Archival Work

Understanding where Rutgers is currently in 2018 with digital technology cannot be complete without understanding where it was in the past. This page contains pictures from the University Archives found in the basement of Alexander Library (see Staff page for more information on libraries at Rutgers) that puts into perspective the advances made by the university and what it means to be digital. 

Image of card catalog system used to find books in the libraries, undated. Students would have to use this to find books they wanted to check out.  
Image of a man in a room with one of the University’s first computers, undated. Note the massiveness of the computer.
Image of a man, Joseph A. O’Rourke, with an IBM computer
Caption from picture provided in archives – note materiality
Image of a Computer Monitor from Rutgers University of the globe. Notice there is no mouse, only a keyboard.
Grand opening of the College Ave Computing Center that still exists today from an unknown date but from the looks of it appears to have happened in the 1980’s/90’s. 
Female Librarian leading a student orientation in the early 2000’s, teaching students how to use computers at Rutgers.

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