Faculty and staff news from the libraries at Rutgers University-Newark.
We’re all attending lots of videoconferences and there are ways to make the experience better for both the host and remote sites. Here are some tips to insure everyone can see, hear, and participate regardless of where they are. Courtesy… Continue Reading
Retirement is defined as “withdrawal from one’s position or occupation or from active working life”. Retirement is the goal most employees look forward too. Others not so much. There are a lot of decisions to make and for many the… Continue Reading
New Brunswick Chancellor Edwards gifted each faculty and staff member of the Libraries with a small commemorative bell and provided us with funds toward an event to recognize the efforts of our colleagues throughout the anniversary year. So, we planned… Continue Reading
Save the date for Open Textbook Network Workshop – November 18, 2016 Rutgers University Libraries are excited to host a two-hour workshop for faculty which will be led by the Open Textbook Network, which is a national alliance of higher education… Continue Reading
In this column last month, I talked about changes in the organization that were designed to separate central and local responsibilities and to improve our information control functions, particularly in relation to the website, discovery infrastructure, and collections. Shifting the… Continue Reading
For two weeks in October, the Baltimore-based research center RIPM set up a scanner in the reading room of the Institute of Jazz Studies. The main objective was scanning the first few years of the venerated magazine Down Beat and… Continue Reading
The recent visit of Cape Town, South Africa Mayor Patricia de Lille furthers a relationship to the Institute of Jazz Studies that began in June when IJS Executive Director Wayne Winborne paid a two-week visit to the city. De Lille… Continue Reading
Where do you find population figures from a century ago? Health statistics over time in Newark, New Jersey or the U.S. as a whole? Business and economic or other information for those studying small business development or wanting to go… Continue Reading
In 1959 Rutgers president Dr. Mason Gross fired a blunt shot across the bow in the pages of the New York Times in his quest to pass a $75 million bond issue. His plea was as much about expansion of… Continue Reading
Imminent plans to develop the third floor of the John Cotton Dana Library by 2018 are integrated with a farsighted and sweeping reconceptualization of the role of libraries at the juncture where 21st-century pedagogy and information delivery meet. These were… Continue Reading