Visual Identity Resources from the Communications Department

The central communications office faces a unique challenge. While we are tasked with improving the appearance of the signage and marketing materials used at the Libraries, we recognize that these signs must serve local needs and be tailored for local… Continue Reading

Rutgers Launches Rutgers Health – Here’s What It Means for the Libraries

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What is Rutgers Health? “Rutgers Health is the clinical arm of Rutgers–the areas of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences and other Rutgers units devoted to caring for patients. A single brand for all of Rutgers’ patient care and services.” (from:… Continue Reading

Lessons from Town Hall – Connecting at the Local Level

Last week we tried something new with the Libraries Town Hall. We shifted our focus north to Rutgers University–Newark and spent some time looking at the relationship between the mission of the University and the planning and activities within the… Continue Reading

Year End Carryover Accrual Review For Employees Who Accrue Paid Time Each Month

Employees that are eligible to accrue paid time off should review year-end carryover accruals and discuss with supervisors to use excess vacation time prior to the June 30, 2017 deadline.  Staff may carry over one year accrual plus the time… Continue Reading

Rutgers Archivists and Librarians Rock Newark MARAC

The Spring 2017 MARAC conference was held from April 20-22 at Newark’s Robert Treat Hotel. MARAC, which stands for “Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference,” is a volunteer, regional consortium of archivists who live and work in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New… Continue Reading

Deep Dive: JAMAevidence

Deep Dive will give a bit more insider’s info on some of our resources. Here, Roberta Fitzpatrick gives us some more information about JAMAevidence. In 1990, Dr. Gordon Guyatt, Internal Medicine residency program director at McMaster University in Canada began… Continue Reading

The Kopp Dataset Is Now Available in RUcore

The Research Data Exploratory Team and members of the Software Architecture Working Group collaborated with Professor Robert Kopp and D.J. Rasmussen to ingest and provide access to an impressive collection of county-level climate change projection data that is now available… Continue Reading