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
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
Bach 2 Rock: The Science of Sound Thursday, July 11 | 10 a.m. Walter K. Gordon Theater This multimedia presentation by Caryn Lin transforms sound with a five-string electric violin and a myriad of modern technology. Students journey from the… 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
Save the date! The 2019 Faculty/Staff Appreciation Picnic will be held on Wednesday, August 21 from noon to 4 p.m. at Rutgers Gardens. Stay tuned to RUL_everyone for more details and an RSVP form soon. We look forward to seeing… Continue Reading
Talking Vocational Awe at ACRL Congratulations to Fobazi Ettarth, who was one of the invited presentations at the annual ACRL conference in Cleveland, Ohio last month. Fobazi’s talk was titled “Becoming a ‘Bad Librarian’: Dismantling Vocational Awe in Librarianship” and… 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
Thank you to all the volunteers who braved the wind last weekend to work our Rutgers Day tents and spread the word about everything the Libraries have to offer. If you missed out on all the prize-wheeling, button-making, selfie-taking fun,… Continue Reading
DIY Courseware Congratulations to Ronald Jantz of the Scholarly Communication Center and Rutgers history Professor Rudy Bell, who wrote the article “Do it Yourself Courseware: How We Built A Reusable Web Platform for Studying World Cultures,” published in the February… Continue Reading