The Agenda - Faculty and Staff Newsletter

Category: Event

  • Gary Golden’s Retirement Party Invitation

    gary goldenJoin us as we celebrate Gary Golden’s incredible career at Rutgers University Libraries. The faculty and staff at Paul Robeson Library are planning a festive party to commemorate Gary’s retirement on June 6 at 12 p.m. Join them on the 2nd floor of the Robeson library for food and fun.

    If you plan to attend, please let Monique Whittle know. RSVPs and the suggested donation of $25 is due to Monique by May 19.

    We will have a couple of speakers at the event, but we want to give everyone a chance to share their special memories and moments with Gary.

    If you would like to participate in a special display during the event, please fill out this Google form.

    To share this form with colleagues past and present, please send this link: http://go.rutgers.edu/wtdae3t.

  • “The Book: Digital, Edible, and as Art”

    “The Book: Digital, Edible, and as Art”

     

    These books were created by students in the Spring 2016 Byrne Seminar “The Book: Digital, Edible, and as Art.” All photos were taken by Megan Lotts.

  • 30 Years of the Bishop Lecture

    30 Years of the Bishop Lecture

    If you have a photo that might complement one of the lectures that don’t currently have a photo, please send it along to kuehl@rci.rutgers.edu.

  • Quick takes on events & news

    Quick takes on events & news

    National Library Week

    April 10 – 16, 2016 160217-pao-national-library-week-2016-psa.inddThe 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 Thank-you-word-cloudThe Student Coordinator Group is putting the finishing touches on their plans to celebrate and thank our student workers. Each unit will have different activities throughout the week and we will host a spotlight series showcasing a different student worker across the system each day as a news story. Look for more information on this soon.

    “The Elusiveness of Progress: Voting Rights in America” exhibit at Kilmer Library

    Ends August 31, 2016 Voting rights ondisplay obama 300 pxThe Elusiveness of Progress: Voting Rights in America is on display at Kilmer Library, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, now through the end of August. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

    Like Jazz Women’s History Month Film Festival in Newark

    March 29 – April 7, 2016 LikeJazz 300Dana Library and the Institute of Jazz Studies are partnering with Women In Media – Newark n their 2016 Women’s History Month Film Festival.

    April 5 at 5 p.m.: Dana Library will host the screenings of Airgirl and The Unforgettable Hampton Family (with Dawn Hampton making a special appearance at the screening).

    April 6 at 5 p.m.: Dana Library will show An Educated Woman and Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band.

    For a complete schedule of films please visit their website: http://wim-n.com/film-festival-2016/

    TFAP@TEN exhibit at Douglass Library

    Ends April 8, 2016
    Detail from Apiphobia (2011) by Anonda Bell. Mixed media installation. Dimensions variable.
    Detail from Apiphobia (2011) by Anonda Bell. Mixed media installation. Dimensions variable.

    TFAP@TEN, a group exhibition honoring the 10th anniversary of The Feminist Art Project (TFAP), is on display through April 8 in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries at Douglass Library.

    Women and Creativity House Student Exhibitions

    April 20 – May 2, 2016
    Sarah Ferreira, After Jill Magid, Muse Portrait, 2014, digital photograph, 14 x 11". From 2014-15 WCH Exhibition.
    Sarah Ferreira, After Jill Magid, Muse Portrait, 2014, digital photograph, 14 x 11″.
    From 2014-15 WCH Exhibition.

    Women and Creativity House Student Exhibitions will feature the work of Sarah Ferreira, CWAH intern and Stacy Scibelli, learning community coordinator.

    The annual Women and Creativity House Student Exhibition is sponsored by Douglass Residential College and the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, a unit of the Office of the Senior VP for Academic Affairs. The exhibition is part of the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities in partnership with Rutgers University Libraries, and is the oldest continuous running exhibition space in the United States dedicated to making visible the work of emerging and established contemporary women artists.

    Twenty years later, Jim Niessen will revisit Historians and the Internet

    Twenty years ago, near the beginning of his career as a librarian, world history librarian Jim Niessen was invited to contribute to a discussion about the Internet on the pages of the Debrecen journal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and his essay on “Historians and the Internet” appeared here (in Hungarian): http://w3.atomki.hu/debrecen/debszem/96_2/niessen.html . The contributors will now be providing updates to their remarks, and Jim has promised us a recap of his new essay for our next issue.

    Preservation Week

    April 24 – April 30, 2016 preservationRutgers University librarians are participating in events to celebrate Preservation Week, which is an initiative of ALA ALCTS-PARS:

    “From Cassette to Cloud: Reformatting Audiotapes,” by Krista White on April 26 from 2 – 3 p.m.

    Learn how to evaluate audio formats and the technical details of digitizing them in this one hour webinar.

    “Preserving Your Digital Life,” by Krista White and Isaiah Beard on April 28 from 2 – 3 p.m.

    Learn how to develop and implement a plan for preserving your digital life so that friends and family can enjoy your memories far into the future.

    Both of these webinars are designed by ALCTS to be suitable for a lay audience. The official description of the webinars and more information is at the ALA/ ALCTS-PARS Preservation Week site here: http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/preswk/alctsevents

    “Cherry Blossoms in Spring” exhibit at Dana Library

    April 14 – June 30, 2016 cherry blossoms in spring exhibit image 300Dana Library is hosting “Cherry Blossoms in Spring,” an installation by artist Karen Guancione, in the Gallery from April 14 through June 30.  An opening reception will take place on Thursday, April 14, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Library’s Dana Room and an accompanying program on the history of cherry trees in the Garden State featuring horticulturist Anthony S. Aiello will take place on Thursday, April 21, at 3 p.m. in the Dana Room. Read up on these events here.

    New digital exhibition: “Invisible Restraints: Life and Labor at Seabrook Farms”

    April 20, 2016 Seabrook Farm exhibit imageThe online exhibition, “Invisible Restraints: Life and Labor at Seabrook Farms,” which will be hosted by the New Jersey Digital Highway, will officially launch this month. The opening event will be held Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 4 p.m. in the Teleconference Lecture Hall at Alexander Library. For more on this unique collaboration, read our news story.

    Digital Humanities Initiative workshop

    April 6, 2016
    L0022787 L. Ercker, The laws of art and nature... Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Sculpture II. Engraving The laws of art and nature... Lazarus Ercker Published: 1683 Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Engraving from “The laws of art and nature…” (1683) by Lazarus Ercker. Image credit: Wellcome Library, London.

    Rutgers’ Digital Humanities Initiative and the Libraries will host a Digital Lab Series of five workshops throughout the spring semester at the Alexander Library, Rutgers University–New Brunswick. This lab will introduce the basic building blocks of the web: HTML and CSS.

    Introduction to Web Development with HTML and CSS
    with Francesca Giannetti
    Wednesday, April 6, 2016
    11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

    SAPAC brown bag presentation, “A Citation Analysis of English Dissertations at Rutgers University”

    April 6, 2016 Brown Lunch bag paper with red apple on white background

    The Scholarly and Professional Activities Committee invites you to a brown bag presentation on Wednesday, April 6, at noon, in the Pane Room, Alexander Library, with video-conferencing to the Dana (Dana Administrative Conference Room) and Robeson (290).

    A Citation Analysis of English Dissertations at Rutgers University
    Kevin Mulcahy
    Abstract:
    Academic libraries, especially at state funded institutions, face converging pressures—budgets that are often flat or declining; increased requests for a wide variety of resources (journals, print and e-books, full-text databases, data sets, films and other media), and demands for assessment and accountability from university administrations and state legislatures. Literature librarians confront, directly, or at least implicitly, the additional challenge: is spending institutional funds on books worthwhile. While there is perhaps a tendency for literature specialists to throw up their hands in dismay or to regard the questioners as philistines who simply do not understand the nature of literary research, a more sound strategy is to assess the actual use of their collections. What evidence proves that books are still an integral part of the resources used by literature scholars? To help answer this question, I examined the bibliographies of 30 recent (2008-2014) dissertations from the English Department at Rutgers University, and coded 5870 citations by format and date. Books account for 67.7% of all citations, journal articles for 16.8%, and literary works (novels, drama, poetry, etc.) for 9.7%.

    TeachMeet, “See One, Do One, Teach One”

    April 6, 2016 The Instructional Community of Practice (ICOP) and the Instruction and Information Literacy Team (NB) invite you to a TeachMeet being presented by our RBHS colleagues, Roberta FitzPatrick and Peggy Dreker.

    See One, Do One, Teach One
    Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2016
    Location: Pane room, Alexander Library (Dana, Robeson, Smith teleconference)
    Time: 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

    Students at the New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) and the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine (RSDM) attend an instructional session which covers some basic searching and evidence-based medicine/dentistry concepts, as well as information about writing a CAT (Critically Appraised Topic). They learn how to write a searchable question and how to break that question into concepts, called the PICO format, which helps them to generate search terminology. Students use the information taught in the session to write their own CAT, then teach from that CAT in their subsequent small group sessions. The scholarship and research skills demonstrated by their finished CAT are graded by the preceptor. Hear how this approach to assessment can be adopted in your own discipline/instruction sessions.
  • A Celebration of Books reception is scheduled for April 12

    A Celebration of Books reception is scheduled for April 12

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    Micah Kleit, incoming director, Rutgers University Press

    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 that our featured speaker for the evening will be Micah Kleit, the incoming director at Rutgers University Press.

    He will address the convergence of publishing, libraries, and universities and what it is that causes us to want to produce—and reproduce—knowledge. Exploring the landscape of publishing (generally) and university press publishing (more specifically), he will discuss how libraries, scholars, and universities with and without presses need each other now more than ever. The talk will take into account questions of risk, especially as the landscape of scholarly publishing and depositories is changing, and how the risks embedded in contemporary publishing offer new opportunities for scholars, students, and the general public.

    Micah Kleit is the incoming director of Rutgers University Press. He has been at Temple University Press for the last seventeen years, first as executive editor, then as interim editorial director, and most recently as editor-in-chief. Before Temple, he was an editor at Beacon Press and the University of Minnesota Press.

    Please RSVP using this form: http://go.rutgers.edu/14dnx3nb or email events@rulmail.rutgers.edu.

     

  • For the third year in a row, Robeson librarians participate in Camden Comic Con

    For the third year in a row, Robeson librarians participate in Camden Comic Con

    comic conJulie 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 the works:

    Real Geek Girls: Celebrating Women in Fandom and Fiction (11 a.m. -12:15 p.m.)

    Ariell Johnson, owner, Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse Claire Folkman and Kelly Phillips, editors, Dirty Diamonds: An All-Girl Comics Anthology, and Feliza Casano, editor in chief, Girls in Capes

    Rutgers-Camden Faculty Spotlight (1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.)

    “Remembering RaceFail09: Why Race Should Matter in SFF”

    Dr. Keith Green, associate professor of English, director of Africana studies

    “Skyrim’s Neomedievalist Fantasy”

    Dr. Aaron Hostetter, assistant professor of English

    Rabble Rousing at Rutgers (3:15 p.m. – 4 p.m.)

    Brian Phillips and Bria Troutman will present a student-created graphic novel documenting the 1968 black student protests at Rutgers University-Camden.

  • Rutgers Day 2016 planning and call for volunteers

    Rutgers Day 2016 planning and call for volunteers

    • Rutgers Day 2015 had a Legos theme

    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 Day booths will merge the heritage of Rutgers University with the excitement of pop culture icons like Star Wars and superheroes. Intrigued? Want to help out? Read on…

    New Brunswick and Newark will draw on Rutgers heritage, library technology, and the always-popular Star Wars films to explore the theme of “Libraries into the Future.” The Robeson Library staff is partnering with the Nilsa Cruz-Perez Downtown branch of the Camden County Library for a joint library tent with a superhero theme in honor of Camden Comic Con.

    The Rutgers Day Committee has been busily planning for the event and request assistance or volunteers for the following activities:

    Newark events – coming soon!
    New Brunswick events
    • Children’s story time — we need readers for our story time area and donations of children’s books. We are hoping to have a Rutgers VIP read at the top of each hour, but we need volunteers to read between these scheduled events. Please consider volunteering to read a story or two! And if you know any Rutgers VIPs or have suggestions of people to reach out to, let us know.
    • The Libraries’ Wheel of Fortune table — ask trivia questions and hand out prizes.
    • Our Rutgers R statue — the committee is looking for some artistic and crafty help in putting together our R. The R will be on display at Rutgers Day and in past years the competition has been stiff to be the best looking R out there!
    • Live demos of our 3D printers as they print souvenirs for our guests.
    • Donate new or gently used children’s books, particularly those related to the future, galaxy, robots, Star Wars, etc.  The age range varies from 3 years to 10 years old.  After Rutgers Day, each book will be donated to the RUL collection.  Please take a moment during your Spring cleaning and find us a book!
    Camden events
    • Children’s book corner with superhero-themed books so families with kids can sit and take a reading break.
    • Coloring and a crafty “make your own superhero” station (not just for the kids!).
    • A selfie station with superhero props.
    • A public library card sign-up drive.

     

  • Social media summit, April 19, 2016

    Social media summit, April 19, 2016

    SOCIAL MEDIA SUMMIT(1)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 on social media are strongly encouraged to attend. The summit is also open to anyone interested in learning more about social media and how academic libraries can best reach their audiences through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

    Date/Time: April 19, 2016
    9:30 am -3:00 p.m. (lunch will be provided)
    Location:  Teleconference Room, 4th floor, Alexander Library

    Guest Speakers:

    Karen Smith (Assistant Director, New and Emerging Media, Rutgers University Communications and Marketing) will provide an overview of Rutgers University’s social media, visual identity, and editorial guidelines and discuss what to consider when making a social media plan.

    Aaron Kenji Ginoza (Social Media & Community Engagement Coordinator, University of Maryland Libraries) will discuss how academic libraries can best reach their audiences through social media, describing some of his most successful social media campaigns and highlighting pitfalls to avoid.

    Download a flyer for this event [JPG]

    RSVP: Jessica Pellien, Communications Department

  • Changes to the Events and News sections of the website

    Changes to the Events and News sections of the website

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    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 content.

    The News Section

    The News section will now feature a rotating gallery that displays four thumbnail images, each with a headline. Users can scroll to read additional stories or click on the thumbnails/headlines to read more. There will also be a jump button to the archives for news stories.

    To submit news, please contact Jessica Pellien.

    The Events Section

    A rotating carousel of featured events will run in the Events section with a link to enter the calendar page. The content for this section will be selected from the events submitted by event organizers. There will also be a link to the complete events calendar which can be sorted or filtered by location, date, type of event, etc. For more information on how the Calendar will work, please scroll down.

    The Featured Collection Section

    The appearance of this section will essentially remain the same. Please continue sending submissions for this to Mary Ann Koruth.

     

    Events Calendar:

    The newly developed Libraries events calendar will include events hosted and sponsored by the Libraries, as well as events sponsored by other organizations that are using our facilities and may be of interest to our users. You can preview the calendar here (please note that not all the features may be functional yet and that this link can only be viewed from within the Libraries).

    Event organizers can submit their events via a simple web form that includes a short description, an image for the event, location, date, time, and contact. The events will not be “live” on our public events calendar until they have been moderated by the Communications Department. It is recommended that you upload your event as soon as you have the information for the listing—event title, description, date, time, location, image. The Communications Department can make changes to the events posting after it is published on the Libraries website. Additional documentation on adding an event will be available at the event submission website.