The Budget Process and Library Impact on Student Outcomes

With the last of the Welcome Days events now completed and the start of the fall semester fully complete, it is time to turn our attention to another annual tradition: the preparation of our annual budget request. Each year, we… Continue Reading

The Rutgers University Libraries Website Style Guide from Integrated Information Systems

The Rutgers University Libraries Website style guide explains the rules and conventions that go into defining typography and the appearance of website elements on our website. Its goal is to provide a cohesive and coherent experience for website users and… Continue Reading

Report from Social Media Summit 2017

Video: Rutgers communications professionals discuss social media planning and how to best reach users.   The Libraries held our second Social Media Summit on July 20, 2017. The full-day event, hosted by the Social Media Task Force, was broken into… Continue Reading

Back to School Outreach to Our Users

The fall semester officially begins in four days, and we are prepared. Matt Badessa made this wonderful welcome video for our students. We weren’t sure how it would turn out, so we kept the project relatively small and only interviewed… Continue Reading

Human Resources – Dates to Remember for Open Enrollment & Flu Shots

Two bits of news from the Rutgers University Libraries Human Resources Department: There will be a clinic for annual flu shots on October 4, 2017 at 11:00 in the Pane Room at Alexander Library. University Human Resources (UHR) will host… Continue Reading

New Resources from the Communications Department

The following resources are now available on the communications department website. We hope you find them useful. We’re trying to actively identified shared resources that we can supply to save our colleagues time and to create a cohesive visual identity… Continue Reading

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Notes on 2017 WLIC, 83rd IFLA General Conference and Assembly

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The 2017 IFLA WLIC took place in Wroclaw, a lovely city in the southwestern region of Poland from 19 to 25 August, 2017. With the theme Libraries. Solidarity. Society, the congress brought together thousands of representatives of the library field. IFLA’S Global Vision brainstorming that started earlier this year… Continue Reading

Where in the World is Shared User Services?

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Nearly a year ago, the Libraries reorganized to form a central user services unit, Shared User Services. While we are still building, major structures are coming together. Here’s a progress report to let you know who we are, where you… Continue Reading

2017 Faculty and Staff Appreciation Picnic

I know everyone has been busy over the summer preparing for the fall semester (or recovering from not one, but two major floods in a week!) and it is almost here. Before we get caught up in the work of… Continue Reading

Quick Takes on Events and News — September 2017

Native Arts Expert Visits Alexander Library on September 19 Join the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission and Rutgers University Libraries at Rutgers–New Brunswick in welcoming John Haworth, senior executive emeritus of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian… Continue Reading