The Agenda - Faculty and Staff Newsletter

Author: Matt Badessa

  • Digital Exhibits Page

    Continuing the work of presenting our digital projects in a consistent arrangement, the Digital Exhibits page is available with its first five digital exhibitions. The page summarizes the completed projects and links to each online exhibition and its exhibit catalog. While the panels and web pages reflect the distinctiveness of the subjects, they share unified theming. They have consistent links back to the main Digital Exhibits page as well as the Libraries home page. Be sure to check back from time to time, as more are on the way in the months to come.

  • The New PubMed

    PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

    The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is replacing the current version of the PubMed database with its newly re-designed version. The new PubMed version will become our default interface on March 16.

    Until then, when you visit PubMed you will see a blue banner inviting you to try the new PubMed. Switching to new PubMed using this banner will allow you to try new PubMed, but “Get it @ R” links may not appear. To see “Get it @ R” links in new PubMed, please access new PubMed directly through the following URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?otool=njrutulib.

    Beginning March 16, when new PubMed becomes our default interface, “Get It @ R” links will appear in new PubMed by default.

    Some of the big changes between legacy PubMed and new PubMed are:

    • A more modern-looking search interface
    • Search results sorted by a “best match” ranking by default not by the “most recent” ranking.
    • Citation creation tools: formats citations for an article in AMA, MLA, APA, or NLM style.

    The new PubMed is richly featured, including advanced search, search details, search history, filters, My NCBI, links from MeSH, and more. It boasts some great new display, navigation, and output features in a truly responsive design that facilitates mobile access, including links to the full text when available from the publisher, PMC, or Rutgers University Libraries (via the “Get it @ R” button).

    Improvements to retrieval include enhanced synonymy, addition of plural forms, better British/American translations, and unlimited truncation.

    Here’s a link to the New PubMed Trainer’s Toolkit which includes annotated slide decks,  handouts, and

    quick tours, to be used in workshops and sessions as the new interface rolls out.

  • This Month in the Agenda – January 2000

    IRIS Offline

    Welcome to the new millennium! I hope everyone had a chance to enjoy the holiday and celebrate in style. The holiday break really flew by, and now we’re at the beginning of the new semester. As you all well know, this wasn’t a time for rest. Our systems staff were totally immersed in providing a critical upgrade of SIRSI software and loading our authority records. This was a massive undertaking that required a tremendous amount of work on the part of many in TAS. Because access to IRIS functions are an integral part of all our work, even those of you not directly involved with the upgrade and systems work were directly impacted by this project. The unavailability of IRIS meant a lot of work-arounds and the delay of many important front-line support activities. Our users, too, felt the absence of IRIS and the impact that had on their research and instructional plans.

    The Agenda 22, no. 2 (January 23, 2000)

    Talking Internet Ethics

    An article co-authored by Robeson Library’s Julie Still and Vib Kassabian, “The Mole’s Dilemma: Ethical Aspects of Public Internet Access in Academic Libraries,” has been published in v.4 #3 of Internet Reference Services Quarterly (pp. 7-22). The article discusses some of the ethical and legal aspects of allowing the general public free and unlimited Internet access. The authors note that denying the public access can be equally problematic, especially at publicly funded institutions.

    The Agenda 22, no. 2 (January 23, 2000)

    Happy Birthday NJEDL

    There’s a wealth of information “out there” on the environment in New Jersey, produced by a variety of agencies, organizations, scientists, and public individuals throughout the state. The challenge is finding, and bringing together, all the relevant sources when a comprehensive answer to a specific question is needed.

    A new project, led by two Rutgers librarians, will address that perplexing dilemma. The two librarians, Linda Langschied and Ronald Jantz of the New Brunswick Libraries of Rutgers University, will employ their professional expertise and the considerable computer resources of the Scholarly Communication Center in Alexander Library to build the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library. This project was recently endorsed by the NJ Department of Environmental Protection’s Geographic Information System (GIS) division which made a grant in support of the project – for a total of $92, 543.

    The Agenda 22, no. 2 (January 23, 2000)

    Welcome – and Congrats!

    Arrivals

    • Zohreh Bonianian, Library Assistant II, ALEX
    • Jessica Cintron, Library Assistant III, ROBESON

    Promotions

    • Anne Butman, Systems Programmer IV, TAS
    • Clark Sho Nakagama, Microcomputer Analyst, TAS
    • Jeffrey Teichmann, Library Supervisor II, LSM
    • Robert Terrio, Library Associate II, TAS

    The Agenda 22, no. 2 (January 23, 2000)

  • What’s Happening around Rutgers – January 2020

    Adverse Childhood Experiences, Social Determinants of Health, and the Road to Health Equity

    Tuesday January 21, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
    Medical Science Building, RBHS Newark

    Luis Alzate-Duque, MD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Rutgers NJMS, will present this important, socially-relevant talk addressing health inequity and the road to redress. All interested parties are encouraged to attend. Learn more.

    Outside the Wire: Speaking Out About Marginalized Experiences in the Military

    Wednesday January 22, 7–8:30pm
    Rutgers–Camden Campus Center, Multi-Purpose Room

    Outside the Wire is an annual programming series highlighting veterans’ narratives. This event pairs the lived experiences of veterans with speakers whose scholarly, journalistic, or creative work concerns veterans’ experiences. The panel will feature Samuel Black, curator of African American Programs at the Heinz History Center; Helen Benedict, author of The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq; and area veterans. Learn more and RSVP to attend.

    Hosted by the Writers House.

    Dogs and People and Dingoes

    Friday January 24, 3:30 p.m.
    Ruth Adams Building, Rutgers–New Brunswick

    As part of the 2019-20 Lecture Series of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES), Dr. Patricia Shipman (Pennsylvania State University) will give a lecture, “Dogs and People and Dingoes.” Learn more.

  • Quick Takes on Events and News – January 2020

    Targum Documentary Spotlights NBMSA

    Islamic Art Wiki-a-Thon Returns to Dana Library 

    Dana Library hosted its second Islamic Art Wiki-a-Thon last semester. Professor Alex Seggerman’s Islamic Architecture course was one of a group of classes participating in the December 9 Islamic Art Wiki-a-Thon. Students spent the semester learning how to do research and edit Wikipedia pages. They prepared and wrote drafts, updating current Wikipedia articles on various Islamic architecture sites. During the event, they came together and made official changes to articles. They were joined asynchronously by students at Temple University and the University of Texas. 

    On Exhibit at Douglass Library 

    MARY H. DANA WOMEN ARTISTS SERIES GALLERIES
    Gendering Protest: Deborah Castillo and Érika Ordosgoitti
    Exhibition: January 21–April 3, 2020
    Curator: Tatiana Flores, Associate Professor of Latino & Caribbean Studies and Art History
    Gallery Hours: M-F 9 a.m.–10 p.m.
    Public Event
    Reception and Artist’s Lecture: Wednesday, March 25 | 5:00–6:45 p.m.
    RSVP: womenart@cwah.rutgers.edu
    Galleries and event are free and open to the public.
    cwah.rutgers.edu @CWAHatRutgers #GenderingProtest 

     

  • This Month in the Agenda – November 1990

    Hypercard Brown Bag Lunch, November 9, 1990
    Overdue Notice

    This note was recently received at Douglass Library accompanying a book that was overdue in 1963. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

    TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

    My malicious brother, John Doe, died recently and left us with a house full of books he had stolen from every library he ever lived near.

    The enclosed book appears to be yours. I am returning it with the hope it will still be of some value to you.

    On behalf of the entire family, I sincerely regret my brother’s action.

    Jane Doe

    The Agenda 12, no. 43 (November 4, 1990)

    Ruth on the Move

    On January 1, 1991, Ruth Simmons will begin a FASP leave and step down from her position of Director of Special Collections and Archives. At that time, she will become Senior Archivist and Curator of the Griffis Collection.

    The Agenda 12, no. 45 (November 25, 1990)

    Welcome!

    Personnel Changes – Staff

    Arrivals

    Natalie Delker, Library Assistant 3, LSM
    Dolores Evans, Secretarial Assistant II, Library Administration
    Helen Slim, Library Assistant 3, Camden Library
    Tracey Meyer, Library Supervisor III, TAS
    Joy Willinger, Senior Accounting Clerk, Library Administration

    The Agenda 12, no. 45 (November 25, 1990)

  • What’s Happening around Rutgers – November 2019

    “Top Girls” Theater Performance

    Friday, November 1, 7:30 p.m.
    Fine Arts Building, Walter K. Gordon Theater, Camden

    The Rutgers–Camden theater program presents Top Girls. Hilarious and haunting, Caryl Churchill’s feminist masterpiece set in Margaret Thatcher’s England is a wildly innovative play about a country divided by its own ambitions. Marlene has reached the pinnacle of success as the head of the Top Girls Employment Agency—but at what price? Purchase tickets. (Additional shows on Saturday and Sunday.)

    Philip Roth Lecture: Sean Wilentz

    Monday, November 4, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
    Newark Public Library, Newark

    This year’s lecturer is Princeton’s Sean Wilentz. Mr. Wilentz is the author of a wide range of books including The Rise of American Democracy, No Property in Man, Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, and Bob Dylan in America.

    His lecture topic is American Slavery, American Anti-slavery. After retiring, Mr. Roth devoted most of his reading to the study of American history.

    Professor Wilentz was Roth’s guide, helping him to make book selections and engaging in discussions of the material.

    The event is free. Valet parking is available. Seating will be available on a first-come/first-served basis.

    RSVP here.

    Planetary Science Late Night

    Wednesday, November 6, 4:00–8:00 p.m.
    Rutgers Geology Museum, New Brunswick

    Visit us on Wednesday, November 6th, and learn about our Solar System and all of its planetary bodies! Demonstrations, arts and crafts and educational activities will be set up around the museum for this event and people are welcome to come and go as they please. We encourage all ages to come participate and learn something new! More information.

  • Quick Takes on Events and News – November 2019

    SWPACA Call for Papers

    Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 41st annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference! One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. The deadline has been extended to November 20. Visit the SWPACA website for more information.

    Dan Morgenstern Named IJS Executive Director Emeritus

    The Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) at Rutgers University–Newark has appointed Dan Morgenstern Executive Director Emeritus of IJS and has named a yearlong fellowship in his honor to celebrate his 90th birthday and significant contributions to jazz scholarship. Homage will continue in the spring with a symposium on Morgenstern’s life and legacy. Read all the details on the Rutgers–Newark news site.

    Electronic Music Ensemble of Wayne State

    On November 11 at Douglass Library, the Electronic Music Ensemble of Wayne State (EMEWS) will present live electronic music made for laptop orchestra, game controllers, smartphones, and drum machines. The event is part of the ensemble’s EMEWS to the East tour, and it is supported by New Music USA. This event is free and open to the public!

    Rutgers Football from the Vault Panel Discussion

    Rutgers University is well known as the birthplace of intercollegiate football. On November 18, 2019, we will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first football game with a panel of Rutgers historians. Thomas J. Frusciano was Rutgers University Archivist at Rutgers from 1989 to 2017 and the author of The Rutgers University Football Vault: History of the Scarlet Knights. Tom will provide an overview of Rutgers football history. Steve Greene is a 1979 graduate of Rutgers and the author of the forthcoming 1869 – American Football Kicks Off ! New Discoveries at the Birthplace of Intercollegiate Football. Finally, Stephen Dalina is a recent graduate of Rutgers University–Newark. Currently pursuing a Master of Arts degree in world history at Rutgers, he will reflect on his experience co-curating the exhibition Rutgers Football from the Vault: Celebrating 150 Years with Interim University Archivist Erika Gorder. Visit the events calendar for more information.

    Digital Collection Spotlight: The Stedman Gallery

    The Stedman Gallery Collection features works from the Stedman Art Gallery, which was established in 1975 and is located in the Fine Arts Center at Rutgers University–Camden.

    The digital collection includes a variety of artworks ranging from chalk and charcoal drawings, to acrylic and oil paintings, to 19th-century Ukiyo-e, a type of Japanese woodblock print depicting Kabuki actors and other scenes from daily life. For more information, visit the digital collection portal or the Steadman Gallery website.

    Alumni Association Graduation Tour

    Know a graduating senior? Make sure you let them know about the Rutgers Alumni Association’s annual graduation trip! This year’s grad trip explores classic Europe, including England, France, Italy, the Vatican City, and Greece. Visit the Alumni Association’s website for more information.

  • Quick Takes on Events and News – September 2019

    Poet Takes Her Show on the Road

    In June, Smith Library library technician Ermira Mitre was invited to give a book talk and signing for Soul’s Gravity, her recently published book of Albanian poetry, for students in the Department of Education at the Alexander Moisiu University of Durres in Albania. While Soul’s Gravity will be coming to Amazon soon, Ermira is already hard at work on a follow-up book of poetry in English. Congrats, Ermira, and keep up the impressive work!

    SMLR and SCUA win NFPF Grant

    The School of Management and Labor Relations and Special Collections and University Archives have been awarded a 2019 Basic Presentation Grant for the James B. Carey Collection from the National Film Preservation Foundation. The collection is comprised of 4 reels of 8mm silent color home-movies shot by James B. Carey in Europe and the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. It was discovered in SMLR’s archives and documents Carey’s travels as the secretary-treasurer of the CIO and involvement in the World Federation of Trade Unionists (WFTU). The grant will fund both a digital access copy and 16mm film print of the original 8mm movies.

    New Exhibit at Douglass

    The Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities is pleased to announce that renowned artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Fine Arts, Vanderbilt University, has been named the 2019-20 Estelle Lebowitz Endowed Visiting Artist at Rutgers University. Campos-Pons’ solo exhibition, Sea and Self, will be on view from September 3 to December 13, 2019, in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries, Douglass Library. The exhibit is curated by art historian and curator, Tatiana Flores, associate professor in the departments of Latino & Caribbean Studies and Art History, Rutgers University. To accompany the exhibition, CWAH will publish a comprehensive online catalog.

    On Thursday, October 24 at 5 p.m. in the Mabel Smith Douglass Room, Douglass Library, there will be a reception in honor of Campos-Pons followed by an artist’s lecture from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Read more.

  • What’s Happening around Rutgers – September 2019

    Painting
    Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein

    Tuesday, September 3, 2019 to Sunday, January 5, 2020
    Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick

    Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein is a groundbreaking exhibition that explores how modern art was influenced by advances in science, from Einstein’s theory of relativity to newly powerful microscopic and telescopic lenses. A first-of-its-kind touring exhibition, Dimensionism is organized by the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College and opened at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

    Learn more.

    Savage Feast book
    Writers House: “Savage Feast” with Boris Fishman

    Thursday, September 12 | 12:45 to 1:45 p.m.
    Rutgers–Camden Writers House

    Boris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, and immigrated with his family to New York in 1988, at nine. He is the author of the novel A Replacement Life, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year that also won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Medal, and Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo, also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His new book is Savage Feast, a nonfiction family history told through recipes. He lives in New York City and teaches creative writing at Princeton University.

    Learn more.

    Gardens Party
    Rutgers Gardens party

    Thursday, September 26, 2019 | 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
    Rutgers Gardens, New Brunswick

    At this year’s Gardens Party, we will celebrate the opening of Cook’s Market. Our weekly farm market, now housed in its permanent green-roof structure, features vendors of local and Jersey-fresh products, many of whom will be featured at the party.

    At the event, Dr. Dennis Werner will be presented with the 2019 Hamilton Award. Dr. Werner is a fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science, and was recently named the Alumni Association Distinguished Undergraduate Professor by North Carolina State University.

    We will be joined by chef, grocer, and television personality “Produce Pete” Napolitano, for a book signing, who is well known across the state for his weekly fruit and vegetable segments on NBC affiliates in the greater New York and Philadelphia areas.

    Learn more and register.

    Porch fest
    The Newark Porch Fest in Forest Hill

    Saturday, September 28 | 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
    Forest Hill, Newark

    This inaugural celebration of community arts will take place in Newark’s Forest Hill historic district. Organized by the Forest Hill Community Association, our FREE family-friendly event will have amateur and professional artists (both performing and visual) volunteering to showcase their talents. Residents from Forest Hill will make their porches available to serve as community stages to accommodate the artists. Attendees will be invited to visit stages across the neighborhood to enjoy a full afternoon of entertainment, food, and fun. Visit us at Facebook: Newark Porchfest or Instagram: @newarkporchfest for updates and information.

    Learn more.