Quick Takes on Events and News – March 2017

Open and Affordable Textbooks Project Will Save Almost $1.6 Million in First Year More than 32 classes are switching over to low cost or no-cost textbook solutions as part of the Open and Affordable Textbooks (OAT) Project, with a projected… Continue Reading

Piloting Stories on the Libraries’ Instagram Account: A Case Study

Back in August, Instagram announced a new feature called Stories. Similar to their counterparts on Snapchat, Instagram stories allow users to create a “slideshow” of images and/or videos that is viewable for 24 hours before disappearing. Last week, we (@rutgerslibraries… Continue Reading

A Celebration of Books reception is scheduled for April 12

We are holding the reception for A Celebration of Books (previously called the Faculty Author Celebration) on April 12 at 5 p.m. in Alexander Library. In addition to a display of books and poster giveaways, we are delighted to announce… Continue Reading

Changes to the Events and News sections of the website

Rutgers University Libraries website will be getting a slight facelift in order to feature more of our news stories and to accommodate our new events calendar. News and Events will now appear in separate sections and will contain more visual… Continue Reading