Year End Carryover Accrual Review For Employees Who Accrue Paid Time Each Month

Employees that are eligible to accrue paid time off should review year-end carryover accruals and discuss with supervisors to use excess vacation time prior to the June 30, 2017 deadline.  Staff may carry over one year accrual plus the time… Continue Reading

Rutgers Archivists and Librarians Rock Newark MARAC

The Spring 2017 MARAC conference was held from April 20-22 at Newark’s Robert Treat Hotel. MARAC, which stands for “Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference,” is a volunteer, regional consortium of archivists who live and work in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New… Continue Reading

Deep Dive: JAMAevidence

Deep Dive will give a bit more insider’s info on some of our resources. Here, Roberta Fitzpatrick gives us some more information about JAMAevidence. In 1990, Dr. Gordon Guyatt, Internal Medicine residency program director at McMaster University in Canada began… Continue Reading

The Kopp Dataset Is Now Available in RUcore

The Research Data Exploratory Team and members of the Software Architecture Working Group collaborated with Professor Robert Kopp and D.J. Rasmussen to ingest and provide access to an impressive collection of county-level climate change projection data that is now available… Continue Reading

Excerpt from “Forgotten Heroes: New Jerseyans and Rutgers Alumni During the Great War” at What Exit?

This month, What Exit? from Special Collections and University Archives featured two long forgotten New Jersey heroes, using materials from the Rutgers College War Service Bureau and the Terradell Family Papers. Excerpt: With a growing number of Rutgers men in Uncle… Continue Reading

Annual Celebrations for Staff and Faculty of Rutgers University Libraries (2017)

The University is recognizing faculty and staff who are celebrating a decade increment of employment at Rutgers. We are delighted to announce that 14 of our colleagues were included in the festivities and hope you join us in congratulating them… Continue Reading

Rutgers Connect Tips and Tricks

How to create a calendar appointment from an email message   With so many events publicized via distribution lists like RUL_Everyone and other University-wide lists, it may be difficult to keep track of meetings, webinars, training sessions, speakers, and other… Continue Reading

The Results of Our Budget Request for FY2018

In recent months, we have spent a lot of time talking about organizational changes and the advantages of breaking down silos. This month, I want to discuss a shining example of what we accomplish when we work together—the outcome of… Continue Reading