30 Years of the Bishop Lecture
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Author: Jessica Pellien
Quick takes on events & news
National Library Week April 10 – 16, 2016 The theme of this year’s National Library Week is “Libraries Transform.” You can read up on National Library Week here: http://www.ala.org/news/mediapresscenter/factsheets/nationallibraryweek. Student Employment Week April 10 – 16, 2016 The Student Coordinator… 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
For the third year in a row, Robeson librarians participate in Camden Comic Con
Julie Stile and Zara Wilkinson are putting the finishing touches on the Paul Robeson Library’s programming for the ever-popular Camden Comic Con. The event takes place on April 9 at Rutgers University-Camden and this is a taste of what’s in… Continue Reading
Rutgers Day 2016 planning and call for volunteers
Looks like fun, doesn’t it? Rutgers Day 2016 will take place on April 30, 2016 and will include–for the first time–festivities in Newark and Camden, in addition to tables on Voorhees Mall in New Brunswick. The themes of our Rutgers… Continue Reading
Social media summit, April 19, 2016
The communications department is hosting a social media summit to kick off a discussion of social media strategy for the Libraries and introduce the formation of a Libraries’ Social Media Taskforce. All Libraries faculty and staff who are currently working… Continue Reading
Win a copy of Tom Glynn’s award-winning book, Reading Publics
As you may have noticed in the Staff News, Tom Glynn’s new book, Reading Publics: New York City’s Public Libraries, 1754-1911, has won three major awards: The Hornblower Award for a First Book from the 2015-2016 New York Society Library’s… Continue Reading
RUcore hosts “Signs@40: Feminist Scholarship through Four Decades”
The interactive topic model for the fortieth anniversary edition of Signs, Signs@40: Feminist Scholarship through Four Decades, is now publicly available in RUcore (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T35D8TVZ). Users may download the entire project (topic model data and browser software) or selectively download either the data or the… Continue Reading
New research impact panel
Check out the new Research Impact panel on the Information for Researchers and Scholarly Communications website: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/services_researchers. Intended for the libraries users, it includes an overview of traditional citation analysis tools and metrics, as well as an Altmetrics description and… 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