Transgender patients experience discrimination in health care and encounter difficulty in finding compassionate health care professionals. In order to transform health professional education and service delivery for a diverse gender non-conforming community, Dr. Jeremy Sinkin, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division… Continue Reading
In the summer of 2021, for the second time, the Summer Tales Book Club gathered students virtually in Rutgers-New Brunswick to take short mental breaks from their summer session studies. #SummerTales is a three-month long program first offered online in… Continue Reading
During a Library Student Advisory Board meeting in the fall, student members discussed the difficulty their peers experience paying for required textbooks. To learn more, we invited Zara Wilkinson to talk to us about the library’s Open & Affordable Textbooks… Continue Reading
When creating reports in Alma Analytics, there are a couple of filters or dimensions that you should be using frequently to help you refine the figures you are reporting. Two such dimensions are Lifecycle and Status. Dimensions containing the term… Continue Reading
Diane Biunno joined the Libraries as metadata archivist for the Institute of Jazz Studies back in February. Here, we catch up with her to learn more about her experience and what she has been working on since the shift to… Continue Reading
The Carr Library exhibit on masks was developed as a supplement to the Mid-Winter Mask Making student engagement event held on February 7, 2020 in partnership with the Friendship Fridays program organized by Rutgers Global. In the initial stages of… Continue Reading
In 1867, Kusakabe Tarō (1844-1870), a samurai from Fukui in the remote west of the country, left Japan to study at Rutgers. After his untimely death in 1870, his mentor and friend, William E. Griffis (1843-1928) of the Rutgers Class… Continue Reading
I would like to share my experience during these difficult days of our quarantine to fight against COVID-19. While all of us are working from home, the medical staff are on the front line fighting the virus while lacking the… Continue Reading
Since March 17, a few residents in Warren, Watchung, Green Brook, and Long Hills and I have organized a donation campaign and raised a total of $31,214.60 from the local Chinese American community to donate PPEs to Robert Wood Johnson… Continue Reading
Google carts will arrive at Rutgers on March 2 for loading, with three quarters of them going to NBL. Of the ca. 194,000 volumes listed on the Google candidates spreadsheet, roughly 86% were in the New Brunswick Libraries. Nearly 29%… Continue Reading