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
Like people across the country and the world, many Rutgers students, faculty, and staff now find themselves stuck at home, their normal routines of work and leisure upended by the coronavirus pandemic and efforts to mitigate its spread. Chang Science… Continue Reading
Thinking of hosting a virtual event and don’t know how to? The COVID-19 pandemic has instantly changed how we work and interact with each other. It’s a challenging time for all of us. All in-person meetings, events, and training have… Continue Reading
In light of our “new normal” circumstances, we have created a LibGuide that lists many helpful resources and documentation to support remote instruction. The Library Instruction Continuity Resources LibGuide includes information on how to conduct live conferencing and record lectures… Continue Reading
The Discovery phase of the website redesign project has officially concluded. Feel free to peruse NewCity’s Discovery Report, which outlines their findings from their onsite visit, one-on-one interviews with some key stakeholders, discussions with the core project team, an intercept… Continue Reading
Rutgers students, faculty, and staff can now access over a million digitized texts available through HathiTrust’s Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS). In response to the current public health crisis, HathiTrust is providing member libraries with temporary access to digital versions… Continue Reading
Thanks to everyone who attended State of the Libraries on Wednesday. We had over 200 folks join the meeting, and I’m so glad you all found the time to be there even with the competing demands of work and home.… Continue Reading
That’s Special Anticipating the physical and programmatic merger of the Department of Special Collections, University Archives, and the Records Management Program later this spring, University Librarian Hendrik Edelman has asked Ruth Simmons to serve as coordinator. Funds for the renovation… Continue Reading
The website redesign project has gotten underway. We are currently in the discovery phase, which has several objectives: to identify stakeholders and learn about their goals for the project; to uncover our needs as local communities delivering shared resources; to… Continue Reading