About the Libraries: Libraries & Digital Centers:
Margery Somers Foster Center

Winning videos for the 2011 Undergraduate Multimedia Award. Congratulations to Tiffany Dodson and Mimi Zander for their projects "Cameo" and "Haiku" and "Inked: an Interview with Alison Bechdel" Spring 2011 Workshop Schedule (additional sessions can be arranged by contacting Kayo Denda ) 2011 Margery Somers Foster Undergraduate Multimedia Award (Two $250 awards) Award Application Overview and Form Award Brochure [PDF]

The West Room of Douglass Library

The Margery Somers Foster Center of Rutgers University Libraries strives to enable Rutgers students to build their leadership skills. Through the Foster Center's creative programs, students have the opportunity to engage in critical analysis and innovative research that enhances their academic experience. The programs also explore concepts for better understanding into alternative accounts of race, gender and sexuality, and power dynamics. Additionally, the Foster Center cultivates students' multimedia skills by utilizing the library resources, in particular the media resources at the Media Center and the capabilities of the Sharon Fordham Multimedia Laboratory, and exploring the dimensions of new media, and media technologies and cultures, as they interact with gender.

Since the fall of 2010, the Foster Center is offering two pilot workshops to Rutgers undergraduate students, one in multimedia skills, and one in interview practices. The Center will also sponsor two Undergraduate Multimedia Awards. The center's past projects are available here.

Kayo Denda
Head, Margery Somers Foster Center & Women's Studies Librarian
Email: kdenda@rci.rutgers.edu
tel: 848/932-5023
fax: 732-932-6777


Mabel Smith Douglass Library
8 Chapel Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8507

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