data retention policies, and the American Library Association apologized for ‘normalizing’ the Trump administration

12/07/2016

Learn a little bit about the family whose apartment is now part of the new Teen and Adult Education Center in the Washington Heights Library branch of the NYPL

Ronald Clark and his daughter spent years living in one of New York City's branch libraries.

12/02/2016

"Real News vs. Fake News" LibGuide by Pace University Library
http://libguides.pace.edu/c.php?g=595861&p=4122462

How to tell real news from fake.

11/30/2016

http://www.askamanager.org/2013/06/how-to-list-accomplishments-on-your-resume-when-your-job-doesnt-have-easy-measures.html

A reader wries: I work as a receptionist. I think I'm pretty good at it. My job is basically to answer phones, take messages and relay them promptly, open