As the editor of a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, I interact with many people. I work closely with potential authors during the review and publication process, and often keep in touch with some of them after their papers have been published.… Continue Reading
By Judit H. Ward and Nicholas Allred New Brunswick Libraries partnered with the Student College, Academic, and Research Libraries Association (SCARLA), the Library and Information Science Student Association (LISSA), and the SC&I Alumni Association to host an online Banned Books… Continue Reading
Did you know Camden, New Jersey was once considered the epicenter of the American recording industry with the likes of Elvis, Duke Ellington, and Marian Anderson all cutting records at the RCA-Victor Recording Studios? This is just one of the… Continue Reading
In early October the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the Music Library Association (MLA) co-published a new open-access ebook, Archival Description of Notated Music (ADNM), co-authored by the MLA Working Group for Archival Description of Music Materials, which I… 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
The website redesign project team has completed baseline usability testing and analysis, and we’ve combined that with other research from the discovery process and are now moving into wireframing. Using the ideas generated during prototyping sessions last month with each… Continue Reading
Alma Analytics Upgrade Alma Analytics will be upgraded the week of November 1. Users who want to retain their personal reports in My Folders after the upgrade will need to save a copy in the Analytics shared folder’s Migration directory… Continue Reading
It has been eight months since the university moved online and it is still difficult to believe that it is real. The sudden change that we experienced is gradually transitioning to a new normal, along with the insight that it… Continue Reading
2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) granting women the right to vote. In celebration of this milestone, Rutgers Research Professor Emerita of History Ann D. Gordon will give a presentation, “Bringing the Story Home: Agitating for… Continue Reading
Rutgers University Libraries to Screen Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook Followed by Panel of Experts National Voter Registration Day Tuesday, September 22, 7 pm – 8:30 pm “When you deprive people of the right to vote, the vote being the… Continue Reading