Rutgers University Libraries are pleased to introduce BrowZine, a current awareness tool that allows users to find, read, and monitor the top scholarly journals in their field from almost any device.
BrowZine improves discovery of current issues of academic journals and provides streamlined access to full-text via PC, tablet, or smartphone. It also offers useful personalization features so users can keep current with their favorite publications.
BrowZine users can:
Browse thousands of top academic journals by subject, title or ISSN; review current tables of contents, and download full-text articles published since 2005
Follow and receive new article notifications for their favorite journals by creating a personal bookshelf
Save and export articles to services such as DropBox, Mendeley, RefWorks, EndNote, and Zotero
Although it provides access to thousands of titles from major academic publishers, BrowZine does not include every journal available at Rutgers or cover issues published before 2005. It also does not include non-scholarly periodicals such as newspapers, magazines, and trade publications. Access to the Libraries’ complete periodical holdings is available via QuickSearch.
Hosted by the Eagleton Institute of Politics, The Morning After panel discussion will feature analysis of the results and implications of the 2018 elections.
Panelists include:
Mike DuHaime, Partner, Mercury Public Affairs; Republican Strategist
Michael Hill, Correspondent, NJTV
Herb Jackson, The Record/USA Today Network New Jersey
Debbie Walsh, Director, Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics
Moderator: John Weingart, Associate Director, Eagleton Institute of Politics
Mineral Late Night
Wednesday, November 7 | 4 to 8 p.m.
Rutgers Geology Museum | Rutgers–New Brunswick
Visit the Rutgers Geology Museum for their Mineral Late Night on November 7. Re-use your Halloween costume and come dressed as your favorite super hero while learning about some powerful minerals!
Demonstrations, arts and crafts, and educational activities will be set up around the museum and people are welcome to come and go as they please. The event is free and open to visitors of all ages. Visit the museum website for more information.
A Conversation with Gov. James Florio
Thursday, November 8 | 6 to 8 p.m. Campus Center | Rutgers–Camden
James J. Florio, a former New Jersey governor and an alumnus of the Camden location of Rutgers Law School, will discuss topics from his new book, Standing on Principle: Lessons Learned in Public Life. This free event will feature a conversation between Governor Florio and retired Philadelphia Inquirer reporter George Anastasia. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. Register to attend.
Behind the Magic of Disney: Is It Really Happily Ever After?
Wednesday, November 28 | 2:30 to 3:50 p.m. Paul Robeson Campus Center | Rutgers–Newark
This event is an open discussion on how gender roles, violence, and oppression have been masked in magic. Join the Rutgers Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance to explore the hidden messages in classic Disney films. Visit the Rutgers–Newark website for more information.
New technology and better solutions keep coming, as we all know. By joining the University’s central Rutgers Active Directory as the Libraries’ Windows domain, we are expanding the ability to log in anywhere with a single username. But it obviously comes with new issues as many have noticed.
IIS is inviting everyone in the Libraries to submit such issues and any other computing concerns and requests using the RULhelp trouble ticket system. It is the best way to keep track of issues, make sure that every one of them is addressed in a timely manner, and develop our knowledge base to speed up resolution. Instead of emailing or calling UCSs or other IIS staff, please use this address to submit a ticket: support@rulhelp.rutgers.edu It will be automatically channeled to the IT support closest to you.
IIS is working on transforming the RULhelp database to use NetIDs (instead of old Windows usernames) just like most other platforms. Soon, you will be able to log into the trouble ticket system with your NetID to check the status of your issue.
The fall semester has started, and September 5 marks the third month of Alma and QuickSearch implementation. We have focused on rectifying known problems in preparation for the new school year, and have made many improvements to the system and the services it provides. Thanks to feedback from users and library staff, we are continually making improvements to the system. We encourage and welcome your input and questions—submit them by visiting https://apps.libraries.rutgers.edu/ex-libris/contact.
As reported in the July update, the Implementation Team visited all four campuses in August. During those meetings, the team reported on the respective working groups and held discussions with library personnel. We appreciate the fact that people took the time to participate in these sessions and provided thoughtful feedback and questions. The discussions were lively and productive.
The Implementation Team would like to take this opportunity to share the following updates:
A QuickSearch tutorial has been created and will be available this fall. An announcement is forthcoming.
The library names facet in Primo has been revised to reflect abbreviated and more commonly known library names, making it more usable for patrons. For example, Archibald S. Alexander Library will now display as “Alexander Library”.
856 links to finding aids and other materials are now available in the “Links” section of QuickSearch records.
Sign in has been improved to allow users to sign in with fewer actions and to more easily access account options such as loans, requests, and favorites.
Database lookup has been enabled so that users who enter database names (PubMed, JSTOR, Factiva) in the search box get a direct link to that resource at the top of their search results.
An open access filter is now available in QuickSearch, enabling users to limit results to content published in open access publications.
A number of fields are now available in QuickSearch record displays, including uniform title, language, identifier, related work, and several local note fields (e.g., general, bound with, performer, production credits, donor, and finding aid). Additionally, the donor note is now searchable, making it easier to identify specific gift collections and to retrieve records for items in those collections.
Harvard has been added to the list of citation options and MLA has been updated to the 8th edition.
Users can now save records to Zotero.
Users are now able to pick up materials from off-site delivery locations, such as the law libraries.
A new marketing campaign for QuickSearch will be unveiled this fall.
The Implementation Team’s website is available at https://apps.libraries.rutgers.edu/ex-libris. It includes the various teams and working groups associated with the implementation, a timeline for the project, resources, an FAQ, and a list of known issues for Alma and QuickSearch (alias Primo). The team is working through both lists of issues, and the lists are updated as progress is made and issues are resolved.
We are fully aware that our experience with QuickSearch and Alma is one of learning and trial and error. The Implementation Team values input and collaboration from the Libraries as well as our user community to continually refine and improve this service.
Conceiving New Tools for Public Health Researchers
In April 2018, JSTOR and Rutgers University convened a workshop of scholars, librarians, and students to brainstorm new ways to support public health researchers. Using a series of design thinking activities, they conceived a number of new tools and services, which were subsequently user-tested with both students and faculty. This video describes that work, shares the ideas that emerged, and presents the findings from the users tests.
Exploring the Rutgers Female Institute
A new post on the Rutgers Classics Department’s blog by professor T. Corey Brennan explores the classical roots of the Rutgers Female Institute, and also gives a nice shout out to our colleagues Kayo Denda and Fernanda Perrone for their work on The Douglass Century. Read the blog here.
Chantel Harris (third from left) was recently named an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the sorority her great-great-grandmother founded. Photo: Houston Style Magazine.
Congratulations to AKA’s Newest Honorary Member
Chantel Harris was named an honorary member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority this summer. Chantel is the great-great granddaughter of the sorority’s founder, Ethel Hedgeman Lyle. “Mrs. Harris’ commitment to helping others started at a young age. Through her church she served the homeless and worked with the Circle of L.O.V.E (Let’s Overcome Violence Everywhere) program that was started by her grandmother and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Muriel “Puff” Lyle- Smith. Mrs. Harris continues to advocate for women and children in her community. She is currently working to eliminate hostile work environments and workplace bullying,” wrote Houston Style Magazine in its report in July. Congratulations, Chantel!
Tweeting in Defense of Libraries Everywhere
Katrina Zwaaf’s tweets were featured in articles from Gizmodo and Inside Higher Ed following the Forbes article (subsequently removed) that stated Amazon stores should replace libraries to save taxpayers money. Thank you, Katrina, for taking this stand on behalf of libraries and the people we serve.
Not everyone has a computer and internet access. The digital divide still exists. It’s unlikely that Amazon will help people with their reference inquiries or evaluating which sources are creditable and which are not.#LibrariesStillMatterhttps://t.co/6zBv6trkgL
The New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project recently received a second grant, totaling $216,609, from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The additional funding will allow for the digitization of additional historical newspapers for the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America website. Read more in this report from NJ101.5. Congratulations to project director Caryn Radick and the entire NJDNP team!
Krista White Making Waves
Kudos are in order for Krista White, who has had two pieces of good news come across her desk recently. First, she has received another Rutgers–Newark Chancellor’s Seed Grant to expand her Digital Scholarship as 21st Century Scholarship project. The second grant—totaling $33,130, more than three times the initial award—will support Digital Scholarship as Modular Pedagogy, allowing Krista to develop curricular materials to share with faculty members and train them so that they can add digital scholarship and ACRL Framework elements into courses.
Next, Krista reports that the special issue of College & Undergraduate Libraries titled “The Digital Humanities: Implications for Librarians, Libraries, and Librarianship”—which includes an article she contributed—has been so well-received that Taylor & Francis has decided to publish it as a monograph through Routledge. Keep an eye out for it in January 2019. Congratulations, Krista, on all this fantastic recognition!
Mapping Philadelphia’s Historical Bike Routes
Julie Still’s article in Hidden City Philadelphia details her project to digitize the Philadelphia Inquirer’s column “Trips Awheel: Where to Go and How to Get There,” which appeared in 1897 and 1898. In addition to hand-drawn maps of each route, the column, written by Alphonse Estoclet, featured a unique blend of commentary and narrative. “The routes themselves read much as modern travel blogs do, with reference to historical, cultural, culinary, and financial aspects of the area,” Julie writes. View the research guide she created to document the project here.
Inspiring Librarians across the Country–with Buttons!
Megan Lotts and Tara Maharjan got a nice shout out on the Library Think Tank Facebook group last week for their recent article on button making: “Due to some major semester reorganization, our library lost a freshmen orientation event that we loved. We brainstormed an alternative Welcome event. We read the article about button making at Rutgers in College and Research Libraries News. My husband just happens to be the proud owner of a 40 year old button maker. We bought supplies and printed some images from our Archives. Our FTE is about 1200 and we made over 90 buttons yesterday (not everyone wanted a button). Students, faculty and staff all requested buttons. It was a blast,” wrote Mary Jackson, research and instruction librarian at Milligan College in Tennessee. Congratulations, Megan and Tara!
All that Jazz
Finally, Clement’s Place has announced a full schedule of events for the fall, including NJPAC Jam Sessions, the IJS Concert Series, and a new monthly series on Wednesdays called “Jazz973,” which focuses on local and emerging musicians. Clement’s is a really fantastic space and with all these events on tap, there’s never been a better time to check it out!
On September 1, the exhibition Self-Confessed! The Inappropriately Intimate Comics of Alison Bechdel, which encompasses the decades-long career of the illustrious cartoonist and graphic memoirist, opens at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers. It explores Bechdel’s work as a writer, an artist, and an archivist of the self, someone who constantly mines and shares her own experiences as a way to communicate something vitally human: the quest for love, acceptance, community, and social justice. Bechdel will speak at Rutgers on October 10.
In conjunction with U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s first memoir for young people, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers is pleased to announce the opening of The Art of Turning Pages: Illustrations by Lulu Delacre for Sonia Sotomayor’s Life Story on September 15. Justice Sotomayor shares her inspiring story about growing up and her deep love of reading inTurning Pages: My Life Story, which will be published by Philomel Books on September 4, along with a Spanish version, Pasando páginas: La historia de mi vida. The exhibition features nearly 30 objects on loan from award-winning children’s author and illustrator Lulu Delacre, including her oil and collage art, preparatory drawings, and research material, on public view for the first time. Bilingual labels, in English and Spanish, accompany the works. Ms. Delacre will speak at Art After Hours: First Tuesdays on October 2.
We’re shutting down Halsey from Central to New Streets with tons of activities, arts, games, food, drinks, mascots and more! Come one, come all, bring a friend, and enjoy a night and get a taste of why everyone is buzzing about Newark! This is going to be epic! Rain date: September 13. For more information, click here.
Panel Discussion: Child Separations at the Border Thursday, September 13, 12:45 to 1:45 p.m.
401 Penn Classroom, Rutgers–Camden
This free, public panel discussion will address the topic of children being separated from their parents at the United States-Mexico border. Panelists are: Ann Adalist-Estrin, director of the National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated at Rutgers–Camden; Joanne Gottesman,clinical professor and director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at Rutgers Law School; Lorrin Thomas, professor of history and chair of the Department of History; and John Wall, professor of religion and childhood studies and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. For more information, click here.
Fall Fest
Saturday, September 22, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Woodward Lawn, Rutgers–Newark
Come out and enjoy food, games, and activities on the Woodward Lawn with the rest of your fellow Rutgers University-Newark students. For more information, click here.
Finding and Facing Facts in Campaigns and Government w/ Eugene Kiely Monday, September 24, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Eagleton Institute, Rutgers–New Brunswick
Eagleton Institute of Politics presents its 2018 Arthur J. Holland Program on Ethics in Government lecture, “Finding and Facing Facts in Campaigns and Government” with Eugene Kiely, director of FactCheck.org and Rutgers alumnus. Monday, September 24 at 7:00 PM. Free, but registration is required. Click here to RSVP. For more information, click here.
An Evening with Colson Whitehead Wednesday, September 26, 7 p.m.
Walter K. Gordon Theater, Rutgers–Camden
Colson Whitehead, author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Underground Railroad, will give a free, public lecture. His novel is the 2018 selection for the Rutgers Reads program, which introduces incoming first-year students to academic life at Rutgers–Camden by reading and discussing one designated book. Register for this free event to reserve your seat. Email Rutgers Reads to be placed on a mailing list for more information, or click here.
Before we get swept away in another fall semester, I’d like to take one last opportunity to thank everyone who attended the faculty/staff picnic in August. It was a fantastic event–dry despite the forecast of rain–and the catering, games, and decorations all came together beautifully to make it feel like we were really enjoying an afternoon spent down the Jersey shore.
As I mentioned during the picnic, I’d had some remarks prepared but decided not to deliver them lest I distract too much from the festivities. So I thought that my contribution to the Agenda this month should include a brief list of the many achievements we’ve had cause to celebrate in the past year:
The successful implementation of QuickSearch, which was a true all-hands effort and impacted the work of just about everyone throughout the Libraries. I’m impressed with the way we came together to make the rollout happen and how diligently the Ex Libris Implementation Team has worked since then to make improvements in response to user feedback.
The OAT Program continued into its second year, bringing the total savings for Rutgers students up to $2.1 million.
The ORCID program exceeded its first year benchmark, facilitating over 1,800 ORCID connections at Rutgers.
We took major strides to bolster our collections, including the addition of the complete Elsevier
We began the extensive redesign of our website to make it more accessible and user friendly.
And there have been countless local programs and initiatives that made sure you were meeting the unique needs of your users. To name a few:
RBHS hosted traveling exhibits from the National Library of Medicine in Piscataway and Newark
Dana held award-winning boot camps for graduate students and celebrated its 50th anniversary
The States of Incarceration conference and institute brought together partners from across Rutgers–New Brunswick and New Jersey
We spearheaded a campus-wide celebration of Paul Robeson’s 120th birthday in Camden
The IJS made the news with its acquisition of the Count Basie Collection, as did the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive, which earned an Innovative Archives Award from MARAC.
Though they are really just the tip of the iceberg, these achievements are important not only because they support the local missions in Camden, New Brunswick, Newark, or RBHS, but because they also position the Libraries as a good collaborator on university-wide initiatives.
I know there is plenty of work on the horizon—from improving QuickSearch and running a new round of OAT awards to enhancing our instructional technology support with the launch of products like Credo, Pressbooks, Leganto, and illumira—but we should be extremely proud of what we’ve accomplished together so far and excited about all that’s yet to come.
Of course, the picnic would not have been possible without the thoughtful planning of the major events committee, so I’d like to recognize them all for their hard work and creativity—Matt Badessa, Matt Bridgeman, Janie Fultz, Chantel Harris, Tad Hershorn, Tara Kelley, Megan O’Connor, Erica Parin, Jessica Pellien, Antoinette Perkins, Daphne Roberts, and Rich Sandler—and thank all those who volunteered on the day of the event.
Congratulations, Irina, on winning the desk duty prize!
Last but not least, I want to acknowledge our colleagues who stayed behind to keep the libraries open while we enjoyed the party. As I mentioned in an earlier email, we held a special “desk duty” prize drawing this year, and I’m delighted to announce that Irina Loutchkina, library assistant at Alexander Library, was selected as our winner. Irina has received a prize pack including four football tickets from Rutgers Athletics, an RWJ Medical School tote bag, a beautiful hardbound Zimmerli exhibition catalog, a drink coozie and ID holder from the Division of Continuing Studies, a Libraries coffee mug, and more. Congratulations, Irina!
Thanks again to each and every one of you for all that you do on behalf of the Libraries. I can’t wait to see what we can accomplish in the 2018–2019 academic year and beyond.
It has been more than a year (March 2017) since I wrote an Agenda post about one of my favorite books on organizational success, Creativity Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace. What impressed me most about the success of Pixar was the approach to planning and problem solving that they used. The animated movies didn’t begin with a script; they started with an idea, which I think maps well in our environment for the purpose of an initiative.
It isn’t the release of The Incredibles 2 that has me thinking again about Pixar. (Although these hot, humid days of summer would be a perfect time to go to the movies.) What has me thinking about Pixar, and the creative process they use, is the release of our new library services platform.
I watched the implementation process unfold and realized that it had a lot in common with the way Pixar made films. The Ex Libris Implementation Team was not given a script for the implementation. They had a list of deliverables but were never given quite enough of the plot to decide what exactly to do. Primo/Alma is a platform, and configuration decisions vary depending on factors such as your current environment and the workflows you are trying to establish.
We had an idea of what we wanted: integrated workflows for staff, improved ability to generate statistics and assess our collection, and the reduction of silos for our users. The problem is that there is no single right way to implement Primo/Alma. The decisions that the Ex Libris Implementation Team made along the way depended on the workflows and functions we were trying to support. We had some idea of what those would be but were not quite sure how they would fit together. To make matters more complicated, the timeline for implementation was only six months (by comparison, The Incredibles 2 was 12 years in the making!). Finally, the implementation team brought together people from different backgrounds. Although each person has an area of specialty, no one person had the expertise to solve the problem alone.
The group worked together to develop the plot and the script. I will say that, from the sidelines, there were times when it was stressful for the group members as they struggled to determine how best to move forward. Like the folks at Pixar, they worked together and solved problems quickly. In the words of Catmull, “…if you put your faith in slow, deliberative planning in the hopes it will spare you failure down the line—well, you’re deluding yourself.” The group planned, but at some point (perhaps much earlier than any of them wanted) they had to test their plans. There were definitely mistakes along the way but again, as Catmull says, “Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new.”
The original group consisted of:
Tao Yang (co-lead)
Interim AUL for Collection Development and Management
Resource Sharing
Chad Mills
Digital Library Architect
Digital Collections, Data Migration & Systems Integration
Abbey DiPaolo (co-lead)
Director of Financial Planning and Business Operations
Acquisitions
Gracemary Smulewitz
Head of Collection Services and Resources Sharing
Electronic Resources
Chris Sterback
Integrated Information System Administrator
Data Migration & Systems Integration
Joseph Deodato
Discovery Services Librarian
Discovery
Mary Beth Weber
Head of Central Technical Services
Resource Management
Because of identified gaps, several other people were later added to the group.
Laura Costello
Virtual Reference Services Librarian
Fulfillment
Amy Kimura
Web Services Librarian
Website Design and Updates
Jessica Pellien
Director of Communications and Web
Communications & Marketing
I have to say that I am completely impressed by the team. The breadth and depth of knowledge in the group will provide the Libraries with a strong foundation for the future. They all know how the pieces fit together and how they can continue to make the system better. And each member of the team has worked with other groups to implement aspects of the platform, drawing on a broader range of expertise while exponentially increasing the reach of this knowledge. As an organization, we are not reliant on a few gurus with all of the answers.
This is only the beginning. There are plenty of issues to address, some we know about and more that will be uncovered. Borrowing one last time from Catmull’s insights on Pixar, I like to think that what makes the Libraries special “is that we acknowledge we will always have problems, many of them hidden from our view; that we work hard to uncover these problems, even if doing so means making ourselves uncomfortable; and that, when we come across a problem, we marshal all of our energies to solve it.” This is the new world in which we live, and—thanks to the work of the Ex Libris Implementation Team and the lessons we’ve learned along the way—we are now better prepared to thrive in it.
As I’m sure you’re all aware, the annual American Library Association conference was held last month in New Orleans, Louisiana. Rutgers was well represented, with plenty of posters and presentations being delivered by folks from the Libraries (check out our Faculty & Staff News page for more details). I reached out to our colleagues for their takeaways from the conference—here’s what they had to say.
Tara Maharjan (l.) and Megan Lotts (r.) presented on using a button maker for outreach to students. Credit: Megan Lotts.
Jordan Nielsen’s poster was titled “Mapping the Undergraduate Business School Curriculum: A Targeted Approach to Library Outreach & Instruction.” Credit: Megan Lotts.
Bonnie Fong and her poster on equity, diversity, and inclusion in a science librarian organization. Credit: Bonnie Fong.
Bonnie was busy! Here she is with her poster on boot camps for graduate students.
As the section’s incoming chair, Lily Todorinova had the honor of presenting the Emerging Technologies Section Achievement Award to the Library of Congress’s Donna Brearcliffe. Credit: Lily Todorinova.
Katie Anderson: I had the opportunity to learn more about ACRL’s Signature Initiative on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) during the ACRL Leadership meeting. Everyone is encouraged to take this quick poll (open until July 13, 2018) for feedback on priorities. Along with the many business meetings for my section (Anthropology and Sociology Section), a highlight of the conference was a program addressing equity, diversity, and inclusion in academic libraries. Three panelists presented an engaging and thought-provoking program to a packed room entitled “When to Speak Up, When to Listen: Allyship, Race, and Communication in the Academic Library”.
Megan Lotts: What I enjoyed most about our poster session was learning more about what’s happening at other libraries, as well as sharing what we are up to at Rutgers. I also met a woman who is on a design team in Newark, I think within the libraries, and she was excited to take home a Rutgers button, so she could wear it to her next meeting. Kind of warmed my heart, total cheese, but true story. It was also great presenting at the same time as Jordan. I learned more about my RU colleague’s work, and we got to take pictures of each other!
Christie Lutz: It’s tough to beat the food and architecture (and heat) in New Orleans, but at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) conference I had a great experience presenting on the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive and chatting with people about music scenes and special collections. And I conducted some inadvertent collection development—I met a conference attendee from the University of Delaware who is married to a former Court Tavern bouncer, and she texted him right away about my presentation and it looks like he’ll be donating! I attended some thought-provoking sessions as well, in particular on challenges and new ways of thinking in archival collection management, and challenges and opportunities in working with underrepresented communities in developing their own archives.
Tara Maharjan: What I took away from the conference was that a lot of people stopped by and mentioned that their institutions already had a button maker, but were not really using it. People were surprised that we were using it to promote collections, talk about copyright, collaborate with departments, as well as a fun tool to engage with students. I also learned that I apparently talk with my hands in a lot of photos!
Lily Todorinova: I am the incoming chair of the Emerging Technologies Section (ETS), which is part of the ALA Reference & User Services Association. As part of my section, I attended an interesting session regarding formal vs. informal project management, how to make a decision matrix, as well as “rightsizing” projects. It was super useful.
Zara Wilkinson: My co-authors and I presented at the Library Research Round Table (LRRT) Research Forum. The forum had a total of four presentations, so we got to hear about a group of diverse research projects, from first generation college students’ experiences using the library to the resources and repertoire knowledge catalogers rely on in their day-to-day work. I enjoyed the breadth of topics and methodologies, especially in the context of our own project, which examined academic librarians’ experiences with research and their successful development of research skills and confidence.
The team is planning to visit each campus where we will hold open Q&A sessions. This will be an open forum where you can bring any questions or concerns you have about QuickSearch, Alma, or related processes.
After much planning and preparation from all of the Libraries, QuickSearch and Alma went live on June 5. It’s so hard to believe that we are already almost four weeks past go live! The implementation team would like to thank everyone for your hard work in making go live a success. Each and every person in the Libraries has helped move us forward, be it by serving on a working group, attending a training, or by submitting a help ticket to point out a concern. We couldn’t have done it without you!
Of course, we also continue to experience bumps along the way, but this is expected with an implementation this large. The team has spent much of the time since our last post focused on those bumps… addressing critical post-go live activities, implementing fixes, and responding to help tickets. In addition, we are reviewing our lists of known issues and possible future improvements in order to prioritize items for completion. The website will be updated with this information as soon as the process is complete.
The team is also planning to visit each campus where we will hold open Q&A sessions. This will be an open forum where you can bring any questions or concerns you have about QuickSearch, Alma, or related processes. Be on the lookout for an announcement about dates in the very near future. Your feedback is critical and we really hope that you will join us.
Lastly, as Tao steps away from the team, I would like to thank him for his contributions to the group and to the project. I know that we will all miss working with him as we continue to forge ahead.
Rutgers University Libraries are pleased to introduce BrowZine, a current awareness tool that allows users to find, read, and monitor the top scholarly journals in their field from almost any device.
The Morning After
Mineral Late Night
A Conversation with Gov. James Florio
Behind the Magic of Disney: Is It Really Happily Ever After?
