Collections Budget Statement for Fiscal Year 2021
The public-facing document on the FY21 collections budget has now been posted to our website. You can view it here or by navigating to About > Mission, Vision, & Strategic Plan from the homepage.
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Dorothy Gillespie Papers Digitization Project
We are delighted to announce that the first phase of the Dorothy Gillespie Papers digitization project is now completed and ready to be used by researchers at https://collections.libraries.rutgers.edu/dorothy-gillespie-papers Dorothy Gillespie (1920-2012) was an abstract sculptor and painter whose archives are… Continue Reading
In Conversation with Diane Biunno
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
Rutgers Meets Japan
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
Creating Homemade PPE
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
A Project Finds Its Moment: Books We Read, (Virtually) at Chang Science Library
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
Library Instruction Continuity
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
Digital Exhibits Page
Continuing the work of presenting our digital projects in a consistent arrangement, the Digital Exhibits page is available with its first five digital exhibitions. The page summarizes the completed projects and links to each online exhibition and its exhibit catalog.… Continue Reading
Digital Projects Status Page
Over the past couple of years, the digital projects team in Shared User Services has been actively assisting campus libraries in organizing their work on digital collections, and making them available online. Thirty-one such projects are now publicly accessible through… Continue Reading
Schedule Meetings More Easily with FindTime
FindTime is an Outlook add-in that allows you to easily identify and come to a consensus on meeting times. FindTime shows you the dates and times you and your attendees are available based on the free/busy data in Outlook calendars.… Continue Reading