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Alma Analytics Tips: Lifecycle and Status

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Chris Sterback

When creating reports in Alma Analytics, there are a couple of filters or dimensions that you should be using frequently to help you refine the figures you are reporting. Two such dimensions are Lifecycle and Status. Dimensions containing the term… Continue Reading →

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In Conversation with Diane Biunno

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Matt Badessa

Diane Biunno joined the Libraries as metadata archivist for the Institute of Jazz Studies back in February. Here, we catch up with her to learn more about her experience and what she has been working on since the shift to… Continue Reading →

articles, Feature, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University-Newark, Staff News

Uncovering Masks: Ritual, Fun, Transformation, and Protection

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Triveni Kuchi

The Carr Library exhibit on masks was developed as a supplement to the Mid-Winter Mask Making student engagement event held on February 7, 2020 in partnership with the Friendship Fridays program organized by Rutgers Global. In the initial stages of… Continue Reading →

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Rutgers Meets Japan

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Fernanda Perrone

In 1867, Kusakabe Tarō (1844-1870), a samurai from Fukui in the remote west of the country, left Japan to study at Rutgers. After his untimely death in 1870, his mentor and friend, William E. Griffis (1843-1928) of the Rutgers Class… Continue Reading →

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Creating Homemade PPE

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Ermira Mitre

I would like to share my experience during these difficult days of our quarantine to fight against COVID-19. While all of us are working from home, the medical staff are on the front line fighting the virus while lacking the… Continue Reading →

articles, Feature, Health Sciences Libraries, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Staff News

United We Stand against COVID-19

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Connie Wu

Since March 17, a few residents in Warren, Watchung, Green Brook, and Long Hills and I have organized a donation campaign and raised a total of $31,214.60 from the local Chinese American community to donate PPEs to Robert Wood Johnson… Continue Reading →

articles, Feature, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Staff News

New Brunswick Libraries and the Google Book Project

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Jim Niessen

Google carts will arrive at Rutgers on March 2 for loading, with three quarters of them going to NBL.  Of the ca. 194,000 volumes listed on the Google candidates spreadsheet, roughly 86% were in the New Brunswick Libraries. Nearly 29%… Continue Reading →

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Camden Area Libraries

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Julie Still

The Paul Robeson Library in Camden hosted an Oreo tasting and cookie exchange for libraries in the Camden area, on Tuesday, December 10.  We worked with the Rutgers–Camden Law Library and Nilsa Cruz-Perez branch of the Camden Public Library. About… Continue Reading →

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This Month in the Agenda – September 2002

Posted on August 29, 2019 by Matt Badessa

Rubbing Shoulders with the Pres’ In August, President George W. Bush asked Paul Robeson Library’s Julie Still to join him in Waco, Texas for a national economic forum. Julie is a member of an investment club and participated in July… Continue Reading →

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On the Impact of a Casual Conversation

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Kayo Denda

One never thinks that a casual conversation with a librarian at Rutgers Day might impact a student’s decision to come to Rutgers University, but this is one such example. Noah Mac, RU ’21 and I met for the first time… Continue Reading →

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