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
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
An Important Message for Faculty and Staff from the Center on Violence against Women and Children Better Late than Never? Stephanie Bartz reports on an amusing development: “We recently received a piece of mail for Donald F. Cameron. In case… Continue Reading
Play ball! RULSA is sponsoring a baseball trip on Sunday, July 20 for the Yankees vs. Kansas City game. The cost of the trip ($13.00 for RULSA members and their families, $13.50 for non-members and their families) will include the… Continue Reading
The Institute for Research Design in Librarianship is an IMLS-funded program “designed to bring together a diverse group of academic and research librarians who are motivated and enthusiastic about conducting research but need additional training and/or other support to perform… 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
How To Mary Beth Fecko, Technical and Automated Services, has written Cataloging Nonbook Resources: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians. Cataloging is the starting point for access to nonbook materials, especially important for media which cannot be browsed in the manner… Continue Reading
These are exciting times for Dana Library. Last month, we began a series of renovations that will address the highest priorities for improving the library that were identified through the Rutgers University–Newark strategic planning process several years ago. The changes… Continue Reading
This month we take a look at what the new year brought to the Libraries in 1981. Movin’ on Up A recent Association of Research Libraries report by Kendon Stubbs entitled “The ARL Library Index and Quantitative Relationships in the… Continue Reading
It may be hard to believe, but November 1998 was two whole decades ago! What was happening around the Libraries? Dana Puts High Schoolers Online 16 Newark Central High School students… participated in an innovative computer-usage-training program conducted last year… Continue Reading