Chicago-Bound for Research Data Summit Congratulations to Yingting Zhang whose application for the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries’ Data Scholarship has been accepted. The award will support Yingting’s participation in the Research Data Access and Preservation Summit next year… Continue Reading
Honorable Achievements Sherri Farber, reference assistant at the Paul Robeson Library, received the Outstanding Student Award at the School of Communication and Information Honors Day 2017 for her work in the Master of Information Program. She is also a recipient… Continue Reading
About the Lectures: The Annual Louis Faugères Bishop III Bishop Lectures are named in memory of the son of Louis Faugères Bishop, Jr., a prominent cardiologist and book lover with close family ties to Rutgers and New Brunswick– for example,… Continue Reading
An Unexpected Visit Last month, Carr Library received an unexpected visit from artist Katya Silis, whose father Nikolai is the sculptor of Don Quixote with a Flower, the statue that sits adjacent to the walkway leading to the entrance of… Continue Reading
The True History of Puss in Boots on Mars – written by rare book librarian Michael Joseph and illustrated by Alexander Library Shipping and Receiving Coordinator Henry Charles – is just now out from Cats in the Basement Press. The… Continue Reading
2016 was a busy year for us all, including Cabinet where we met 32 times. Sometimes it may seem like we’re moving slowly and our projects can occasionally get lost in the wash of minutes and meetings (seriously, how many… Continue Reading
The Libraries’ Digital Humanities Working Group, with the support of Integrated Information Systems, just launched an informal digital publishing service offering two popular open source platforms: WordPress and Omeka. Both are relatively easy to learn, and allow users to develop… Continue Reading
Living in the Shadows: Underground Immigrant Communities For the spring semester, the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries at Douglass Library will feature a group exhibit titled Living in the Shadows: Underground Immigrant Communities from January 17 through April… Continue Reading
Ron Becker will retire from the Libraries at the end of the semester after 43 years of service, the last 25 of which were spent as head of Special Collections and University Archives. During this time, Ron oversaw a period… Continue Reading