On September 27, 2005 at the opening of the exhibition of the newly purchased East Jersey materials held at Morven Museum and Gardens in Princeton, Richard P. McCormick, distinguished professor of history at Rutgers, presented remarks on the extraordinary acquisition… Continue Reading
Yini Zhu (Smith Library) and Yingting Zhang (RWJ Library) were both named to the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Biomedical Informatics Fellow program through a competitive application process. Yini attended a week-long medical informatics workshop held at Augusta University, Augusta,… Continue Reading
Lily Todorinova and Rose Barbalace describe some of the activities the New Brunswick Libraries’ Undergraduate Experience Team have undertaken in recent months or have planned for the summer. #ClubAlex The Libraries partnered with Student Affairs once again to bring Club… Continue Reading
Recently, the University convened two events to recognize faculty and staff who are celebrating a decade increment of employment at Rutgers. We are delighted to announce that more than 25 of our colleagues were included in the festivities and hope… Continue Reading
On May 13th, 2016, Dana Library hosted its second annual staff development day which was centered on exploring the question, “What does it mean to be a user centered academic library in the 21st century?” A “user centered” library was… Continue Reading
Hello all – I hope you all enjoyed the Townhall meeting last week. It was great to see so many of our colleagues virtually and in-person and to review all the ways we’ve moved forward on the priorities we identified… Continue Reading
Objectives Within the library, Access Services staff stand at the convergence of users and services and are armed with core functional skills. Despite this, they have traditionally played a passive role in patron-centered outreach. Our objective: to see if Access… Continue Reading
Objectives Librarians contributed evidence-based medicine curriculum. The CATs project provides instruction on basic EBM concepts: the evidence pyramid and levels of evidence, formulating a searchable clinical question, using the PICO format, searching PubMEd. Articles were read, synthesized, and turned into… Continue Reading
Objectives With the advent of RCM, Responsibility Center Management, as a new financial/budgeting model, fees assessed to schools or departments are more transparent. To demonstrate the value of the libraries beyond collections, an Events Assessment Task Force was formed to… Continue Reading
Objectives This study investigated how health sciences libraries provide services to lead, promote, and support initiatives in cultural competence in health professions education or patient care and to examine health sciences librarians’ opinions on cultural competence in relation to library… Continue Reading