In the summer of 2021, for the second time, the Summer Tales Book Club gathered students virtually in Rutgers-New Brunswick to take short mental breaks from their summer session studies. #SummerTales is a three-month long program first offered online in… Continue Reading
A new Marijuana Research Guide from Rutgers librarians is ready to help researchers, students, and the public after legalization. The moment the news came in that New Jersey voters opted for the legalization of recreational marijuana, a new research guide seemed reasonable… Continue Reading
By Judit H. Ward and Nicholas Allred New Brunswick Libraries partnered with the Student College, Academic, and Research Libraries Association (SCARLA), the Library and Information Science Student Association (LISSA), and the SC&I Alumni Association to host an online Banned Books… Continue Reading
by Nicholas Allred, Jennifer Coffman, Judit Ward With much of campus life and instruction set to become virtual this fall, libraries as well as the rest of the university are figuring out how to offer rewarding programming and instruction over digital… Continue Reading
Like people across the country and the world, many Rutgers students, faculty, and staff now find themselves stuck at home, their normal routines of work and leisure upended by the coronavirus pandemic and efforts to mitigate its spread. Chang Science… Continue Reading
The fall 2019 semester has brought literature, science, and even a little magic to the Stephen and Lucy Chang Library on Cook Campus. In course papers on redesigning the Chang Science Library submitted for the Landscape Architecture course in 2018,… Continue Reading
The Chang Science Library hosted exciting events in the Spring ’19 semester. Partnering with University Career Services (UCS) for the current academic year, the library replaced Martin Hall as a location for the popular Career Meet-Ups and weekly Drop-in Resume… Continue Reading
In December, the Center of Alcohol Studies Library completed Reading for Recovery (R4R), a two-year ALA-funded project. Judit H. Ward formerly of CAS Library and now Reference & Instruction librarian at LSM was Principal Investigator for the project. The central hub… Continue Reading
Faculty are inundated with email invitations to publish in scholarly journals or to serve on their editorial boards. Many of these solicitations are completely valid, but an increasing number of these journals are engaging in predatory publishing practices. Predatory publishing,… Continue Reading