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

NET TV - City of Churches - Saint Thomas More Church at Saint John's University Queens (10/26/16) 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...

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

St. John’s Founding Mission Extolled by Institute Devoted to Protecting Immigrants | St. John's University St. John’s is a Catholic and Vincentian university that prepares students for personal and professional success in today’s global society.

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Tale of 2 polls: What do librarians have that journalists don’t? America’s journalists, relentlessly attacked by President Trump, are also taking a beating in public opinion.

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

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

Library and Information Science Alumna Named 2017 ALA “Emerging Leader” | St. John's University St. John’s is a Catholic and Vincentian university that prepares students for personal and professional success in today’s global society.

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

99 Terms You Need to Know When You’re New to Tech 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 ...

“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”.

Libraries promise to destroy user data to avoid threat of government surveillance New York Public Library changed its data retention policies, and the American Library Association apologized for ‘normalizing’ the Trump administration

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

Growing Up in a Library Is Exactly As Magical As You'd Imagine Ronald Clark and his daughter spent years living in one of New York City's branch libraries.

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

Library: REAL NEWS vs. FAKE NEWS: Fake News How to tell real news from fake.

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

how to list accomplishments on your resume when your job doesn't have easy measures — Ask a Manager 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