Join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our Rutgers University Libraries colleagues. Submit faculty and staff news to Rutgers University Libraries Communications. *Note that as of November 2016, this replaces the tri-annual report.

May 2023

Comings & Goings:

Richard Jutkiewicz joined Smith Library as Head of Access Services on May 1.

March 2023

Comings & Goings:

Yan Lu retired as Library Associate II at Scholarly Communication and Collections, effective March 1.

Iliana Bernal retired as Library Associate I at Dana Library, effective March 1.

Hadiyah Sellers joined Rutgers University Libraries as Human Resources Manager, effective March 13.

February 2023

Comings & Goings:

Stephanie Bartz retired as Government Resources and Information Services Librarian and NTT Librarian of Practice III at New Brunswick Libraries, effective February 1. > Read more

Tajah Ebram was appointed Black Studies Librarian at New Brunswick Libraries, effective February 1.

Xueying Ren resigned as Information and Education Librarian at Smith Library, effective February 1.

Christine Williams retired as Library Specialist III at Smith Library, effective February 1.

January 2023

Articles:

Weaver, S. H., de Cordova, P. B., Vitale, T. R., Hargwood, Pam, and Salmond, S. (2023). Experiences and perceptions of nurses working night shift: a qualitative systematic review. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 21(1), 33–97. > Link to article

Comings & Goings:

Jamie Friday retired as Library Technician I at Smith Library, effective January 1.

Mina Ghajar was appointed Education and Research Librarian at Smith Library, effective January 1.

Erika Gorder was appointed University Archivist for Special Collections and University Archives, effective January 1. > Read more

Nancy Kranich accepted an appointment at the School of Communication and Information, effective January 1.

Yini Zhu retired as Managing Librarian and Acting Associate Director at Smith Library, effective January 1. > Read more

Ayesha Salim resigned as Business Specialist at Dana Library, effective January 21.

Maria Deptula joined Smith Library as Health Sciences Collections Librarian on January 23.

December 2022

Articles:

Bagchi, A. D., Hargwood, Pam, Saravana, A., DiBello, A. M., D’Alonzo, K. T., and Jadotte, Y. (2022). Methods of training lay individuals in the use of evidence-based services for the management of mental and behavioral health disorders: a scoping review protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 20(12), 3034–3044. > Link to article | > Primo link

Avendano, J.P., Sudah, S.Y., Gencarelli, P., Imam, N., Manzi, J.A., Ghajar, Mina, Menendez, M.E. and Nicholson, A.D. (2022). The learning curve for anatomic and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty: A systematic review. JSES Reviews, Reports, and Techniques. Published online. > Link to article

Comings & Goings:

Tara Maharjan resigned as Processing Archivist for Special Collections and University Archives, effective December 2.

Presentations:

Roux, Y. and Wagner, Victoria. Navigating the Copyright Maze, presentation for NJASL: New Jersey Association of School Librarians annual conference, Atlantic City, NJ, December 5, 2022.

November 2022

Articles:

McAllister, J. and Jonathan Torres. (2022). “Discovering Open Access Trends in Engineering: A Bibliometric Analysis of Open Access Publications at a Large Research University.” Science & Technology Libraries, 42(1), 1–18. > Link to article

Books:

Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino published Virtual Technical Services: A Handbook in May 2022 (Rowman & Littlefield, 9781538152621), which stemmed from their experience working remotely during the COVID-19 quarantine. The book received a positive review in Library Journal, describing it as “required reading for librarians and administrators of all types of libraries.” Virtual Technical Services is also included in Library Journal’s Best Books of the Month for November 2022.

Book Chapters:

Maxwell, Julia, Gorecki, K., Henyard, R., & Morse, B. A. B. “Chapter 4: Centering Justice in Content Development: A Case Study of the Police Brutality Teach-Out.” In Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice, edited by CJ Ivory and Angela Pashia, 57–78. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries, 2022. > Link

Comings & Goings:

Paul Cabelli retired as Library Associate II, Administration and Technology, effective November 1.

Pamela Waid resigned as Manager of Human Resources for Rutgers University Libraries, effective November 19.

Michele Petosa is serving as Acting Manager of Human Resources for Rutgers University Libraries, effective November 11.

Jonathan Lasky joined New Brunswick Libraries as Library Associate II, effective November 14.

Hannah D’Erasmo joined Administration and Technology as Library Associate I on November 28.

Jacqueline Hutton joined Dana Library as Library Associate II, effective November 28.

Priyanka Naik joined Dana Library as Administrative Assistant, effective November 28.

Panelists:

Maxwell, Julia. Gorecki, K., Henyard, R. Panel: “Using OER to Promote Social Justice.” University of West Georgia Libraries. November 2022.

Presentations:

Bart Everts spoke with undergraduate students about resources and research at the Camden Office of Student Success’ “The End is Near” event on November 1.

Julia Maxwell. “Navigating Dis- and Misinformation: Tips for Everyday Life on the Internet for Oakland Livingston Human Service (OLHS) Social Workers Training.” Online. October 2022.

September/October 2022

Articles:

Park, Selena U., Devika Sachdev, Shelley Dolitsky, Matthew Bridgeman, Mark V. Sauer, Gloria Bachmann, and Juana Hutchinson-Colas, “Fertility preservation in transgender men and the need for uniform comprehensive counseling,” F&S Reports (Fertility and Sterility), volume 3, issue 3, September 2022, pages 253–263. > Link to article

Holmes-Price, Oriana, Samantha Kannegiser, Erika Pitsker, and Zara Wilkinson, “Small Actions, Big Impact: Centering Student Voices and Advocacy with a Library Student Advisory Board,” College & Research Libraries News, 83, no. 3 (2022): 105–109. > Link to article

Wilkinson, Zara, “Throwing the University Wide Open: Textbook Affordability and COVID-19,” In Fostering Student Success: Academic, Social, and Financial Initiatives, edited by Sigrid Kelsey, 135–148, Chicago: American Library Association, 2022.

Valenza, Joyce Kasman, Cara Berg, Rebecca Bushby, Leslin H. Charles, Heather A. Dalal, Joan Dalrymple, and Megan Demspey, “What’s in a Frame? Perspectives of high school librarians and first-year college students,” College & Research Libraries News, vol. 83, no. 9 (2022). > Link to article

Books:

Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino were interviewed by Lauren Hays, a guest blogger for the Lucidea “Think Clearly” blog, about their recently published book, Virtual Technical Services: A Handbook (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). Read the interview here.

Comings & Goings:

Judy Cohn retired as Assistant Vice President for University Libraries and Associate University Librarian at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) Libraries, effective September 1. > Read more

Todd Pickens joined Dana Library as Library Supervisor I on September 12.

Jodi Costeira was promoted to Business Assistant, effective October 1, and relocated to the Technical Services Building.

Bonnie Fong resigned as Physical Sciences Librarian, effective October 8, to become Head of Research and Reference Services at Montclair State University.

Charles Casseus joined New Brunswick Libraries as Lead Library Utility Worker, effective October 10.

Laura Costello was appointed Director of Strategic Planning and Assessment for Rutgers University Libraries, effective October 10.

James (Jamey) Silverstein was promoted to Library Associate II for the Annex and Carr Library, effective October 10.

Corinne Suarez was promoted to Library Associate II, joining the Access Services Team at Douglass Library, effective October 10.

Lauren Levinson joined Administration and Technology as Library Associate I on October 17.

Service Anniversaries:

Barry Lipinski, Library Supervisor I at Carr Library, celebrates 40 years of service.

July/August 2022

Articles:

Palumbo, L.B, Bussmann, J., & Kern, B. (2022). “A view from the top: Library leaders’ predictions for the future of science liaison librarianship.” Library Leadership and Management. 36(1). > Link to article

Geigle, P. R., Van Wingerden, A., Biondi, M., Gangaway, J., Modica, S., Morris, D., Salem, Y., & Brody, L. T. (2022). “Exercise in the Aquatic Environment for People With Primary Hip Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses.” Journal of Aquatic Physical Therapy, 30(2), 44–57. > Link to article  > Read more

Comings & Goings:

Leila Uhl resigned as Administrative Assistant at Dana Library on August 31.

Julia Maxwell joined New Brunswick Libraries as Social Sciences Librarian on August 15.

John Brennan was promoted to Senior Executive Assistant to the Vice President for University Libraries and University Librarian, effective August 6. > Read more

Nita Mukherjee retired from her position as Branch Coordinator for the Stephen and Lucy Chang Science Library, effective August 1. > Read more

Albert Lee joined Administration and Technology as Unit Computing Specialist on July 25.

Consuella Askew was appointed Vice President for University Libraries and University Librarian, effective July 18. > Read more

Thomas Denk joined RWJ Library as Library Technician I on July 13.

Maggie Harris-Clark retired from her position as Head of Access Services at Dana Library, effective July 1. > Read more

Roberta “Bobbie” Tipton retired from her position as Business Librarian at Dana Library, effective July 1. > Read more

Service Anniversaries:

Please join us in congratulating the colleagues listed below on their significant service milestones at Rutgers University Libraries. Their dedication to our students and faculty and contributions to the Libraries continue to play a significant role in our goal to support and enrich the instructional, research, and public service priorities of the University.

10 Years

Megan Lotts (NBL)
Megan O’Connor (Central)
Janice Pilch (NBL)
Corrine Suarez (Central)
Geoff Wood (Central)

20 Years

Josemiro Abad (Health Sciences)
Raymond Balter (NBL)
Isaiah Beard (Central)
James Galt (Health Sciences)
Triveni Kuchi (NBL)
David Kuzma (SC/UA)
Jim Niessen (NBL)
Fredrick Onorato (NBL)
Antoinette Perkins (Central)
Andrew Ruggiero (NBL)
Chris Sterback (Central)

30 Years

Kalaivani Ananthan (Central)
Michele Tokar (NBL)

40 Years

Iliana Bernal (IJS)

50 Years

Maggie Harris-Clark (Newark)

May/June 2022

Comings & Goings:

Dennis Mark joined Rutgers University Libraries as Director of Communications on June 1.

Leila Uhl joined Dana Library as Administrative Assistant on May 31.

Karen Rock-Agard joined Dana Library as Library Associate II, Access Services, on May 16.

Bret McCandless joined New Brunswick Libraries as Music and Performing Arts Librarian on May 2.

Presentations:

Barbalace, R., Lotts, M., Maharjan, T., “Bringing the Work Students Home: The Rutgers University Libraries Student Worker Program Goes Virtual,” Scholarly and Professional Actives Committee (SAPAC), June 13, 2022.

March/April 2022

Comings & Goings:

Lisa Ryder joined Rutgers University Libraries as Senior Web Content Specialist on March 14.

Sean Lorre joined the Institute of Jazz Studies at Dana Library as Managing Editor of the Journal of Jazz Studies on March 7.

July/August 2021

Articles:

Dee Magnoni, “Applying Design Concepts for the Cultivation of Cross-University Partnerships,” eCampus News, May 21, 2021. https://www.ecampusnews.com/2021/05/21/applying-design-concepts-for-the-cultivation-of-cross-university-partnerships/

Awards:

Fernanda H. Perrone is the 2021 winner of the Roger H. McDonough Award, sponsored by the New Jersey Studies Alliance, MARAC/NJ Caucus, NJLA History & Preservation Section, and the New Jersey Historical Commission.

Comings & Goings:

Ricardo Camposagrado has resigned from his position at Smith Library, effective August 6, 2021.

Tim Corlis is resigning from his position as head of preservation for Special Collections and University Archives, effective September 17, 2021.

Barbara Grau is retiring from her position as library assistant II, Interlibrary Loan Services, effective November 1, 2021.

Presentations:

Flota, B., Folk, A. L., Bonnie Fong, Iglesias, A., Lach, P. R., Lock, M. B., Mickey, B., “How We are Marching: EDI Efforts across ACRL,” American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, June 23-29, 2021.

Bonnie Fong, “Librarian as Partner in the Development of a New Physics Course, STEM Librarians Collaborative 2021 Meeting, July 21, 2021.

Clarke, J., Gao, W., Solomon, J., Vedantham, A., & Bonnie Fong, “Celebrating and Showing Support for Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Colleagues in Librarianship and in our Communities,” moderator, August 26, 2021.

Service:

Bonnie L. Fong was appointed to serve on the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Science & Technology Section (STS) Conference Program Planning  – Washington DC, 2022 Committee, starting July 2021.

Bonnie L. Fong was appointed to serve on the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Appointments Committee, starting in July 2021.

Laura Bowering Mullen has been appointed to the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Journal Article Versions (JAV) Revisions Working Group, 2021–.

Lily Todorinova has accepted an appointment as VALE OER Ambassador for the period May 1, 2021, to June 30, 2023.

Zara Wilkinson is serving on the campus-wide Rutgers-Camden Orientation Committee, including the Welcome Week, Parents Information, and Assessment subcommittees.

May/June 2021

Articles:

Leslin H. Charles & DeFabiis, W. “Closing the Transactional Distance in an Online Graduate Course through the Practice of Embedded Librarianship,” College & Research Libraries, 82(3): 370, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.82.3.370

Leslin H. Charles, “Using a TeachMeet Model to Enhance Collaboration in an Information Literacy Instruction Program,” Journal of Academic Librarianship. 47(5): 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102393

Christine A. Lutz, “Making a Scene: A Scenes Approach to Creating a Local Music Archive,” American Archivist 85, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2022).

Laura Palumbo, Bussmann, J., & Kern, B., “The Value of Subject Specialization and the Future of Science Liaison Librarianship,” College & Research Libraries, 82(4): 584, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.82.4.584

Jonathan M. Torres & Aaron Manjarrez-Dominguez, “Toward an Understanding of Open Access Trends in Business Schools: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Open Access Faculty Publications of Accounting Departments at Three Universities,” Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2021.1919822.

Awards:

Krista White has received an award to attend the 2021 Digital Humanities Research Institute at CUNY. During the eight-day institute in July, participants will receive intensive training in foundational digital research methods, assistance with planning local digital humanities workshops, and mentorship from past participants. Over the following academic year, participants will develop their own local digital humanities research institutes and contribute reflections on their experiences to a Guide to Leading Digital Humanities Research Institutes.

Books (including chapters):

Fernanda Perrone, On Account of Sex: The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage in Middlesex County (New Brunswick, NJ: Arts Institute of Middlesex County, 2021). http://www.middlesexcountynj.gov/Government/Departments/BDE/Documents/Arts_history_committee/monograph_OnAccountofSex_2021.pdf

Comings & Goings:

Martin Antonetti has accepted the position of Rare Books Assessment Librarian in Special Collections and University Archives effective July 1, 2021.

Congratulations Laura Mullen on her promotion to Librarian I!

Catherine Sauceda has resigned from her position as Library Associate in Central Technical Services effective July 1, 2021.

Presentations:

Laura Palumbo, “To be or not to be…ethical?” Lightning Talk, WILU 2021 Online Conference, June 22-25, 2021. https://wilu-conference.github.io/

Christine A. Lutz, “Teaching Archives Through Pop Culture Materials.” Association of College and Research Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (ACRL/RBMS) Annual Conference (virtual), June 9, 2021.

Bob Vietrogoski, “‘Agitation of the Question’: Dr. James McCune Smith and the New York Academy of Medicine, 1847 and 2018,” American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM), 94th Annual Meeting, opening plenary session, “First Do No Harm: Racism and Memory in the History of Medicine,” May 2021.

Bob Vietrogoski, “‘Agitation of the Question’: Dr. James McCune Smith and the New York Academy of Medicine, 1847 and 2018,” Librarians, Archivists, and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health Sciences (LAMPHHS), Annual Meeting, panel session on “Addressing Institutional Racism,” May 2021.

Mary Beth Weber participated in an expert panel for the graduate level MLS course “Preparing for the Job Market” offered by the Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver, on May 27, 2021. She also did a one-on-one mentoring session for a student who was interested in a career in technical services.

Service:

Christie Lutz has been appointed Coordinator of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) Mentoring Subcommittee of the Membership Development Committee for a one-year term beginning July 2021.

Christie Lutz has been appointed Co-Chair of the ACRL/RBMS Workshops Committee for a two-year term beginning July 2021.

Christie Lutz is serving on the Program and Publicity Committees of the RBMS Teaching with Primary Sources Unconference, July 20-21, 2021.

March/April 2021

Articles:

Katie Elson Anderson, “Getting Acquainted with Social Networks and Apps: Privacy during Pandemic and Protest,” Library Hi Tech News, 37(10): 5-10, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-10-2020-0093

Caryn Radick, “‘I Assumed It Was Urgent’: Helen Hurd’s Story,” Nursing Clio, March 16, 2021.

“I Assumed It Was Urgent”: Helen Hurd’s Story

Awards:

Archivists Christie Lutz and Caryn Radick of Special Collections and University Archives have been awarded the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance’s 2021 Teaching Award for their Byrne Seminar classes.

Comings & Goings:

Xueying Ren has accepted the position of Information & Education Librarian for Smith Library, effective April 5, 2021.

Lorraine Slavik has retired from her position as Administrative Assistant for Alexander and Art Libraries, effective April 1, 2021.

Service:

Bonnie Fong has been elected Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect for the ACRL Science & Technology Section effective July 1, 2021.

Mary Beth Weber has been appointed to the Library Publishing Coalition’s Professional Development Committee for a two-year term that begins in June 2021.

Presentations:

Leslin Charles, “Instructional Design Librarianship,” ANAMED Library, Koç University, Istanbul Turkey. Podcast, April 2021. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0XMOeQSlvUtnRAErWrc5Kh

January/February 2021

Comings & Goings:

Jamie Smith has resigned from her position as library supervisor in Holdings Management effective March 19, 2021.

Presentations:

Christie Lutz, Tara Maharjan, & Stephanie Crawford, “Going against the Archival Grain: Case Studies of Pop Culture Archives of a Music Scene, Regional Zines, and Local Beer,” Journal of the Archives and Records Association, 41(3): 254-273, 2021. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23257962.2020.1810005

Tara Maharjan, “Taking the Archives Out of the Basement: Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives’ Outreach Projects,” Bridging the Spectrum Conference, Catholic University of America, February 19, 2021.

Tara Maharjan, “Bringing the Libraries’ Work Study Home,” RUOnlineCon, March 15–16, 2021.

Service:

Christie Lutz has been elected as Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) Member-at-Large beginning July 2021.

November/December 2020

Articles:

Lily Todorinova and Zara T. Wilkinson, “Incentivizing faculty for open educational resources (OER) adoption and open textbook authoring,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 46(6), 1-10, 2020.

Awards:

The Chinese American Library Association (CALA) awarded Li Sun with the Jing Liao Research Award for her paper “Journals removed from DOAJ appearing within SCImagos ranks: A study of excluded journals in Learned Publishing,” Learned Publishing 32, no. 3 (2019). The award recognizes pursuit of excellence in research and service, and was established to honor Jing Liao (1954-2011), a long-time CALA member and a devoted and accomplished librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Comings & Goings:

Brenda Carter is retiring from her position as library assistant in the Monographs Cataloging and Database Management Section effective January 1, 2021.

Mendes Toussaint has retired from his position as library specialist at Smith Library effective November 2, 2020.

Service:

Mary Beth Weber has been accepted into the Rutgers Fall 2021 cohort of the OASIS Leadership and Professional Development program.

Consuella Askew has joined the Editorial Board of Portal: Libraries & the Academy.

September/October 2020

Articles:

Katie Elson Anderson, “‘Brand Twitter’ begets Metamodern Meat?,” What is Metamodern?, 2020. https://whatismetamodern.com/design-style-products/steak-umm-brand-twitter-metamodernism/

Judy Cohn spearheaded the effort and served as AAHSL Liaison and Advisory Committee member for the recently released Ithaka S+R Study “Academic Health Sciences Libraries: Structural Models and Perspectives.” https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.314248

Kristen M. Coppola, Laura Rees Willett, James Galt, and Sarang Kim, “Increasing Faculty Productivity through an Interprofessional Research Group, Medical Education 54(11): 1057-1058, 2020.

Julie M. Still, “Mille Pompons!; Fantômette, the Famous, Unknown, Schoolgirl Superhero of France,” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 12 (1), 168-83, 2017. https://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/article/view/519

Corey H Basch, Aleksandar Kecojevic, and Victoria H. Wagner, “Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Online Versions of Highly Circulated U.S. Daily Newspapers,” Journal of Community Health, September 2020: 1-9.

Judit Hajnal Ward, Allred, N., & Coffman, J., “Nyári történetek : virtuális könyvklub egy amerikai egyetemen [Summer Tales: Virtual book club at a North American university. In Hungarian],” Könyv, könyvtár, könyvtáros [Books, libraries, librarians], 29(7-8), 13-23, 2020.

Yingting Zhang and Judy Cohn were acknowledged as contributors in the following article: Wieder R; Carson JL; Strom B, “Restructuring of Academic Tracks to Create Successful Career Paths for the Faculty of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences,” Journal of Healthcare Leadership 202(12): 103-115.

Awards:

Janice Pilch is the recipient of the 2020 ASEEES CLIR Distinguished Service Award.

Comings and Goings:

Joseph Asaro will retire from his position as library assistant at Carr Library effective January 1, 2021.

Amber Judkins is resigning from her position as library assistant II at Dana Library effective November 4, 2020.

Teddoro Oblad has retired from his position as IST analyst at Smith Library effective November 1, 2020.

Bonnie Paz is retiring from her position as media services assistant at Dana Library effective December 1, 2020.

Gracemary Smulewitz has retired from her position as head of Collection Services and Resources Sharing effective November 1, 2020.

Books (including chapters):

Rhonda J. Marker, “Digital Exhibitions: Engaging in Public Scholarship with Primary Source Materials,” in Christopher J. Young, et al., eds., Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2020), 207-216.

Presentations:

Judy Cohn, Mina Ghajar, Yini Zhu, “Academics in Focus — Leganto Reading List Campus Engagement,”  Virtual Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, August 2020.

Tara Maharjan, “Taking the Archives Out of the Basement:  Rutgers Special Collection and University Archives’ Outreach Projects,” Arts Librarian Society of New Zealand and Australia Conference, November 2020. https://www.arlisanz.org/programme-in-detail

Tara Maharjan, Q&A with Preservation New Jersey Virtual Speaker Series, October 2020. https://princetoncomment.com/2020/10/08/social-media-mavens/

Rhonda J. Marker, “Sustaining Virtual Members in Professional Associations,” The Exchange: An ALCTS/LITA/LLAMA Collaboration, May 6, 2020.

Gelfand, J. & Laura Bowering Mullen, “It’s Nowhere or Nothing if Not Open: Successful Scholarship in a Time of Pandemic,” American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science, Technology and Human Rights Virtual Conference, October 23, 2020. https://www.aaas.org/coalition/conference/2020

Service:

Mina Ghajar has accepted an appointment as the Community Council Liaison for the Information Services Domain Hub of Medical Library Association.

Mina Ghajar is serving as the President of the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey (HSLANJ).

Yingting Zhang has been elected to serve as chair elect of the Medical Library Association New York-New Jersey Chapter for 2020-2021 and as chair for 2021-2022.

July/August 2020

Articles:

Katie Elson Anderson, “Getting Acquainted with Social Networks and Apps: Capturing and Archiving Social Media Content,” Library Hi Tech News, 37 (2): 18-22, 2020.

Katie Elson Anderson, “Getting Acquainted with Social Networks and Apps: It is Time to Talk about TikTok,” Library Hi Tech News, 37 (4): 7-12, 2020.

Judit Hajnal Ward, “Ha nyár, akkor hangoskönyv! [Summer: Time for Audiobooks. In Hungarian],” Könyv, könyvtár, könyvtáros [Books, libraries, librarians], 29(6), 3-15, 2020.

Awards:

The NJ Digital Newspaper Project was awarded a $251,536 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue its work as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program into 2022. The project will contribute 100,000 pages of digitized historical newspapers to the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America website. Caryn Radick is project director and Tara Kelley is co-principal investigator.

Books (including chapters):

Janet Brennan Croft and Kristine Larsen, eds., Journal of Tolkien Research: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Works of Joss Whedon, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020. https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol10/iss1/

Comings and Goings:

Janet Brennan Croft has accepted the role of the associate university librarian for the Content Discovery Division at the University of Northern Iowa.

Peggy Dreker has resigned from her position as information & education librarian at Smith Library effective September 5, 2020.

Presentations:

Mary Beth Weber, “Emergency Planning in Technical Services: Lessons from COVID-19,” moderator, ALCTS eForum, August 11-12, 2020.

Service:

Laura Bowering Mullen has been selected as convener for the Association of College & Research Libraries’ Research Assessment and Metrics Interest Group.

Zara Wilkinson has been appointed library resources associate to the Committee on Public Art and History: Representing Equity, Diversity, and Racial Justice on the Grounds of Rutgers–Camden.

Zara Wilkinson served on the Planning Committee of the Affordable Learning PA 2020 Summit.

May/June 2020

Articles:

Janet Brennan Croft, “‘It’s Good to Be Me’: Buffy’s Resistance to Renaming,” Slayage: The Journal of the Joss Whedon Studies Association, vol. 18, no. 1, 2020: pp.1-18. https://www.whedonstudies.tv/uploads/2/6/2/8/26288593/croft_-_slayage_18.1_-_pp._1-18.pdf

Laura Palumbo, Bussmann, J. D., & Kern, B., “The Value of Subject Specialization and the Future of Science Liaison Librarianship,” College and Research Libraries, 2021. https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-6b34-dk85

Comings and Goings:

Naomi Gold has accepted the position of reference and instruction librarian for Dana Library.

Presentations:

Leslin H. Charles and Lily Todorinova, “COVID-19 Propels Information Literacy Instruction Many Years Forward,” Koç University Libraries Virtual Poster Session, June 2020.

Service:

Janet Brennan Croft has joined the board of Slayage: The Journal of the Joss Whedon Studies Association as archivist. Her duties include maintaining an archival record of the publication, creating an annotated index, and advising on its move to a BePress

Triveni Kuchi has been elected incoming vice-chair/chair-elect of the Anthropology and Sociology Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association.

Christie Lutz has been named to the advisory board of the Asbury Park Museum.

Tara Maharjan has been elected as the 2020–2022 New Jersey Caucus representative for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archivist Conference (MARAC).

Articles:

Christie Lutz, “First Time with the First-Years,” Notes from the Field Reflective Practice Series, RBMS Teaching With Primary Sources Collective Blog. https://rbms.info/tpscollective/notes-from-the-field/first-time-with-the-first-years/

Comings and Goings:

Joan Hendershot has retired from her position as library supervisor, invoice/claims coordinator for Collection Services and Resource Sharing effective May 1, 2020.

Tad Hershorn is retiring from his position as public services and reference librarian at the Institute of Jazz Studies effective July 1, 2020.

Yoshiko Ishii has retired from her position in digital scholarship and pedagogies support at Dana Library effective May 1, 2020.

Kim Kaiser has resigned from her position as unit computing specialist effective March 31, 2020.

Stephen Schaefer has accepted the position of library associate II for Paul Robeson Library effective March 24, 2020.

Kate Van Riper has accepted the position of archivist for women’s art collections effective March 23, 2020.

Presentations:

David Emerson and Janet Brennan Croft, “‘Some Rise, Some Fall, Some Climb’: Three Ways of Looking at Robert Hunter’s The Giant Harp,” Southwest Popular and American Culture Association, Grateful Dead Caucus, Albuquerque, NM, February 22, 2020.

Fobazi Ettarh, “Loving Libraries AND Yourself: Deconstructing Vocational Awe,” ARLD Day 2020 Virtual Keynote Address, May 1, 2020. https://www.mnlibraryassociation.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1363280

Fobazi Ettarh, “Putting the Self back in Self-Care: Wellness in the time of COVID-19,” National Network of Libraries of Medicine, April 28, 2020. https://nnlm.gov/class/putting-self-back-self-care-wellness-time-covid-19/24088

Samantha Kannegiser, “The Effect of Augmented Reality on Anxiety and Self-Efficacy: an Exploratory Study,” EBSS Virtual Research Forum, May 2020.

Service:

Janet Brennan Croft has joined the editorial board of Malorn: The Journal of The Tolkien Society.

Bart Everts has been appointed to the Upper Darby, PA Historical Commission.

Zara Wilkinson was elected secretary of the Literatures in English Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Zara Wilkinson served as a judge for the Graduate Paper Competition run by the Graduate School at Rutgers University–Camden.

Zara Wilkinson served on the evaluation committee for the Rutgers University–Camden Writer’s House Faculty Fellows Program.

Yingting Zhang has accepted an appointment on the Medical Library Association’s National Program Committee for 2022.

January/February 2020

Articles:

Ann Murphy, Derek Malenczak, and Mina Ghajar, “Identifying Challenges and Benefits of Online Education for Students with a Psychiatric Disability,” Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability 32(4): 395–409, 2019.

Bob Vietrogoski, review of “Professionalizing Medicine: James Reeves and the Choices That Shaped American Health Care” by John M. Harris Jr., (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2019), in The Watermark (Newsletter of Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences), Winter 2020, 43(1):39-41.

Awards:

Tara Maharjan has been accepted to the 2020 Archives Leadership Institute hosted by Purdue University.

Leslin H. Charles has been accepted to the Fulbright Specialist Roster 2020–2023 Program of the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Books (including chapters):

Adriana Cuervo, “A Gentleman’s Agreement: Donor-Driven Deaccessioning and the Ethics of Collecting,” in Reappraisal and Deaccessioning in Archives and Special Collections, edited by Laura Uglean Jackson (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019), 139-148.

Comings & Goings:

Linda Becker has retired from her position as library assistant II at Dana Library effective February 1, 2020.

Meredith Parker has accepted the position of librarian of practice for New Brunswick Libraries effective January 17.

Luke Sangiamo has accepted the position of coordinator for shipping and receiving in the New Brunswick Libraries effective February 10, 2020.

Presentations:

Adriana Cuervo, “Managing Jazz Archives in the 21st Century: The Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University – Newark,” Documenting Jazz 2020, Birmingham, England, January 17, 2020.

Adriana Cuervo, “Archival Deaccessioning as Collection Management Practice: A Contemporary View of Reappraisal Activities in Music Collections,” International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centers, Krakow, Poland, July 18, 20

Bob Vietrogoski, “Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Martland,” The Red-Headed League, Middlesex NJ, October 2019.

Bob Vietrogoski, “Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Martland,” New York Academy of Medicine, 11th Annual History of Medicine Night, New York NY, February 2020.

Bob Vietrogoski, “The Lives and Work of Samuel and June Orton,” Fairleigh Dickinson University Graduate Learning Disabilities Program, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York NY, July 2019.

Service:

Adriana Cuervo is running for a council seat on the Society of American Archivists in the 2020 election.

November/December 2019

Articles:

Lily Todorinova and Zara Wilkinson, “Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey Response: OER at Rutgers University Libraries,” Against The Grain (Special Online Issue), December 2019. https://against-the-grain.com/2019/12/atg-special-report-responses-to-the-ithaka-sr-2018-faculty-survey-results/

Books (including chapters):

Julie Still and Zara Wilkinson, eds., Buffy to Batgirl: Essays on Female Power, Evolving Femininity and Gender Roles in Science Fiction and Fantasy, (McFarland, 2019).

Comings & Goings:

Dianne Biunno has accepted the position of librarian of practice for Dana Library effective February 3.

Yeewah (Eva) Chan has accepted the position of web developer effective January 2.

Rebecca Diamond has accepted the position of business instruction librarian for New Brunswick Libraries effective January 6.

Timothy Domick has resigned from the position of manager of operations for Dana Library effective January 1.

Sherri Hinrichs-Farber has accepted the position of librarian of practice for New Brunswick Libraries effective January 6.

Michael Joseph has retired from his position as rare books librarian.

Ann Marie Latini has accepted the position of head of Access Services at Paul Robeson Library effective January 13.

Shirley Peck has retired from her position as library assistant at Alexander Library effective January 1. Her last day in the office was November 15, 2019.

In Memoriam:

Former Rutgers librarian Lynn Miller passed away on December 31, 2019. Starting in September 1971, Lynn was a reference librarian at Douglass. She was also the founding curator of the Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series.

Presentations:

Christie Lutz, “Digitize All the Things! Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Digital Status Quo,” Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Cambridge, MD, November 8, 2019.

Service:

Leslin H. Charles has been elected Member at Large, New Jersey Library Association (NJLA) Executive Board, 2019-2021.

September/October 2019

Articles:

Janet Brennan Croft, “What Happens in Alison’s Room: Depictions of Art and Craft in Orphan Black,” Coreopsis: Journal of Myth & Theatre, 7(2): Autumn, 2019. http://www.societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/autumn-2019-issue/what-happens-in-alisons-room

Books (including chapters):

Jannet Brennan Croft and Annika Rottinger, eds., “Something Has Gone Crack”: New Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War (Walking Tree Publishers, 2019).

Comings & Goings:

Emily Cerri has accepted the position of library technician I at Robert Wood Johnson Library effective October 21, 2019.

Kamilah Holtz has accepted the position of library associate II at Dana Library effective September 23, 2019.

Kevin Mulcahy will retire from his position as humanities librarian for New Brunswick Libraries after a career of 36 years.

Presentations:

Leslin H. Charles, C. DeBerry, and T. Strong-Beebe, “Information Literacy Skills: Essential in the World of Fake News,” New Jersey Library Association, October 2019.

Leslin H. Charles and L. J. McFadden, “Changing the Narrative: Approaches to Engaging Previously Incarcerated Students and Hip Hop-Generation,” International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Athens, Greece, August 2019.

Bart Everts, “Builder of Homes: John H. McClacthy and the Growth of Suburban Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania Historical Society, Indiana, Pennsylvania, October 17-19, 2019.

Caryn Radick, “Are you ArchivesAWARE? Teaming up with SAA’s Committee on Public Awareness to Create a Stronger Archives Community,” moderator/speaker, Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, August 4, 2019.

Nina Exner, Kristin Hoffman, Selina Berg, Kristine Brancolini, Marie Kennedy, Zara Wilkinson, and Erin Ackerman, “Research on Research: Studies in Support of Academic Librarians Who Want to Succeed as Researchers,” Library Research Seminar VII, Columbia, SC, October 17, 2019.

July/August 2019

Awards:

Katie Anderson has received a 2019 Literati Award for Outstanding Paper from Emerald Publishing for article “Getting Acquainted with Social Networks and Apps: Combating Fake News on Social Media.”

Books (including chapters):

Zara Wilkinson, “You’re Hired! Now What? Positioning Yourself for Success in a New Job,” in The Future Academic Librarian’s Toolkit: Finding Success on the Job Hunt and in Your First Job, edited by Megan Hodge (Chicago, IL: ACRL, 2019), 99-113.

Comings & Goings:

Heather Andolsen has resigned from her position of library supervisor I at Robeson Library effective September 5, 2019.

Maria Breger has accepted the position of instructional design specialist in Shared User Services effective July 29, 2019.

Joni Cerbone has resigned from her position of acquisitions business manager effective July 19, 2019.

Theresa Macklin has retired from her position as library associate, evening coordinator for Paul Robeson Library effective September 1, 2019.

Bill Puglisi has retired from his position as facilities coordinator for New Brunswick Libraries effective September 1, 2019.

Breanna Ransome has accepted the position of library associate II for Robeson Library effective July 29, 2019.

Edward Robinson has accepted the position of library associate II for Robeson Library effective July 29, 2019.

Rich Sandler has retired from his position as multimedia technical, reformatting & preservation coordinator for Media Services effective August 1, 2019.

Solomon Thomas has accepted the position of library supervisor II for Robeson Library effective August 5, 2019.

Presentations:

Chan-Park, C. and Laura Palumbo, “Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work,” Association of College and Research Libraries licensed work by Goben and Sapp-Nelson, Waco, TX, August 2019.

May/June 2019

Articles:

Joe Clark, Jonathan Sauceda, and Sheridan Stormes, “Faculty Format Preferences in the Performing Arts: A Multi-Institutional Study,” College & Research Libraries 80(4): 450, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.80.4.450

Comings & Goings:

Joe Abraham has resigned from his position as unit computing specialist for the New Brunswick Libraries effective May 27, 2019.

Antonio Barrera has accepted the position of manager of library systems and development efective July 8, 2019.

Rebecca Gardner is retiring from her position as social sciences librarian for the New Brunswick Libraries after a career with the Libraries spanning 32 years.

Stephanie Mikitish has resigned from her position as user engagement and assessment librarian at Dana Library effective June 8, 2019.

Jonathan Torres has accepted the position of business librarian at Dana Library effective June 3, 2019.

Darryl Voorhees has resigned from his position as Imaging Services supervisor effective June 1, 2019.

Presentations:

Bart Everts and Zara Wilkinson, “Tearing Down Walls: Civic Engagement in an Urban Academic Library,” Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, Philadelphia, PA, October 21-23, 2019.

Laura Bowering Mullen, A. Farley, M. Markie, D. Barner, and S. Rouhi, “What’s Your Plan… B?” A Roundtable Discussion on Disruptive Funder Mandates,” Society for Scholarly Publishing, Sand Diego, CA, May 30, 2019.

Laura Bowering Mullen and M. DeSart, “Subject Librarians and Academic Authors: Three Open Access Talking Points,” American Library Association, Washington, DC, June 23, 2019.

Bussman, J, Laura Palumbo, and Kern, B., “Perspectives on Trends and the Future of Academic Science Librarianship in the US,” Special Libraries Association, Cleveland, OH, June 2019.

John Powell, “Out of the Display Case & Into the Community: Fostering Civic Engagement through Library Exhibits,” Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, Philadelphia, PA, October 21-23, 2019.

Lily Todorinova, Matthew Bridgeman, Bonnie Fong, Laura Palumbo, and Zara Wilkinson, “The Evolution of Rutgers University’s Open and Affordable Textbook (OAT) Program,” NJ OER Summit, Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ, June 2019.

Service:

Mina Ghajar has been elected chair of the Consumer and Patient Health Information Section (CAPHIS) of the Medical Library Association.

March/April 2019

Articles:

Katie Anderson, “How do you even know that meme?” Child’s World America, March 29, 2019. http://childsworld.news/03/29/2019/how-do-you-even-know-that-meme/

Gilman, N. and Laura Palumbo, “Introduction to 2018 Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference Presentations on ACRL Frameworks in STEM Fields,” Science & Technology Libraries 38(1): 70–71, 2019. http://doi.org/10.1080/0194262X.2019.1589272

Laura Palumbo, “Personal Data Management Bingo: A Drop-In Activity, 2019. http://doi.org/10.1080/0194262X.2019.1589272

Lily Todorinova and Zara Wilkinson, “Closing the Loop: Students, Academic Libraries, and Textbook Affordability,” Journal of Academic Librarianship 45(3): 268–277, 2019.

Awards:

Matt Bridgeman has been elected recording secretary for the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey.

Mina Ghajar has been elected vice president of the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey.

Pam Hargwood has been elected president of the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey.

Ron Jantz has received the School of Communication and Information Alumni Association’s Annual Distinguished Alumni Award.

Samantha Kannegiser has been accepted to participate in the 2019 Institute for Research Design in Librarianship summer workshop from June 1 through 9, 2019.

Zara Wilkinson‘s article (with Erin Ackerman and Jennifer Hunter) “The Availability and Effectiveness of Research Supports for Early Career Academic Librarians” has been selected by the NJLA Research Committee for the Research Forum at the NJLA Conference

Zara Wilkinson served as a judge for the inaugural Graduate Paper Competition run by the Graduate School at Rutgers University–Camden.

Books (including chapters):

Lily Todorinova and Zara Wilkinson, “Finding New Angles: OER Student Survey Data and the Academic Library Narrative” in Recasting the Narrative: The Proceedings of the ACRL 2019 Conference, April 10–13, 2019, Cleveland, OH, edited by Dawn M. Mueller, 211–215 (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2019).

Comings & Goings:

Debbie Apgar is retiring from her position as library associate for Central Technical Services effective May 1, 2019.

Colin Bitter has resigned from his position as head of monographs cataloging and database management, effective April 12, 2019.

Jeff Carroll has accepted the position of assistant vice president for scholarly communication and collections, effective July 15, 2019.

Chantel Harris has resigned from her position as library associate and student coordinator at Robeson Library effective March 14, 2019.

Sarah Jewell is resigning from her position as information and education librarian at George Smith Library of the Health Sciences effective March 9, 2019.

Angela Lawrence has accepted the position of archivist for the Dana Archives effective March 1, 2019.

Pamela Waid has accepted the posotion of HR manager effective March 25, 2019.

Presentations:

Consuella Askew, Leslin Charles, and Rhonda Marker, “Instruction on Demand: Establishing a New Pedagogical Model for Rutgers University Libraries,” Rutgers Online Learning Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, March 18, 2019.

Leslin Charles, “The Role of an Instructional Design Librarian in the Sustainability of Libraries in the Age of Digital Globalization,” Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, April, 2019.

Leslin Charles, “The Role of an Instructional Design Librarian in the Sustainability of Libraries in the Age of Digital Globalization,” Istanbul International Library Staff Week, Istabul, Turkey, April, 2019.

Leslin Charles, “The Role of an Instructional Design Librarian in the Sustainability of Libraries in the Age of Digital Globalization,” ANKOSLink, Antalonian University Libraries Consortium Association, Antalya, Turkey, April, 2019.

Fobazi Ettarh, “Becoming a Proud ‘Bad Librarian’: Dismantling Vocational Awe in Librarianship,” Association of College and Research Libraries, Cleveland, OH, April 10-13, 2019.

Bart Everts, “The War at Home: A Business School Transformed by the First World War,” Eastern American Studies Association, Harrisburg, PA, March 29-30, 2019.

Christie Lutz, “Race, Class, and Identity in New Jersey’s Urban Jamborees,” International Association for the Study of Popular Music, New Orleans, LA, March 8, 2019.

Christie Lutz, “Greetings from New Jersey’s Country & Western Past: An Exploration of Race, Class, and Identity,” Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, April 19, 2019.

Jim Niessen, “Leopold Ungar’s 1956: Hungarians, Christians, and Jews in Austria,” Hungarian Educators Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 5, 2019.

Laura Palumbo, “Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work,” ACRL Research Data Management Road Show, American Library Association, Washington, DC, June 21, 2019.

Mary Beth Weber and Sandy Roe, “Writing and Publishing Research Results,” Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, March 20, 2019. http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/032019

Zara Wilkinson, Bart Everts, and Gary Marks, Jr., “Civic Engagement and Academic Libraries: Exploring Connections, Communities, and Partnerships,” Association of College and Research Libraries, Cleveland, OH, April 11, 2019.

Zara Wilkinson and Lily Todorinova, “Finding New Angles: OER Student Survey Data and the Academic Library Narrative,” Association of College and Research Libraries, Cleveland, OH, April 11, 2019.

January/February 2019

Articles:

Elizabeth Surles, “Sharing Notes: A Qualitative Analysis of Description of Archival Music Materials,” Music Reference Services Quarterly, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2019.1570739

Books (including chapters):

Krista White, “Visualizing Oral Histories: A Lab Model Using Multimedia DH to Incorporate ACRL Framework Standards into Liberal Arts Education” in The Digital Humanities: Implications for Librarians, Libraries, and Librarianship (New York: Taylor and Francis, 2019).

Comings & Goings:

Nancy Blankenhorn retired from her position as library specialist at Smith Library on January 31, 2019.

Fengzhi Fan, application manager/system administrator for Integrated Information Systems, is retiring on May 1, 2019. His last day in the office is March 1.

Roberta Bronson Fitzpatrick retired from her position as associate director of Smith Library on January 31, 2019.

Joann Parrone accepted the position of senior executive assistant effective February 2019.

Jacquelyn Tasker is resigning from her position as library associate at the Art Library effective January 30, 2019.

Linda Zuckerman is retiring from her position as library associate in the Monographs Cataloging and Database Management Section of Central Technical Services effective March 1, 2019.

In Memoriam:

Linda Langschied, former digital projects librarian in Shared User Services, passed away peacefully in her sleep after a short but severe illness on February 1, 2019. A celebration of her life was held on February 10 at Pines Manor in Edison. If you wish to honor Linda’s memory with a donation, the family has selected the St. Peter’s Foundation: https://www.saintpetershcs.com/donate

Presentations:

Gloria Bachmann, Kayo Denda, and Mark Schuster, “Bridging Humanities and Medicine: A Multidisciplinary Pathway to Optimizing Compassion, Diversity, and Inclusion for Transgender Individuals,” Scholarship, Research, and Best Practices in Diversity and Inclusion: Exploring Current Findings and Pursuing New Pathways Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, April 4, 2019.

Samantha Kannegiser, “How May I Teach You?: Rethinking Virtual Reference with the Framework,” 25th Annual Reference Research Forum, American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., June 25, 2019.

Laura B. Mullen and J. Gelfand, “Scholarly Publishing: Avoiding Pitfalls and Showing Impact,” American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., February 15, 2019.

Adam Berkowitz, Jeannie Chen, Treshani Perera, Brad San Martin, and Elizabeth Surles, “Supporting Diversity in Music Archives through Career Development Opportunities: The Institute of Jazz Studies Archives Fellowship Program,” Music Library Association, St. Louis, MO, February 22, 2019.

Krista White, “Further, Higher, Faster: Women as Action Heroes in Hollywood,” Rutgers Cinema, Piscataway, NJ, March 12, 2019.

Krista White, “Examining the Mapathon Phenomenon from a Critical, Humanistic Perspective,” Global Health Nursing Conference, Newark, NJ, March 21, 2019.

Service:

Elizabeth Surles has been appointed to the editorial board for Jazz Education in Research and Practice.

November/December 2018

Articles:

Elizabeth Surles, “Sound Practice: Exploring DACS Compliance in Archival Description of Music Recordings,” IASA Journal 49: 43-59, 2018.

Katie Elson Anderson, “Getting Acquainted with Social Networks and Apps: Combating Fake News on Social Media,” Library Hi Tech News 35(3): 1-6, 2018. https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/LHTN-02-2018-0010

Awards:

Kayo Denda, head of the Margery Somers Foster Center and librarian for women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, has been selected for an appointment as a Smithsonian Fellow in Museum Practice at the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access from May through September 2019.

Books (including chapters):

Leslin H. Charles, “In Service to Rutgers University Libraries’ Instruction Program: LIS Students Gain Instruction Experience through a Mutually Beneficial Collaboration” in Library Service and Learning: Empowering Students, Inspiring Social Responsibility and Building Community Connections, edited by T. McDevitt and C. Finegan (Chicago: ACRL, 2018).

Comings and goings:

Douglas Allen has accepted the posotion of operations manager for New Brunswick Libraries effective November 14.

Heather Andolsen has accepted the position of library supervisor I at Robeson Library effective December 17, 2018.

Cherron Bradshaw has resigned from his position as library technician for Smith Library effective December 21, 2018.

Joni Cerbone accepted the position of business manager effective November 12, 2018.

Gargi Chaterjee has accepted a position as library assistant III with Special Collections and University Archives effective January 2, 2019.

Adriana Cuervo has been appointed the inaugural head of Archival Collections and Services at Rutgers–Newark effective January 2, 2019.

Eric Fizur has resigned from his position of circulation supervisor for Robeson Library effective December 1, 2018.

Alicia Haggenmiller has resigned from her position as library technician for Smith Library effective December 21, 2018.

Peter Konin has accepted a position with GS1 in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. His last day was November 9.

John Mulez has resigned from his position as collections management assistant for Special Collections and University Archives effective January 3, 2019.

Vincent Pelote has accepted the position of senior archivist and audio preservation strategist for the Institute of Jazz Studies effective January 2, 2019.

Ken Pickering is retiring from his position as utility worker for the Shipping and Receiving Department effective March 1, 2019. His last day in the office will be January 19, 2019.

Lisa Vargas-Long has resigned from her position as library assistant at Paul Robeson Library effective December 7, 2018.

Krista White, formerly digital humanities librarian, has accepted the position of digital scholarship and pedagogies librarian effective November 12, 2018.

Presentations:

Katie Elson Anderson, “Hitchhiking the Internet with LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner,” Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association Internet and Culture Panel, Baltimore, MD, November 10, 2018.

Leslin H. Charles, “Using Metacognition to Address the ‘Illusion of Knowing’ among First Year Students in How to Determine Credible Sources of Information Received via Social Media,” Virtual Academic Library Environment of New Jersey Annual Users’ Conference, Piscataway, NJ, January 2019.

Leslin H. Charles, “Metacognition as a Tool to Address the ‘Illusion of Knowing’ among First Year Students in How to Determine Credible Sources of Information Received via Social Media,” 8th International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, Ankara, Turkey, November 2018.

Berg, B. Boyer, Leslin H. Charles, L. Manganello, and J. Valenza, “Bridging the Transition Together,” New Jersey Association of School Librarians Annual Fall Conference, Long Branch, NJ, December 2018.

Elizabeth Surles, “Garden State Swing: Documenting New Jersey Jazz at IJS,” New Jersey History Forum, November 2, 2018.

Elizabeth Surles, “Notes on Notes: Introducing Archival Descriptions of Notated Music, the Music Library Association’s New DACS Supplement,” Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, August 16, 2018.

Bob Vietrogoski, “Embarkation, Debarkation, Rehabilitation, General, and Base: New Jersey’s World War I Military Hospitals,” Medical History Society of New Jersey, Princeton, NJ, October 2018.

Bob Vietrogoski, “Sources in New Jersey Medical History: Special Collections, Annual Reports, and Beautiful Sewer Maps,” Documents Association of New Jersey, Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, NJ, October 2018.

Bob Vietrogoski, “New Jersey Medicine as Popular Culture,” panel chair, 2018 New Jersey History Forum, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, November 2018.

Yingting Zhang, Elizabeth Sosnowska, and Judith Cohn, “Librarians’ Perspectives on Scholarly Publishing,” RBHS Scholarly Publishing Symposium, Newark and New Brunswick, NJ, March 2018.

Service:

Elizabeth Sosnowska is currently serving as president of the Health and Sciences Library Association of New Jersey (2018–2019).

Elizabeth Sosnowska has been appointed to the Executive Board of LibraryLinkNJ as a special libraries representative for a three-year term beginning in December 2018.

September/October 2018

Articles:

Michael Joseph, “‘Like Snow in A Dark Nght’: Exile and Displacement in the Poetics of Robert Graves,” Book 2.0, 8(1-2): 43-60, September 2018.

Megan Lotts, “Outreach, Engagement, and Highlighting the Rutgers University Libraries Collections,” Art Libraries Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference Proceedings, October 2018.

Jane Otto and Laura Bowering Mullen, “The Rutgers Open Access Policy Goes into Effect: Faculty Reaction and Implementation Lessons Learned,” Library Management (Emerald): 2018. https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3D50QDM

Erin Ackerman, Jennifer Hunter, and Zara Wilkinson, “The Availability and Effectiveness of Research Supports for Early Career Academic Librarians,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 44(5): 553-568, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2018.06.001

Awards:

Judy Cohn has been awarded the NJEdge/VALE Distinguished Service Award for Libraries.

Books (including chapters):

William T. Fitzgerald and Zara T. Wilkinson, “Pressing the Reset Button on (Information) Literacy in FYW: Opportunities for Library and Writing Program Collaboration in Research-Based Composition” in Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies: Volume 1, First-Year Composition Courses, edited by Grace Veach (West Lafayett, IN: Purdue University Press, 2018), pp. 71-84.

Presentations:

Colin Bitter and Mary Beth Weber, “Syncing the Data: OCLC Reclamation Before Alma,” Ex Libris Northeast User Group Conference, SUNY, Albany, NY, October 12, 2018.

Leslin Charles, “Using Metacognition to Address the ‘Illusion of Knowing’ among First Year Students in How to Determine Credible Sources of Information Received via Social Media,” European Conference on Information Literacy, Oulu, Finland, September 2018.

Janet Brennan Croft and Phillip Fitzsimmons, “Switching A Long-Established Print Journal to An Online Platform for Production and Archiving,” presenter, Digital Commons Heartland User Group conference, Hays, KS, October 15, 2018.

Megan Lotts, “Outreach, Engagement, and Highlighting the Rutgers University Libraries Collections,” Art Libraries Society of Australia and New Zealand, Canberra, Australia, October 4–5, 2018.

James P. Niessen, “Religion and Migration in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic,” chair, German Studies Association conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 29, 2018.

James P. Niessen, “The Role of the Christian Churches of German Europe in the Hungarian Refugee Crisis of 1956-57,” presenter, German Studies Association conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 29, 2018.

Berman, H., Gabanyi, M., Laura Palumbo, and Papaioannou, C., “Data Management Made Easy: Introducing ezDMP,” workshop, Rutgers University Library of Science and Medicine, New Brunswick, NJ, October 2018.

Goben, A. and Laura Palumbo, “Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work,” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, October 2018.

Service:

Tara Maharjan has been accepted into the Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs’ Cultivating Inclusive & Transformational Environments (CITE) Learning Community.

Comings & Goings:

Fobazi Ettarh will join Dana Library as undergraduate success librarian effective November 5, 2018.

Samantha Kannegiser joined Robeson Library as student success librarian effective October 15, 2018.

Mary Ann Koruth has accepted a position at the Center for Migration and the Global City at Rutgers–Newark, where she will be working on a variety of multimedia initiatives. Her last day in the office was Friday, October 26.

Yuhwei Ling is moving to a new position at R-Comm, the communications and marketing unit for Rutgers–New Brunswick and RBHS. His last day in the office was Tuesday, October 2.

Nancy Martin is retiring from her postion as administrative assistant for Special Collections and University archives effective January 1, 2019. Her last day in the office was October 17.

Emily Mervis, library associate II at the Library of Science and Medicine, has resigned from her position effective October 2, 2018.

Jordan Nielsen has resigned from his position as business and entrepreneurship librarian effective October 19, 2018. His last day in the office will be September 14.

Geoffrey Wood has accepted the position of metadata librarian effective November 1, 2018.

Katrina Zwaaf has accepted a position as cataloging and metadata librarian with the Somerset County Library System’s Bridgewater Library. Her last day in the office was October 26.

July/August 2018

Articles:

Megan Lotts and Tara Maharjan, “Outreach, Engagement, Learning, and Fun in 60 Seconds: Button Making at the Rutgers University Libraries,” College and Research Libraries News 79(7): 364–379, 2018.https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/17056/18800#

Julie Still, “Victorian-Era Philly Bicycle Routes Now Available Online,” Hidden City Philadelphia, July 11, 2018.

Victorian-era Philly Bicycle Routes Now Available Online

T.F. Babor and Judit H. Ward, “Caveat Emptor: Predatory Publishers, Rogue Journals, and the Corruption of Addiction Science,” Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (79)4: 509-513, 2018. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30079864

Judit H. Ward, “Climate Change: History in the Making,” Substance Abuse Library and Information Studies (4): 1-4.

Awards:

Chantel Harris has been inducted as an honorary member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

The New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project, led by project director Caryn Radick, has received an additional grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the amount of $219,609.

Krista White has been awarded a Rutgers–Newark Chancellor’s Seed Grant of $33,130 to develop the Digital Scholarship as Modular Pedagogy project.

Yingting Zhang has won a Best JMLA Research Paper award from the Journal of the Medical Library Association for her article “Culturally Competent Library Services and Related Factors Among Health Sciences Librarians: An Explanatory Study.”

Special Collections and Univerisity Archives has been awarded a grant in the amount of $95,230 from the New Jersey Historical Commission retroactive to July 1, 2018 and extending to June 30, 2019.  It was the second highest grant awarded in the state.

Presentations:

Janet Brennan Croft, “Auntie, What Ails Thee?: The Parzival Question in Orphan Black,” 49th annual Mythopoeic Society conference, Atlanta, GA, July 20-23, 2018.

Megan Lotts, “The Art Library, Inside and Outside: Outreach & Engagement in Academic Art Libraries,” Art Libraries Society of UK & Ireland annual conference, London, England, July 26-27, 2018.

I. Bruno, C. Castle, and Laura Palumbo, “Chemistry Librarians and Disciplinary Data Repositories Working in Partnership,” American Chemical Society National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 2018.

Service:

Christie Lutz has been appointed by the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders to a two-year term on the Middlesex County Arts & History Committee beginning September 2018.

Congratulations to our colleagues for their new three-year leadership appointments in the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance: Christie Lutz (secretary), Tara Maharjan (membership chair), and Bob Vietrogoski (chair).

Tara Maharjan has been accepted into the inaugural class of the South Asian American Digital Archives Archivists’ Collective. The group works to further the documentation and preservation of South Asian American history. https://www.saada.org/archivists-collective

Comings & Goings:

Vibiana Cvetkovic will retire from her position as instruction/reference librarian at the Paul Robeson Library effective September 1, 2018.

Timothy Domick has accepted the inaugural position of manager of operations for Dana Library effective September 4.

Janie Fultz will retire from her position as senior executive assistant effective November 1, 2018. Her last day in the office was August 24.

Joann Polgar will retire from her position as library technician at the Robert Wood Johnson Library effective September 1, 2018. Her last day in the office was August 31.

Library associate Irina Radeva resigned from her position effective August 1, 2018 and has accepted a position as reference and government documents librarian with Drew University.

Wen-Hua Ren will retire from her position as documents/business reference librarian at the Dana Library effective October 1, 2018. Her last day in the office will be September 28.

Juliana Ritter will retire effective September 1, 2018. Her last day in the office was August 31.

La-Tira Shaw has joined Dana Library as administrative assistant effective July 16, 2018.

Philip Wilson has been promoted to library specialist at the Robert Wood Johnson Library effective August 16.

Elizabeth York will join the Libraries as electronic resources librarian effective September 4, 2018.

June 2018

Awards:

The New Brunswick Music Scene Archive has been awarded the 2018 Innovative Archives Award from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference’s New Jersey Caucus. Congratulations to our colleagues Christie Lutz and Tara Maharjan, who will be presented with the award at Monmouth County Archives and History Day on October 13.

Mary Beth Weber, Colin Bitter, Roman Frackowski, Kati Ritter, and Catherine Sauceda are the Rutgers representatives for the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Cooperative Cataloging Partnership, which was awarded the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services’ Outstanding Collaboration Citation for 2018. The initiative was recognized at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans last month.

Books (including chapters):

Kayo Denda, “Brazil” in Women’s Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, edited by Susan M. Shaw et al. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018), pp. 509–522.

Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, and Fernanda Perrone, The Douglass Century: Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018).

Grants:

Kayo Denda was principal investigator for a $1000 Rutgers Global event cosponsorship grant for “The States of Incarceration.”

Kayo Denda was a collaborator on the Transgender Issues event series, which received a $750 Literature and Medicine grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

Presentations:

Laura Costello, “Leading with Data: Using Stats from across the Library to Inspire, Inform, and Motivate Your Team,” American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 23, 2018.

Kayo Denda, “Literature and Medicine Series: Transgender Issues,” workshop leader, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Gender Institute, New Brunswick, NJ, February 19, 2018.

Kayo Denda, Douglass Century book launch, presenter, Douglass Residential College, New Brunswick, NJ, April 3, 2018.

Bonnie Fong, “A Collaborative Initiative for Graduate Student Success,” American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 23, 2018.

Bonnie Fong, “Boot Camps for Graduate Student Success,” American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 23, 2018.

Bonnie Fong, Rachel Hamelers, and Sara Gonzalez, “How We can Increase Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in a Science Librarians Organization?”, American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 24, 2018.

Nancy Kranich, “Libraries Foster Community Engagement,” American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 24, 2018.

Nancy Kranich, “Transforming Community Relationships through Dialogue,” American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 23, 2018.

Megan Lotts and Tara Maharjan, “Engagement, Learning, Outreach, and Fun in 60 Seconds: Button Making at the Rutgers University Libraries,” American Library Association Annual Conference, June 21–26, 2018.

Christie Lutz, “Engaging the Offbeat: A Case Study in Creating a Local Music Archive as a Cultural Space,” Association of College and Research Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 21, 2018.

Jordan Nielsen, “Mapping the Undergraduate Business School Curriculum: A Targeted Approach to Library Outreach and Instruction,” American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 24, 2018.

Laura Palumbo, N. Gilman, D. Beck, K. Bohemier, J. Cruickshank, N. Curtis, S. Epstein, I. Holden, and K.D. Ruth, “Putting a Frame around STEM Insturction: Lightning Talks on Successful Implementations of the ACRL Framework in STEM Information Literacy Instruction,” organizer and moderator, Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 2018.

Erin Ackerman, Jennifer Hunter, and Zara Wilkinson, “How New Librarians Learn to Conduct Scholarly Research,” American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 21, 2018.

Comings & Goings:

Adriana Cuervo, associate director of the Institute of Jazz Studies, has been promoted to Librarian II.

Tom Glynn, British and American history/political science librarian at New Brunswick Libraries, has been promoted to Librarian I.

Liza Kostic will be retiring effective August 1, 2018. Liza has served as a library assistant II at the Annex for the past 10 years. Prior to that, she worked for eight years as an information analyst for Pfizer Inc. in Morris Plains, NJ. Within the next year, she will be enjoying life with her husband Andy in their new home in Kalaheo, Hawaii.

Megan Lotts, art librarian at New Brunswick Libraries, has been promoted to Librarian II, effective, July 1.

Emily Mervis joined New Brunswick Libraries as library associate II at the Library of Science and Medicine in August 2017.

Jane Otto will retire from Central Technical Services effective July 1, 2018.

Prior to coming to Rutgers, Jane’s first professional position was at Library of Congress (LC) in the Optical Disk Pilot Program as a cataloger. Jane then spent the next 17 years of her career as a cataloger in UCLA’s prestigious Film and Television Archive, an internationally renowned visual arts organization that handles the preservation, study and appreciation of film and television.

In 2008, Jane joined the staff of Central Technical Services as Media and Music Metadata Librarian, and was awarded tenure in 2014. Jane’s notable accomplishments in this role include developing policies and procedures for new and emerging workflows. Jane was also very active with creating metadata for digital collections in RUcore.

One of Jane’s most significant achievements, which has had an impact universitywide, resulted from her work as chair of the Rutgers Senate’s Research and Graduate & Professional Education Committee  (RGPEC) Open Access Subcommittee. Under Jane’s leadership, the Senate overwhelmingly passed an Open Access Policy Resolution in October 2012.

Jane’s title and work assignment changed in 2015 to Scholarly Open Access Repository Librarian to enable her to provide leadership and management for RUcore’s scholarship portal, SOAR (Scholarly Open Access at Rutgers). As a leader of the University Senate’s University-wide ORCID initiative, Jane was an integral member of the Rutgers University ORCID Implementation Working Group as well as the Rutgers University Libraries ORCID Outreach Working Group.

Please join us in congratulating Jane, who will now have more time to devote to some of her other passions, including her artwork, quilting, and riding her horse, Bo.

Fernanda Perrone, archivist and head of the exhibitions program at Special Collections and University Archives, New Brunswick Libraries, has been promoted to Librarian I, effective, July 1.

Elena Schneider joined New Brunswick Libraries as coordinator of shipping and receiving in August 2017.

Bob Warwick will retire on August 1, 2018, after nearly 40 years of service to the Libraries. His last day in the office was June 6.

Bob began his career at the Libraries in 1975 as a voucher employee in the Cataloging Department while a student at Rutgers. In 1978, Bob was hired into his first full-time position as a library assistant in Serials and Government Documents at the Kilmer Library. He returned to the Cataloging Department in 1979 as a supervisor and became head of the Rapid Bibliographic Transfer Department (RBT), where he led a team of supervisors and staff devoted to the task of quickly cataloging new books with Library of Congress records. In 1998, Bob transferred into what was then known as “Systems” and assumed many new roles very well suited to his years of experience in cataloging and his vast knowledge of library automation, bibliographic record formats, and data migration. His expertise with Director’s Station made him the go-to person for very complicated statistical questions posed by our librarians. Bob’s been a critical part of the Symphony Support Team and is irreplaceable.

A retirement party is being planned for later this summer with details forthcoming. Please join us in congratulating Bob and wishing him well in his new chapter!

Ann Watkins will be retiring at the end of June.

Krista White, digital humanities librarian at John Cotton Dana Library, has been promoted to Librarian II.

Sonia Yaco has accepted the position of associate director of Special Collections and University Archives effective August 13, 2018.

Zara Wilkinson, reference/instruction librarian at Paul Robeson Library, has been promoted to Librarian II.

In Memoriam:

Anne Butman who had worked in IIS for two decades before becoming a project manager in OIT passed away in her sleep on June 27. No more information is currently available. She is survived by her husband Jimmy and daughter Emily.

Carolyn Foote, a member of the Dana Library staff for over 30 years, passed away in June. Carolyn’s first job at Dana Library was as a student working in the circulation department and she became a full-time employee less than a year later. As a member of the URA-AFT, Local 1766, she was also engaged in professional activities outside the library. Joining as a charter member in 2007, she went on to serve four terms on the executive board and as chair of the URA’s Civil Rights Committee. In 2013, Carolyn became lead steward for the Newark campus.  Her most recent roles included being a lead steward and executive board member for the 2016–2018 term. Remaining at the heart of her service was a commitment to ensuring that union members knew their rights about unemployment benefits. Carolyn will be greatly missed by her colleagues and friends at Dana Library. Our sympathies go out to her family for their sudden loss and we will keep them in our thoughts and prayers.

May 2018

Articles:

Jonathan Sauceda, “Arranging ‘Babel’: Special Collections, Undergraduate Research, and Librarian Engagement,” portal: Libraries and the Academy 18(2): 391-408, 2018. http://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2018.0021

Yingting Zhang and Karen Parry, “Health Sciences and Public Librarians Partnering to Create a Culture of Health,” Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet (22)2: 102–111, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/15398285.2018.1434348

Awards:

Jim Niessen received a Rutgers Global Travel Grant in support of research in Europe this June and July.

Books (including chapters):

Michael Joseph, “The Winding Road to Illo Tempore: Fairy Tale Poems,” Routledge Companion to Fairy-Tale Cultures and Media, edited by Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, and Naomi Hamer (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 580–590.

Comings & Goings:

Glenn Sandberg, supervisor of Interlibrary Loan Services, will retire on August 1, 2018, after 30 years of service to the university. Glenn began his career at Rutgers University Libraries in 1988 as supervisor of the Media Department in the Laurie Music Library and served as supervisor of Access Services at the Library of Science and Medicine from 1999 until he moved into his present position in 2004. He helped bolster Rutgers’ reputation in the E-ZBorrow community, contributed to the adoption of UBorrow, and ensured the successful implementation of major improvements to ILL services such as the removal of copyright fees for article requests. Glenn’s last day in the office will be June 1. Please join us in congratulating him and wishing him well in his next chapter!

In Memoriam:

David Batista, reference librarian emeritus at Rutgers Law School in Camden, passed away on Wednesday, May 30.

Presentations:

Annamarie Klose Hrubes and Isaiah Beard, “Digitization on a Dime,” New Jersey Library Association, Atlantic City, NJ, June 1, 2018.

Leslin Charles and L. Dexheimer, “Two Birds, One Stone: How Institutional Partnerships Can Facilitate Learning in Both Information Literacy and Analytical Research Writing,” New Jersey Writing Alliance Conference, Piscataway, NJ, May 2018.

Bart Everts, “Incarcerated Bodies, Incarcerated Minds: Censorship in Prison Libraries,” LACUNY Institute, New York, NY, May 11, 2018.

Christie Lutz and Frank Bridges, “Meeting in the Middle of a Scene: The Collaborative Creation of the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive,” Association for Recorded Sound Collections, Baltimore, MD, May 10, 2018.

JJ Pionke, Elizabeth Sosnowska, and Heidi Schroeder, “Creating a Consortium Taskforce to Assess E-Resource Accessibility,” Medical Library Association, Atlanta, GA, May 19-23, 2018.

Yingting Zhang, “Provision of Research Assessment Services in Academic Health Sciences Libraries,” Medical Library Association, Atlanta, GA, May 19-23, 2018.

April 2018

Articles:

Laura Palumbo, “Instruction Is Contextual: An Examination of McNair Program Curricula for STEM Scholars and Recommendations Based on the Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education,” Science & Technology Libraries, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/0194262X.2018.1456089

Elizabeth Surles, “Records at Play: The Institute of Jazz Studies @ 50,” Performance! (Winter 2018): 12. https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Performance%20Newsletter%202018_1.pdf

Elizabeth Surles, “Message from the Co-Chairs,” Performance! (Winter 2018): 2. https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Performance%20Newsletter%202018_1.pdf

Elizabeth Surles, book review of Describing Music Materials: A Manual for Resource Description of Printed and Recorded Music and Music Videos by Richard P. Smiraglia and Jihee Beak, Journal of Archival Organization, 2018. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15332748.2018.1443566

Brenda Marshall, Betty Kollia, Victoria Wagner, and David Yablonsky, “Identifying Depression in Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Recommendations for Professional Practice,” Journal Of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental Health Services 56(4): 23-27. https://doi.org/10.3928/02793695-20171128-02

Congratulations!

Irina Radeva earned her master of information degree from the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers–New Brunswick.

Presentations:

Bart Everts and Zara Wilkinson, “From the Stacks to the Community: Library Faculty Supporting Campus Civic Engagement Programs,” NJLA CUS Civic Engagement and Academic Libraries Workshop, Branchburg, NJ, April 27, 2018.

Laura Palumbo and Sara Wright, “Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work,” Association of College and Research Libraries licensed work by Goben and Sapp-Nelson, presented at Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, GA, March 2018.

Service

Christie Lutz was elected secretary of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance.

Tara Maharjan was elected membership chair of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance.

Bob Vietrogoski was elected chair of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance.

Yingting Zhang was elected to the Medical Library Association Nominating Committee for 2018-2019.

March 2018

Articles:

Jonathan Sauceda and Joe Clark, “Music Library Association Personnel Characteristics, 2016,” Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association (2018): 359-371.

Presentations:

Jill Nathanson and Mei Ling Lo, “If It Is on the Internet, It Must Be True: How to Develop Information Literate Students in the Era of Fake News,” Rutgers Online Learning Conference, Somerset, NJ, March 12, 2018.

Lily Todorinova and Zara Wilkinson, “Open and Affordable Textbooks at Rutgers University,” Rutgers Online Learning Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, March 12, 2018.

Helene van Rossum and Wendy E. Harris, “‘That Class of People Called Low Dutch,’ African Enslavement among the Dutch Reformed Churches of Ulster County and New Jersey’s Raritan Valley,” Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY, April 7, 2018.

Tracie Paulson and Zara Wilkinson, “Finding Open Educational Resources (OER),” Rutgers University–Camden Faculty eLearning Conference, Camden, NJ, March 1, 2018.

Ryan Womack, “Short Course on Applied Multivariate Statistical Methods with R” [Workshop], Mongolian University of Life Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, February 26–March 2 2018.

February 2018

Comings & Goings:

Effective March 12, web designer Mary Ann Koruth will move from IIS to the communications department. In this role, she will continue to provide web and digital graphic design support and to work closely with colleagues on the web team and the web improvement team.

Jeanne Boyle, associate university librarian for planning and organizational research, will retire on April 1, 2018.

Janet Giorgio, administrative assistant at Jon Cotton Dana Library will retire on May 1, 2018. Her last day in the office is March 9.

Dianne Hamlette, section chief for document delivery at Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences, is retiring May 1, 2018. Her last day in the office will be April 19.

Articles:

Janet Brennan Croft, “Copyright for Scholars: Osmosis Doesn’t Do the Trick Anymore,” Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy 4(1), 2017, pp. 72-75.

Judit Hajnal Ward, “Liars’ club: predatory journals, publishers, and conferences [In Hungarian],” Orvosi Könyvtárak (Medical Libraries) (1), 14-21, 2018.

Krista White and Caryn Radick, “Legacies and Lifecycles: Digitizing Oral Histories at Rutgers University Libraries,” Digital Library Perspectives 33 (3) (2017), 203-220.

Books (including chapters):

Sarah Jewell, “Providing Meaningful Information: Part D – Current Awareness,” A Practical Guide for Informationists, edited by Antonio P. DeRosa, (Elsevier, 2018).

Presentations:

Flora Boros and Caryn Radick, “Curating the Past: Creating Rutgers’ ‘Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken!’” New Jersey and the Great War, New Jersey Historical Commission Annual Conference, Rowan College at Burlington County, November 3, 2017.

Janet Brennan Croft, “Crafters and Craft Culture,” chair, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association,  Albuquerque, NM, February 7-10, 2018.

Janet Brennan Croft, “Libraries, Museums, Archives, and Digital Humanities,” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association,  Albuquerque, NM, February 7-10, 2018. (three panels on behalf of her late colleague David Oberhelman of Oklahoma State University)

Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic, “At Risk Children of Color in Film,” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 7, 2018.

Francesca Giannetti, “Introduction to Data Manipulation and Visualization in R,” workshop, Music Library Association Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, January 2018.

Sarah Jewell and Margaret Foster, “Systematic Review Webinar Series,” Medical Library Association, March – April 2018.

Megan Lotts, “Strategic Library Exhibitions: Engagement, Outreach, and Innovation,” Art Libraries Society of North America, New York, New York, March 2018.

Megan Lotts, “Strategic Library Exhibitions: Engagement, Outreach, and Innovation,” Art Libraries Society of North America, New York, NY, February 2018.

Laura Palumbo, Jeffra Bussmann, and Barbara Kern, “Shifting Roles within Science Librarianship,” American Libraries Association Midwinter Conference, Denver, CO, February 10, 2018.

Caryn Radick, “Progress and Process of the New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project,” Celebration of New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project, Alexander Library, Rutgers-New Brunswick, January 10, 2018.

Awards:

Leslin H. Charles received a Faculty Award for ‘Outstanding Generosity and Commitment to the Education of Our Students’ from the office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Francesca Giannetti will be a fellow in the Classification Seminar held at the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, 2018-19.

Julie Still was honored with a Women of Excellence award during Women’s History Month at Rutgers University-Camden.

Zara Wilkinson was honored with a Women of Excellence award during Women’s History Month at Rutgers University-Camden.

Leadership:

Francesca Giannetti is a member of the Research Database Taskforce of the Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates, 2018- .

Francesca Giannetti is coordinator of the Music Library Association Digital Humanities Interest Group, 2018-2022.

Megan Lotts is chair of the Mentee/Mentor Program for Art Libraries Society of North America.

Laura Bowering Mullen was appointed to the 2018 Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, International Open Access Week Advisory Committee to represent the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions.

Caryn Radick has been appointed vice-chair/chair-elect of the Society of American Archivists’ Committee on Public Awareness.

January 2018

Comings & Goings:

Matthew Bridgeman joined the Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences as information and education librarian on January 16, 2018.

Devin Gingery, a library associate II working at the Douglass Library and Chang Library, resigned from her library position, effective Friday, January 12, 2018.

Ayesha Salim joined Dana Library as a business specialist.

Minglu Wang, data services librarian at John Cotton Dana Library, is resigning. Her last day will be February 28, 2018.

Articles:

Ron Jantz, “Creating the Innovative Library Culture: Escaping the Iron Cage Through Management Innovation,” New Review of Academic Librarianship 23(4), 323-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2017.1388055.

S Maiocco, E. Shelley, S. Salmond, Sarah T. Jewell, B. Caldwell, and M. Lieggi, “Experiences of stigma among family members of persons living with schizophrenia: a systematic review protocol,” JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 2017.

Nancy Kranich, “American Library Association Offers Free Webinars on Convening and Moderating,” The Moderators Circle: An Occasional Update Highlighting News from the Network of the National Issues Forums, Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation, Fall 2018. http://conta.cc/2z1T6Rt

Jim Niessen, Review of “Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain,” Ed. Piotr H. Kosicki, Church History 86(3), September 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640717002001

Abhinav R Changa, Robert A. Vietrogoski, and Peter W Carmel, “Dr Harrison Martland and the history of punch drunk syndrome,” Brain 141(1), 318–321. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awx349

Byrd-Bredbenner C, Wu F, Spaccarotella K, Quick V, Martin-Biggers J, Yingting Zhang, “Systematic Review of Control Groups in Nutrition Education Intervention Research,” International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 14(1):91, 2017. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=28693581

Mi M, Yingting Zhang, “Culturally Competent Library Services and Related Factors among Health Sciences Librarians: An Exploratory Study,” Journal of the Medical Library Association 105(2):132-138, 2017. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5370603/

Books (including chapters):

Margaret J. Foster and Sarah T. Jewell, editors, Assembling the Pieces of a Systematic Review: A Guide for Librarians (New York: Rowman & Littlefied, 2017).

Presentations:

Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic, “Cowgirls and the Wild West in the Golden Age of Television,” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, American West: Film and Literature: Women in the West Panel, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 16, 2017.

Margaret Rush Dreker, Yingting Zhang, and Judy Cohn, “Collaborative Health Literacy Efforts Aiming to Make Diverse New Jerseyans Healthier,” New Jersey Statewide Network for Cultural Competence, East Windsor, NJ.

Tom Frusciano, John Coakley, and Helene Van Rossum, “Land, Faith, and Slaves: The Shared Heritage of the Hardenbergh Family, Rutgers University, and the Dutch Reformed Church,” Old Dutch Parsonage, Somerville, NJ, June 2017.

Christine A. Lutz, “The New Brunswick Music Scene Archive,” Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Newark, NJ, April 22, 2017.

Bette Epstein and Christine A. Lutz, “Library and Web Research,” Rutgers’ Writing Conference, June 4, 2017.

Christine A. Lutz and Tara Maharjan, “Documenting Subcultures: Acquiring New Collections from Nontraditional Partners,” Bridging the Spectrum: A Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information Science, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, February 3, 2017.

Wen-Hua Ren, Ka-Neng Au, Bonnie Fong, and Ann Watkins, “Celebration of 50 years of Being a Depository Library,” Depository Library Council Meeting and Federal Depository Library Conference, Arlington, VA, October 17, 2017.

Victoria Wagner, “Navigating the Copyright Maze,” New Jersey Association of School Librarians Annual Conference, Long Branch, NJ, November 2017.

Victoria Wagner, “Navigating the Copyright Maze,” New Jersey Educational Computing Cooperative Educational Technology Conference, Montclair, NJ, January 9, 2018.

Connie Wu, “Patent Strategic Management and Technology Transfer,” Nanjing Innovation Centre for Environment Protection Industry, Nanjing, China, November 15, 2017.

Connie Wu, “IP Management in American Universities,” invited lecture for Chinese University professors who participated in Professor Teaching Training program at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, February 17, 2017.

Yingting Zhang and Parry K, “Academic Health Sciences Library Partners with Local Public Library to Improve Community Health,” Medical Library Association, Seattle, WA, May 30, 2017.

Yingting Zhang, “How Data Are Shared by Researchers: Analysis of Data Sharing Methods in PLOS Articles by RBHS Researchers,” Medical Library Association, Seattle, WA, May 28, 2017.

Yingting Zhang, Mi M, Wu L, and Wu W, “Provision of Research Support Services: A New Role for Health Sciences Librarians,” Taiwan Medical Library Association 2017 International Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, March 30, 2017.

Yingting Zhang, “How Faculty Share Their Research Data?” 2018 VALE, Piscataway, NJ, January 5, 2018.

Yingting Zhang, “Searching for EBM Information, Research Data Management, and Citation Management,” JiaXing Medical College, JiaXing University, ZheJiang Province, China, April 7, 2017.

Awards:

Connie Wu was awarded a $2,000 research grant from the Rutgers University China Office for assisting the office with Chinese University Administrator Training programs at Rutgers.

Yingting Zhang received a Data Management Training Scholarship of $1000.00 from Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries for attending Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2018 in Chicago, IL.

Yingting Zhang was part of the Middlesex County and Somerset County Joint Health Literacy and Cultural Competency Working Group which won the 2017 Health Research and Educational Trust Outreach Award at the New Jersey Hospital Association Annual Conference held in Princeton, NJ in January 2017.

Yingting Zhang, Best Poster, “Provision of Research Support Services: A New Role for Health Sciences Librarians,” Taiwan Medical Library Association, Taipei, Taiwan, March 31, 2017.

Yingting Zhang received a Chapter Award Certificate for Outstanding contribution at the New York-New Jersey Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting held in New Brunswick, NJ in October 2017.

Leadership:

Kayo Denda was chair of the International Federation of Libraries Associations and Institutions, Social Sciences Section from 2015-2017.

Mina Ghajar was elected secretary of the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey.

Mina Ghajar was elected secretary of the New York-New Jersey Chapter of the Medical Library Association.

Nancy Kranich was has been elected director of the National Issues Forums Institute, 2018–2021.

Nancy Kranich served as a delegate for the 43rd Plenary Session, Dartmouth Conference—U.S. Russia Citizen-to-Citizen Direct Dialogue, Zavidovo and Moscow, Russia, September 25–30, 2017.

Nancy Kranich appointed to RU CARES: Community Action, Respect, Engagement and Service, Faculty Working Group, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Collaborative for Community Based Research and Service, 2017.

Triveni Kuchi was co-chair of the Budget, Planning & Infrastructure Committee of the New Brunswick Faculty Council, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 2017-2018.

Triveni Kuchi was a member of the Conference Planning Committee 2017, Asian, African, Middle Eastern Section of Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015-2017

Triveni Kuchi was chair of the Membership Committee, Asian, African, Middle Eastern Section of Association of College and Research Libraries, 2016-2017

Triveni Kuchi served as recorder & incoming convener of the Asian, African, Middle Eastern Interest Group of Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017-2018.

Triveni Kuchi will serve as co-chair of the Liaison Committee, Anthropology and Sociology Section of Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017-2019.

Christine A. Lutz was appointed secretary of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance.

Elizabeth Surles was elected to the Music Library Association Archives and Special Collections Committee, February 2015 to present.

Elizabeth Surles served as liaison between the Society of American Archivists’ Performing Arts Roundtable’s leadership and the Music Library Association.

Elizabeth Surles was elected cochair of the Society of American Archivists, Performing Arts Roundtable Steering Committee, 2017-2018.

Elizabeth Surles is founder and lead organizer of Brick City Archivists and Friends, Summer 2014 to present.

Elizabeth Surles was appointed Local Arrangements Committee tri-chair for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, 2017 Newark Meeting.

Elizabeth Surles was elected Junior Co-Chair of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Arline Custer Award Committee, February 2015 to October 2017.

Elizabeth Surles was appointed cochair of the Music Library Association Working Group on Archival Description of Music Materials, February 2016 to present.

Yingting Zhang served as chair, Health Science Library Association of New Jersey Nominating Committee. 2016-2017

Yingting Zhang was elected as International Cooperation Section candidate for 2018 Medical Library Association Nominating Committee.

Yingting Zhang was secretary/treasurer of Medical Library Association International Cooperation Section, 2016-2017.

Yingting Zhang served as chair, Health Science Library Association of New Jersey Personnel Committee. 2016-2017

Yingting Zhang was invited to serve on the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region, Consumer Health Special Advisory Group.

Yingting Zhang served as immediate past president of the Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey, 2016-2017.

December 2017

Comings & Goings:

After a full career at Rutgers University Libraries spanning 32 years, Marty Kesselman will retire on February 1, 2018.

Articles:

Janet Brennan Croft, “Copyright for Scholars: Osmosis Doesn’t Do the Trick Anymore,” Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy 4(1), 2017.

Francesca Giannetti, “A Twitter Case Study for Assessing Digital Sound,” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2018.

Michael Joseph, “‘Allie’ and the Lost War,” The Lion and the Unicorn, 41(2), pp. 250-268.

Jim Niessen, “God Brought the Hungarians: Emigration and Refugee Relief in the Light of Cold War Religion,” Hungarian Historical Review 6(3), 2017, pp. 566–596.

Judit Hajnal Ward and William Bejarano, “Információs műveltség az addiktológiában [Information literacy in addiction science],” Orvosi Könyvtárak [Medical Libraries] 14(4), 50-55, 2017.

Books (including chapters):

Amy Kimura and Heather Dalal, “Unmasking the Authentic User Experience: How Video Evidence Can Make the Case for Improving Virtual Space,” in User Experience in Libraries: Yearbook 2017, edited by Andy Priestner (UX in Libraries, December 12, 2017).

Presentations:

Kayo Denda, “Gender Equality and Diversity at Rutgers University Libraries,” National Women’s Education Center, Saitama-ken, Japan, November 6, 2017.

Kayo Denda, “New Paradigm of Librarianship: From Possibility to Action,” 19th Library Fair and Forum Speaker’s Corner, Yokohama, Japan, November 8, 2017.

Kayo Denda, “Subject Expertize and Librarianship: Research Support in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University,”  Librarian Career Research Forum, University of Tokyo, November 11, 2017.

Jim Niessen, “Cold War Ecumenism: Religious Relief Agencies in the Hungarian Refugee Crisis,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Chicago, IL, November 12, 2017.

Jim Niessen attended the annual meeting of the Hungarian Diaspora Council in Budapest as the representative of the American Hungarian Educators Association.

November 2017

Comings & Goings:

Ka-Neng Au, business librarian and head of technical services at John Cotton Dana LIbrary, is retiring at the end of the year.

Laura Costello will be joining Shared User Services as the Virtual Reference Services Librarian. She will start on January 8, 2018.

University Archivist Tom Frusciano will be retiring from Rutgers at the end of December.

Regina Koury will assume the duties of Director of the Paul Robeson Library as of January 16, 2018.

Ken Kuehl, a long-time member of the communications department and the Libraries, will officially retire on January 1, but October 17 was his last day in the office. Ken has many close friends in the Libraries and in the administrative suite, and he has been a wonderful colleague to the communications team. We will miss him very much, but we are happy that he will have more time to spend with his family and to pursue his own interests.

James (Jamey) Silverstein will join the Carr Library Access Services department on November 6.  Jamey will assume the role of Library Assistant II, handling Collection Management responsibilities.

Articles:

Andrea Reed and Mark Puterbaugh, “Digital Badges and Library Instructional Programs: Academic Library Case Study,” Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship 29(4), November 2017.

Andrea Norberg, John Nelson, Cheryl Holly, Sarah T. Jewell, Susan W. Salmond, “Experiences of HIV-infected adults and health care providers with health care delivery practices influencing engagement in primary health care settings: a qualitative systematic review,” JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 2017.

Nancy Kranich, “Libraries: Reuniting the Divided States of America,” Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 87(4): 1-19, 2017.

Judit Hajnal Ward, William Bejarano, Thomas F. Babor, and Nicholas Allred, “Reintroducing Bunky at 125: E.M. Jellinek’s Life and Contributions to Alcohol Studies,” Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 77(3): 375-383, 2016.

Megan Lotts, “Low Cost High-Impact Makerspaces at the Rutgers University Art Library,” Art Documentation 36(2): 345- 362, Fall 2017.

Bart Everts, “The Business of War: The Peirce School in World War I,” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 84(4), 488-502, 2017.

Lynn Silipigni Connaway, William Harvey, Vanessa Kitzie, and Stephanie Mikitish of OCLC Research, “Academic Library Impact: Improving Practice and Essential Areas to Research,” Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017.

Jordan Nielsen, Erin Wachowicz, Benjamin Hall, Holly Inglis, and Felipe Castillo, “The ABCs of Private Equity and Venture Capital Data and Information,” Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship 22(3-4), 231-238.

Books (including chapters):

Katie Elson Anderson, “Building Communities of Practice in the Library Profession,” in Using Social Media to Build Library Communities: A LITA Guide, edited by Scott W.H. Young and Doralyn Rossmann (New York: Rowan & Littlefield, 2017), pp. 97-109.

Triveni Kuchi, “Myanmar Librarians’ Research and Study Tour at the Rutgers University Libraries – A Report,” in The Globalized Library:  American Academic Libraries and International Students, Collections and Practices edited by Yelena Luckert & Lindsay Inge, (Chicago: ACRL Press, 2018).

Isaiah Beard, “Digital Photos, Embedded Metadata, and Personal Privacy,” in The Complete Guide to Personal Digital Archiving edited by Brianna H. Marshall (Chicago: ALA Editions, 2017), Chapter 13.

Tom Glynn, “Reading Publics: Books, Communities and Readers in the Early History of American Public Libraries,” in Before the Public Library: Reading, Community, and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 edited by Mark Towsey, Kyle B. Roberts (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 323-346.

Presentations:

Katie Elson Anderson, “Memes IRL: How the Performance Art of LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner Unleased an Internet Subculture into the Real World,” Internet and Culture Panel, Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association  Philadelphia, PA, November 11, 2017.

Triveni Kuchi, “Glocal Niche: Creating Unique Media Collections in Collaboration – A South Asian Studies Report,” invited Presentation for Global Scholarly Communication: International Collaboration with Focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Forum of Asia, Africa and Middle East Section AAMES, ACRL, ALA held at the Annual Conference of ALA, Chicago, IL, June 24, 2017.

Christie Lutz, “Making a Scene: Creating Local Music Scene Archives as Cultural Spaces,” Atlantic/Greater New York Music Library Association Joint Meeting, New Brunswick, NJ, October 13, 2017.

Laura Bowering Mullen and P. Scott Lapinski, “Implementing Institutional Open Access Policies: Challenges and Opportunities,” National Federation of Advanced Information Systems (NFAIS) 2017 Open Access Conference: Open Access & Beyond, Alexandria, VA, October 2, 2017.

Jordan Nielsen and Keven Jeffery, “Sensors in the Stacks: The Internet of Things and Libraries,” Library Information Technology Association Forum, Denver, CO, November 2017.

Julie Still and Zara Wilkinson, “Buffy, Batgirl, and Comic Cons: Organizing a Conference or a Convention,” a poster presented at the Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 17, 2017.

Bob Vietrogoski, “Soldier Care Stateside: New Jersey’s World War I Military Hospitals,” organizer and chair, New Jersey Historical Commission Conference: New Jersey and the Great War, Rowan College at Burlington County, Mount Laurel NJ, November 2017.

Bob Vietrogoski, “Embarkation, Debarkation, Rehabilitation, General, and Base: An Overview of New Jersey’s World War I Military Hospitals,” New Jersey Historical Commission Conference: New Jersey and the Great War, Rowan College at Burlington County, Mount Laurel NJ, November 2017.

Service:

Irina Radeva has become an intern for the NJLA Professional Development Committee.

Julie Still was elected president of the Camden College of Arts & Science Faculty Senate for 2017-2018.

Zara Wilkinson was appointed to the planning committee for the 2018 Colloquium on Libraries & Service Learning, which will be held at American University.

Grants & Awards:

Tom Frusciano received the 2017 Roger H. McDonough Librarianship Award from the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance. The annual award, named for New Jersey State Librarian McDonough, has been given since 2002 to a librarian, archivist, or manuscript curator for excellence in service to the New Jersey history research community and general public.

October 2017

In Memoriam:

Charlie Weniger, former Imaging Services staff member, passed away on September 6.  As a recent retiree, many will remember the pleasure of working with him. He is survived by his wife, Penny Weniger, also a retiree from Access Services, and family. Charlie’s obituary and messages of condolences can be sent at the following link: http://www.gleasonfuneralhome.com/book-of-memories/3126249/Weniger-Charles/obituary.php

Comings & Goings:

Kaila Ward joined the Douglass Library Access Services team September 19, 2017. Kaila will assume the role of Library Assistant II, assisting with the management of the Douglass Library Access Services part-time employee staff pool.  Kaila is a recent Rutgers University graduate and comes with years of experience as a Student Assistant with the Media Center, Douglass Library in New Brunswick.

Articles:

Judit Hajnal Ward, review of “Publishing Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed,” Ed. Thomas Babor, Kerstin Stenius, Richard Pates, Michal Miovský, Jean O’Reilly, and Paul Candon, SALIS News, Summer 2017.

Krista White, “Minding the Gaps: Interprofessional Communication and the Stewardship of Oral Histories With Sensitive Information,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 43(4), July 2017, 354-363.

Grants & Awards:

Irina Radeva received a scholarship from Rutgers School of Communication and Information to attend the NJ State Library’s Futures Conference in Atlantic City, September 25-26, 2017.

Yingting Zhang received the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries’ Data Scholarship which will support her participation in the Research Data Access and Preservation Summit next year in Chicago.

Presentations:

Leslin H. Charles,  “Leveraging Partnerships to Assess Library Impact on Undergraduate Student Learning via a Longitudinal Study,” presentation at the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL), St. Malo, France,  September 18-21, 2017.

September 2017

In Memoriam:

Daisy E. Shenholm, former director of Douglass Library for nearly 20 years, passed away on June 4, 2017, in Hanover, N.H.

Articles:

Leslin H. Charles, “Embracing Challenges in Times of Change: A Survey of the Readiness of Academic Librarians in New Jersey for Transition to the ACRL Framework,” Communications in Information Literacy, 11(1), 221-245, 2017.

Sheridan Sayles, “My Story of Preserving a Senator’s Social Media,” Electronic Records Committee, August 1, 2017.

Robert Vietrogoski, book review of Karen L. Walloch, The Antivaccine Heresy: Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the Troubled History of Compulsory Vaccination in the United States, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015, in The Watermark, Summer 2017, 40(3):52-54.

Books (including chapters):

Zara Wilkinson, “Where No Girl Has Gone Before? Teenage Girls in Star Trek’s Strong Female Future” in To Boldly Go: Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Universe, eds, Nadine Farghaly and Simon Bacon (McFarland, 2017).

Grants & Awards:

Zara Wilkinson was selected to receive a travel stipend from the Center for Research Libraries to support attendance at “New Directions for Libraries, Scholars, and Partnerships: An International Symposium,” planned in conjunction with the Frankfurt Book Fair, the symposium will be held at the German National Library in Frankfurt, Germany, in October 2017.

Presentations:

Lotts, Megan, “Creativity and Engagement: Low Cost, High Impact, Pop-up Makerspaces.” Keynote Speaker at the State University of New York (SUNY) Fashion Institute of Technology staff retreat, New York City, August, 2017.

Robert Vietrogoski, “The Lives and Work of Samuel and June Orton,” hour-long presentation on the history of dyslexia held at Columbia University Medical Center, Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, New York NY, Fairleigh Dickinson University Graduate Learning Disabilities Program, July 2017.

Zara Wilkinson and Katherine Kott, “Setting the Stage: Community Engagement in Your Library,” workshop presented at the Colloquium on Libraries and Service Learning: Bridging Campus and Community, Santa Clara, CA, August 7, 2017.

Connie Wu provided two training sessions for the Foreign University Administrator Training Program at Rutgers University-New Brunswick to 34 people in August. Her topic is on Intercultural Property Management in American Universities. She covered basics on patents, trademarks, copyright and trade secret, history and current situation in IP management in American universities and Rutgers ORC model.

Service:

Judy Cohn has been selected by the nominating committee of the Association Academic Health Sciences Libraries to be president-elect.

Kayo Denda is now a  member of the board of Women Make Movies, a film distributor that works with films created by women.

August 2017

Comings & Goings:

Colin Bitter joined Central Technical Services on July 24 as the Head of Monographs Cataloging and Database Management. Colin comes to Rutgers from Camden County College, where he served as the Systems/Web Librarian.

Amy Kimura will join Shared User Services as the Web Services Librarian on August 7, 2017. Amy comes to us from the Talbott Library at Westminster Choir College of Rider University where she worked with the web team and librarians on website/library resource design and improvements to the library’s online tools.

Soo Lee has been promoted to Library Associate II Resource Sharing Coordinator at Carr Library. Since 2013 Soo had served as the Library Assistant II for Collection Management at Carr and previously worked in Special Collections and University Archives and Interlibrary Loan Services.

Grace McGarty is now the Library Associate II Student Coordinator at Carr. She was previously the Library Associate II Resource Sharing Coordinator.

Director of Development Nancy McMurrer submitted her resignation and her last day in the office is August 1.

Lucy Vidal joined Collection Development and Management in the Collection Services and Resource Sharing Department (CSRS) as Serials Acquisitions Supervisor on July 31st. Lucy has been a part of the Rutgers community as the Associate Director for Operations for the Center for Women’s Global Leadership where she has had oversight of internal operations.

Books (including chapters):

Vibiana Cvetkovic, “Mount Holly,” Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, (Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities at Rutgers-Camden, July 2017).

Bart Everts, “Doylestown,” Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, (Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities at Rutgers-Camden, July 2017).

Jordan M. Nielsen and Keven M. Jeffery, “Using proximity beacons and the Physical Web to promote library research and instructional services,” Mobile technology and academic libraries: Innovative services for research and learning, edited by Robin Canuel and Chad Crichton (Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries, 2017).

Articles:

Leslin H. Charles, “Embracing Challenges in Times of Change: A Survey of the Readiness of Academic Librarians in New Jersey for Transition to the ACRL Framework,” Communications in Information Literacy, 11(1), 221-245, 2017.

Ron Jantz, “Vision, innovation, and leadership in research libraries,” Library & Information Science Research, 39(3), 234–241, 2017.

Jim Niessen, “God Brought the Hungarians: Emigration and Refugee Relief in the Light of Cold War Religion,” Hungarian Historical Review, Budapest, forthcoming.

Announcement of the Andrew Hill papers, music and audiovisual recordings in “Notes for Notes,” Notes, 73(3), 506, March 2017.

Grants & Awards:

Special Collections and University Archives received a FY18 General Operating Support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission in the amount of $95,230.

Presentations:

Isaiah Beard, “Digitization Basics for Newspaper and Photographs,” New Jersey Library Association, webinar, October 26, 2016.

Ron Jantz, “The Research Library: Vision, Innovation, and Leadership,” Association of College and Research Libraries, poster, Baltimore, MD, March 22-24, 2017.

Megan Lotts, “Connecting with Patrons, Highlighting the Collections, and Learning About the Library: Low Cost High-Impact Makerspaces in U.S. Art Libraries,” Art Libraries Society of United Kingdom and Ireland annual conference, Dublin, Ireland, July 12-15, 2017.

Jim Niessen, “The Development of Catholic Parishes in New Brunswick,” New Brunswick Free Public Library, April 29, 2017.

Jim Niessen, “Heritage and Repatriation in the History of Habsburg and Hungarian Archives,” Annual Conference of the American Hungarian Educators Association in Toronto, May 28, 2017.

Jim Niessen, “Heritage and Repatriation in the History of Habsburg and Hungarian Archives,” WESS Research Forum at the American Library Association Conference, Chicago, June 24, 2017.

Frans Albarillo, Lee Ann Fullington, Elizabeth Surles, and Eamon Tewell, “Living to Tell the Tale: Librarians and an Archivist Come Clean about Their Original Research Projects,” METRO Annual Conference, panel, January 11, 2017.

Elizabeth Surles, “Faces and Places in Newark’s Jazz History: From Savoy Records to Sparky J’s to Sarah Vaughan,” Adult School of Montclair at the Montclair Public Library, lecture, December 8, 2016.

Elizabeth Surles, “Discord in Archival Description? Evaluating DACS Compliance and Best Practices through Document Analysis of Finding Aids for Music Materials,” Society of American Archivists Research Forum, paper, August 2, 2016.

Elizabeth Surles, “DACS and Archival Music Collections: A Crash Course for Music Librarians,” Music Library Association Annual Meeting, paper, March 5, 2016.

Frans Albarillo, Lee Ann Fullington, Elizabeth Surles, and Eamon Tewell, and Brandon West, “Building Your Methods Toolkit: Research Design for Information Professionals,” METRO Annual Conference, panel, January 21, 2016.

Elizabeth Surles, “Reaching In to Reach Out: Examining the State of Inclusivity Across Libraries, Archives, and Museums,” The Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, invited panelist, Portland, OR, 27 July 2017.

Sam Kennedy and Zara Wilkinson, “In it for the Long-Haul: Long-Term IL Assessment Questions and Practices,” New Jersey Library Association, College and University Section, User Education and Assessment Workshop, “Diving Deep: Exploring New Possibilities in Information Literacy and Assessment Workshop,” roundtable discussion, Randolph, NJ, July 20, 2017.

Service:

Leslin H. Charles has been elected President, Association of College and Research Libraries, NJ/NJLA CUS, 2017-2018.

Laura Bowering Mullen is the chair for the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI), 2017-2018.

Jordan M. Nielsen served as Chair of the Business Reference Sources Committee, a committee within Reference and User Services Association, Business Reference and Services Section, 2016-2017.

Jordan M. Nielsen, appointed to the Reference and User Services Association’s, Business Reference and Services Section’s Education Committee, 2017-2019.

July 2017

Comings & Goings:

Melissa Gasparotto has accepted a position in the Collections and Research Services Department at the New York Public Library and will be leaving Rutgers in early July. Her new position is, indeed, new. She will be the first Assistant Director for Research Services across the NYPL Research Libraries. In this exciting position she will be responsible for integrating the user experience into print and digital collections strategy.

On June 12, Wei Huang joined Alexander Library as Access Services Library Assistant 2 – Assistant Student Coordinator. Wei is not completely new to the Libraries. He is a graduate of the College of Engineering and was a student employee at Alexander Access Services and the SERC reading room while in college. Following graduation, he continued working nights and weekends for 15 years or so.

In Memoriam:

Dr. Benice Ray, graduate of the Rutgers University School  of Communication and Information, passed on June 6, 2017.  Dr. Ray, formerly known as Bernice R. Jones, graduated from the Master’s of Library Studies, and Ph.D.Program with a focus Academic Librarianship, and she worked at John Cotton Dana Library in Newark, NJ for a number of years.  There will a Memorial Service on Saturday, June 17th, in Corinth. MS.  The service will be held at Paterson’s Memorial Chapel, 125 Franklin Street, Corinth, MS 38834. The family would appreciate remembrances be forwarded to the Chapel, before 12 Noon, when the service will begin.

Promotions:

The following librarians have been promoted to Librarian II with Tenure:

• Joseph Deodato, Digital User Services Librarian
• Bonnie Fong, Physical Sciences Librarian and Head, Emerging Technologies
• Caryn Radick, Digital Archivist

In addition, Michael Joseph, Rare Book Librarian, has been promoted to Librarian I.

Articles:

Francesca Giannetti, review of Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists by Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura Braunstein, and Liorah Golomb, eds, Reference and User Services Quarterly 55(3), Spring 2016.

Francesca Giannetti, “Against the Grain: Reading for the Challenges of Collaborative DH Pedagogy,” College & Undergraduate Libraries 24(2/3), 2017.

Nancy Kranich, “Long Overdue: Revisiting Library Privacy Policies During Choose Privacy Week,” Choose Privacy Week Blog, May 1, 2017.

Jane Otto, & Laura Bowering Mullen, “The Rutgers Open Access Policy goes into effect: Faculty reaction and implementation lessons learned,” Paper under review, QQML e-Journal.

Laura Palumbo, “Championing Institutional Goals: Academic Libraries Supporting Graduate Women in STEM,” Journal of Academic Librarianship, 42(3): 192-199, May 2016.

Laura Palumbo, “‘Data Curation for Reuse’ at the ACRL 2017 conference,” e-Science Community Blog, March 28, 2017.

Fernanda Perrone, Lydia Tang, Blake Relle, Erin Wolfe, “Making Archives and Special Collections Accessible,”  Archival Outlook, November–December 2016, 4–5 and 28.

Fernanda Perrone, “The Rutgers Network in Meiji Japan,” Rikkyo American Studies (39): 80–101, 2017.

Grants & Awards:

Francesca Giannetti, DHSI Tuition Scholarships for “XML Applications for Historical and Literary Research” and “Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists” courses at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Canada, June 2017.

Francesca Giannetti, DHSI Tuition Scholarship for “R, Interactive Graphics, and Data Visualization for the Humanities” course at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Canada, June 2016.

Megan Lotts announced that the Rutgers Art Library has been chosen for a Freedom to Read grant! This was a very competitive year, and the committee flagged the Rutgers proposal as among the best. This will be an exciting project this fall, involving collaboration with many of the Arts related communities on campus, as well as many mini celebrations and events for banned books week in the libraries

Fernanda Perrone, Invitee Research Associate, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, 2016.

Books (including chapters):

Fernanda Perrone, “’To Care for the Sick and Needy Poor So Numerous There’: The Franciscan Sisters of the Poor in Hudson County During the Civil War Era,” in Essays on New Jersey Catholic History (South Orange, NJ: New Jersey Catholic Historical Commission, 2016): 33–62.

Thomas F. Babor, Dominique Morisano, Jonathan Noel, Katherine Robaina, Judit H. Ward, and Andrea Mitchell, “Infrastructure and career opportunities in addiction science: The emergence of an interdisciplinary field,” Publishing Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, Ed. Thomas F. Babor, Kerstin Stenius, Richard Pates, Michal Miovský, Jean O’Reilly, Paul Candon (Ubiquity Press, 2017).

Phil Lange, Richard Pates, Jean O’Reilly and Judit H. Ward, “How to Write a Scientific Article for a Peer-Reviewed Journal,” Publishing Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, Ed. Thomas F. Babor, Kerstin Stenius, Richard Pates, Michal Miovský, Jean O’Reilly, Paul Candon (Ubiquity Press, 2017).

Thomas F. Babor, Dominique Morisano, Kerstin Stenius and Judit H. Ward, “How to Choose a Journal: Scientific and Practical Considerations,” Publishing Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, Ed. Thomas F. Babor, Kerstin Stenius, Richard Pates, Michal Miovský, Jean O’Reilly, Paul Candon (Ubiquity Press, 2017).

Presentations:

Leslin H. Charles, “Leveraging Partnerships to Assess Library Impact on Undergraduate Student Learning Via a Longitudinal Study,” poster presentation, ALA Conference, Chicago, June 2017.

Kayo Denda, program chair, “User Experience (UX) and Social Science Libraries in the Digital Age,” 2016 WLIC IFLA Social Science Library Section Conference Program, Columbus, OH, August 16, 2016.

Kayo Denda, IFLA Global Vision Workshop, Athens, Greece, April 4-5, 2017

Francesca Giannetti and Anna Kijas, “A DH-Leavened Musicological Toolbox,” poster presentation at Digital Humanities 2016, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Krakòw, Poland, July 12-16, 2016.

Nancy Kranich, “Anchors Aweigh: The Role of Institutions in Spanning the Digital Divide,” Partnership for the Progress on the Digital Divide Conference, San Diego, CA, May 25, 2017.

Nancy Kranich, “Strengthening Civil Society/Library Education,” keynote virtual presentation to the Slovakian, Czech, and Polish Librarians, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, April 3, 2017.

Mary Alexander, Rhonda Marker, Lisa McFall, and Emma Wilson, “Metadata and Digital Humanities: The Newest Form of Library Outreach,” panel presentation, Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, Baltimore, MD.

Jill Nathanson and Mei Ling Lo, “Working together, working smarter: what can librarians do for your online class?” 8th Annual Rutgers Online Learning Conference, Somerset, NJ, March 2017.

Jane Otto, “Developing and Delivering a Compelling Open Access Message to University Faculty,” Qualitative and Quantitative Methods International Conference International Conference, Limerick, Ireland, May 17, 2017.

Jane Otto and Laura Bowering Mullen, “The Rutgers Open Access Policy goes into effect: Faculty reaction and implementation lessons learned,” paper, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods International Conference, Limerick, Ireland, May 2017.

Laura Palumbo and Amy Sarjeant, “In Your Backyard: The Cambridge Structural Database and the Libraries Data Management Services,” workshop presented at Rutgers University Library of Science and Medicine, New Brunswick, NJ, November 2016.

Ian Bruno and Laura Palumbo, “Collaborating Across Campus and Around the World: Introducing Librarians and Researchers to the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre,” Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ, June 2017.

Laura Palumbo and Sara Wright, “Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work,” Association of College and Research Libraries licensed work by Goben and Sapp-Nelson, presented at State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, May 2017.

Fernanda Perrone, “Digital Collections and Women Religious,” American Catholic Historical Association, Denver, CO, January 6, 2016.

Fernanda Perrone, “The Modern School of Stelton,” Past Perfect: Utopian Visions in Historical Perspective, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, January 27, 2016.

Fernanda Perrone, “Women Religious in Texas,” commentator, Texas Historical Association, Houston, TX, March 2, 2017.

Fernanda Perrone, “Griffis in Fukui: Another Look,” Griffis Museum, Fukui, Japan, November 11, 2016.

Fernanda Perrone, “Reevaluating the Loretto Community’s Higher Education Mission,” History of Women Religious Triennial Conference, Santa Clara, CA, June 27, 2016.

Fernanda Perrone, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in the Archives,” From Exclusion to Inclusion: 250 Years of Women at Rutgers, One Day Symposium, Mabel Smith Douglass Library, March 8, 2016.

Fernanda Perrone, “The Rutgers Network in Early Meiji Japan,” Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, November 8, 2016.

Sheridan Sayles, “From Star Wars to Wikileaks: Questions of Formats and Access in the Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Collection,” Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, April 2017.

Sheridan Sayles, “From Ballot Box to Document Box: Exploring Contemporary Challenges with Congressional Papers,” Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, April 2017.

Adriana Cuervo and Elizabeth Surles, “Diversity in the Archival Record:  The Institute of Jazz Studies Archives Fellowship,” paper presented at Rutgers University’s Symposium Scholarship, Research, and Best Practices in Diversity & Inclusion: Current Findings and Emerging Issues, March 31, 2017.

Roberta Tipton and Patricia A. Bender, “The Dana Writers Group: Building a Community of Academic Writers,”  New Jersey Library Association, Atlantic City, NJ, April 26, 2017.

Lily Todorinova, “Technologies that Enhance the First Year Experience,” organizer and moderator, American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, June 24, 2017. n

Lily Todorinova, “Wikipedia and the Academic Library: Increasing Diversity and Critical Thinking,” Women’s History Month 2017 Conference, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, NJ, March 3, 2017.

Lily Todorinova, “Open and Affordable Textbook (OAT) Grant Program at Rutgers University,” 2017 NJEdge Faculty Showcase in Monmouth University, NJ, March 15, 2017.

Judit Hajnal Ward, “Addiction Information Literacy Workshop,” Hungarian National Health Science Library, Budapest, Hungary, May 19, 2017.

Judit Hajnal Ward, “Information literacy in addiction science,” invited presenter, Annual Conference of the Hungarian Medical Library Association, Budapest, Hungary, May 18, 2017.

Zara Wilkinson, Lily Todorinova, Bonnie Fong, Mary Beth Weber, Laura Palumbo, and Roberta Fitzpatrick, “Open and Affordable Textbook Program at Rutgers University,” poster presentation, American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, June 24, 2017.

Ryan Womack, “Big Data, Data Visualization, and Reproducible Research,” Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, May 12, 2017.

Ryan Womack, “Data Literacy for All,” IASSIST Annual Conference, Lawrence, KS, May 23, 2017.

Ryan Womack, “Topics in Data Science [Data Visualization, Big Data, Reproducible Research, and Data Literacy]”, National Statistics Office of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, May 8-9, 2017.

Ryan Womack, “Big Data and Data Visualization,” Mongolian University of Life Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, May 11, 2017.

Ryan Womack, “Data Literacy,” National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, May 10, 2017.

Ryan Womack, “Data in Libraries: Data Processing and Visualization,” Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association, online, May 4, 2017.

Service:

Leslin H. Charles has been appointed editor of Chapter Topics: The Newsletter of the ACRL Chapters Council, 2017-2018.

Francesca Giannetti is a member of the Programme Committee, Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2017), October 28, 2017.

Nancy Kranich is a member of the American Library Association, Libraries Transform Communities Models for Change Advisory Committee, 2016–2018.

Nancy Kranich is a member of the ACRL Academic Library of the Year Committee, 2016–2018.

Nancy Kranich is an elected member of the ALA Leroy Merritt Humanitarian Fund, 2017–2019.

Nancy Kranich is program convener (2016 – 2018) and co-moderator of meeting “Russia-U.S. Library Dialogue, Building Strong Communities: The Civic Role of Libraries in the 21st Century,” for the Kettering Foundation, Dayton, OH, March 30-31, 2017.

Laura Palumbo was elected chair-elect of the Physics-Astronomy-Math Division of the Special Libraries Association, July 2016.

Sheridan Sayles served as peer reviewer for the Access to Historical Records—Archival Projects grant applications for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives and Records Administration, March 2017.

Elizabeth Sosnowska appointed committee chair, Health Sciences Library Association of NJ Education Committee.

Elizabeth Sosnowska served as the MLA Research Awards judge, MLA/CHLA/ICLC Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2016.

Elizabeth Sosnowska served on the 2017 VALE/NJ ACRL/NJLA CUS Users’ Conference Planning Committee, as the chair of Breakouts Committee.

Elizabeth Sosnowska elected 2017/2018 vice-president of the Health Sciences Library Association of NJ.

Elizabeth Sosnowska served as the MLA Research Awards judge, 2017 MLA Annual Conference, Seattle, WA.

June 2017

Comings & Goings:

Linda Langschied will retire from the Libraries on July 1, 2017. Linda has had a long and productive career at Rutgers, which began 31 years ago when she accepted a Librarian IV reference position in Alexander Library. During her time at Rutgers, Linda was at the vanguard of developing our statewide digital presence, helping to design the Scholarly Communication Center and becoming its director. She is the digital project manager for the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library and the New Jersey Digital Highway, both of which she helped to found as the principal investigator for their respective grants. She has fostered relationships between Rutgers and libraries around the state, and with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Recently, she negotiated the donation of New Jersey Work Environment Council (WEC) archives to the library, with the proviso that they would be available through NJEDL.

Congratulations!

Bonnie Fong, Roberta Tipton, Minglu Wang, and Krista White received the NJLA College and University Section (CUS) Association of College and Research Libraries New Jersey Chapter Annual Research Award for Journal of Academic Librarianship article, “Assessing and Serving the Workshop Needs of Graduate Students.”

Congratulations to Stephanie Mikitish, User Engagement/Assessment Librarian at John Cotton Dana Library, who completed her PhD this year. Her dissertation is titled, “Information Engagement: How Social Science Doctoral Students Seek, Filter, Access, and Organize Information,” and was supervised by Marie L. Radford, Daniel O O’Connor, Ross J. Todd, and Lynn Silipigni Connaway. A recording of her presentation is available at: http://bit.ly/2pLmkiS.

Laura Bowering Mullen was appointed to the Rutgers Research Council for a three year term starting in April, 2017.

Laura Bowering Mullen was appointed by SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) to its  Open Access Week 2017 Advisory Committee.

Krista White received a Rutgers-Newark Seed Grant $10,000 to fund her proposal, “Digital Storytelling as 21st Century Pedagogy”. Digital Storytelling as 21st Century Pedagogy (DS21P)funds will be used to create a series of undergraduate courses by connecting three general education courses providing a continuous theme using multimedia authoring tools for scholarly production. Assignments in each course will use oral histories collections from across Rutgers University and from the Newark Public Library as primary resources. The goal of this  course series is to improve students’ critical thinking, academic writing, creative problem solving and information evaluation skills.

Books (inc. chapters):

Nancy-Lou Patterson, Detecting Wimsey: Papers on Dorothy L. Sayers’s Detective Fiction, edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Emily E. Auger; includes introduction, bibliography, and index by Janet Brennan Croft, The Patterson Papers, Vol. III (Valley Home Press, 2017).

Presentations/Talks/Posters

Janet Brennan Croft, Leslie Donovan, David Oberhelman, Kris Larsen, David Emerson, and Tamy Burnett, “’We’ll hit serious research mode!’: Libraries and Research Methods in Science Fiction and Fantasy,” roundtable, Southwest Popular and American Culture Association conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 17, 2017.

Janet Brennan Croft, Leslie Donovan, David Oberhelman, Kris Larsen, and David Emerson, “Popular Culture Resources and Careers: A Roundtable,” panel discussion, University of New Mexico Hobbit Society, February 15, 2017.

Janet Brennan Croft, “Theory of Bibliography and the Scholarly Conversation,” guest lecture, Signum University LITZ 5301 Research Methods, January 2017.

Janet Brennan Croft, “Hell and Back: Helena as Kore and Shaman in Orphan Black,” Southwest Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 17, 2017; Rutgers-Camden ComicCon, April 8, 2017; Mythcon 48, July 2017.

Janet Brennan Croft, “’What if I’m still there? What if I never left that clinic?’: Faërian Drama in Buffy’s ‘Normal Again’,” Buffy at 20, Marquette University, April 1, 2017; Mythcon 48, July 2017.

Jordan Nielsen, Laurel Bliss, and Keven Jeffery, “We solemnly swear that we are up to no good: Pop culture marketing in the library,” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, San Diego, CA, April 14, 2017.

Jordan Nielsen and Keven Jeffery, “Location, location, location: Creating location-based services with proximity beacons and the Physical Web,” Association of College & Research Libraries, Baltimore, MD, March 25, 2017.

Krista White, “’On the Technical Side: Preserving Digital Scholarly Research,” Panel presentation, MARAC Spring Conference, Newark, NJ, April 21, 2017.

Recently published articles:

Corey Basch and Victoria H. Wagner, “Popular literature in public health: Exploring connections between public health and humanities,” Journal of Health Education Teaching, 8(1): 17-25, (2017).

Janet Brennan Croft, “The Name of the Ring: Or, There and Back Again,” Mythlore 35.2 (#130), 81-94, (2017).

Janet Brennan Croft, “Review of The Golden Key: A Victorian Fairy Tale, by George MacDonald, illustrations by Ruth Sanderson,” Mythprint 54.1, 7-8, (2017).

Janet Brennan Croft, “Briefly noted” review column, Mythlore 35.2 (#130), 199-201, (2017).

Keven Jeffery, Kathryn Houk, Jordan Nielsen, Jenny Wong-Welch, “Digging in the mines: Mining course syllabi in search of the library,” Evidence Based Library & Information Practice, 12(1), 72-84, (2017).

May 2017

Comings & Goings:

Katherine Gomez joined Alexander Library Access Services as a Library Assistant 2 – Collection Management on April 17th. Kathy is a recent RU graduate and comes to us with years of experience as a Circulation Assistant at the New Brunswick Public Library.

Presentations/Talks/Posters

Kristin Briney & Laura Palumbo, “Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work,” Association of College and Research Libraries licensed work by Goben and Sapp-Nelson, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, 2017.

Christina Chan-Park, Abigail Goben, & Laura Palumbo, “Assessing Your Toolkit: Is the Research Data Management Roadshow For You?” Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2017.

Leslin H. Charles, “Step out of the Information Literacy assessment box: Determining library impact on student learning via a longitudinal study,” New Jersey Library Association, Atlantic City, NJ, April 2017.

Bart Everts, “Connecting on Cooper: Library Services for Camden County College and Rowan University in Camden,” New Jersey Library Association, Atlantic City, NJ, April 24, 2017.

Megan Lotts, “Student Paintings, Tattoo artists, and Scientists: The Rutgers University Art Library Exhibition Spaces,” Poster Session at the Art Libraries Society of North America/NY annual conference re-cap, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, April 2017.

Megan Lotts, “Coloring outside the Information Literacy Lines: The Art Library Coloring Book,” Presentation at the Association of College & Research Libraries annual conference, Baltimore, MD, March 2017.

Megan Lotts, “Student Paintings, Tattoo artists, and Scientists: The Rutgers University Art Library Exhibition Spaces,” Poster Session at the Art Libraries Society of North America annual conference, New Orleans, LA, February 2017.

Bob Vietrogoski, “New Jersey and the Preventorium,” Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ, April 4, 2017.

Zara Wilkinson, Sarah Allred, Joseph Barbarese, and Rasheda Weaver, “Can students afford their textbooks? Moving toward OER,” Rutgers University-Camden Faculty eLearning Conference, Camden, NJ, March 30, 2017.

Zara Wilkinson, “Outreach in Academic Libraries,” (round table discussion), NJLA CUS Reference Services Committee Workshop “The New Reference Librarian,” New Brunswick, NJ, April 6, 2017.

Recently published articles:

Nicholas Allred, William Bejarano, and Judit Hajnal Ward, “Howard Wilcox Haggard and the institutionalization of modern alcohol studies,” Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 78, 325-329, 2017.

Isaiah Beard, “The eBethArké Syriac digital library: a case study,” Digital Library Perspectives 33(1), 40-47, 2017.

Megan Lotts, “Legos in the Library,” chapter 11 in The Makerspace Librarian’s Sourcebook, ed. Ellyssa Kroski (Chicago: American Libraries Association, 2017).

Misa Mi and Yingting Zhang, “Culturally competent library services and related factors among health sciences librarians: an exploratory study,” Journal of the Medical Library Association, April 2017.

Julie Still, “Nancy Drew and the Ivory Tower: Early Academic Study of the Girl Detective,” Clues: A Journal of Detection 35(1), 75-84, 2017.

Awards & Honors:

Jim Niessen was featured in the “Alumni Profile” of the latest newsletter of the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana.

Lily Todorinova was elected Vice Chair/Chair Elect for ALA’s Reference and User Services Division Emerging Technologies Section. Her term starts July 1, 2017.

April 2017

Comings & Goings:

RBHS librarians and staff celebrated Bob Cupryk’s retirement at a festive dinner in his honor on Thursday, March 9th. An avid fisherman, Bob is setting sail to spend many relaxing hours engaged in his favorite pastime. Bob had a long career serving in librarian roles at the Smith Library in Cataloging, Reference and ILL; then accepted a librarian position at the RWJ Library focused on Information and Education. We all wish him well!

Presentations/Talks/Posters

Bart Everts, “With the Right Attitude: The Peirce School in World War I,” Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE, March 4, 2017.

Leslin H. Charles & Defabiis, W., “Increasing student engagement in an online graduate course utilizing the framework of Transactional Distance theory and the practice of Embedded Librarianship,” 8th Annual Rutgers Online Learning Conference, Somerset, NJ, March 2017.

Megan Lotts, “Coloring outside the Information Literacy Lines: the Art Library Coloring Book,” Association of College & Research Libraries Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 2017.

Megan Lotts, “Student Paintings, Tattoo artists, and Scientists: the Rutgers University Art Library Exhibition Spaces,” poster, Art Libraries Society of North America Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 2017.

Megan Lotts, “Learning to Look, Looking to Learn: A Workshop in Visual Literacy,” workshop, International Center for Photography, New York, NY, February 22, 2017.

Zara Wilkinson, “Just One. I’m a Few… Who Am I? Multiplicity and the Female Body in Orphan Black,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD, March 24, 2017.

Recently published articles:

Laura Palumbo, “Alleviating the high cost of science textbooks with Open Educational Resources,” Inside Science Resources, March 15, 2017.

Caryn Radick, Review of Bruce Joshua Miller (Ed.), Curiosity’s Cats: Writer’s on Research, in The American Archivist 79(2), 461–464.

Judit Hajnal Ward, “Egyedül nem megy: gondolatok egy addiktológiai biblioterápiai gyűjtemény összeállítása közben [You are not alone: reflections on a bibliotherapy collection for addictions],” Hungarian, Orvosi Könyvtárak [Medical Libraries], 14(1), 2017, 18-28.

Zara Wilkinson, “La situation des emplois de bibliothécaire à temps partiel aux États-Unis: prélude à une crise?” Documentation et bibliothèques 63(1): 37-41, 2017. [“Averting the Adjunct Crisis: A Critical Examination of Part-time Librarianship in the United States.” Presented in English for the bilingual IFLA Marketing and Management Section Satellite Meeting and selected to be translated for this special conference issue of Documentation et bibliothèques.]

Grants & Awards:

Bonnie L. Fong, Minglu Wang, Krista White, and Roberta Tipton won the 2017 Research Award from the Association of College & Research Libraries-New Jersey Chapter and the New Jersey Library Association College and University Section for their Journal of Academic Librarianship article, “Assessing and Serving the Workshop Needs of Graduate Students.”

Stephen Modica was nominated for the second time for a Golden Apple Award in the administration category from New Jersey Medical School. The Golden Apple Awards is an annual Rutgers NJMS tradition that honors and celebrates faculty, residents, and administration for their dedication and contribution to the NJMS community.

March 2017

Comings & Goings:

Mary O’Mara will join New Brunswick Libraries as Unit Computing Manager on March 6th. She will be located at the Kilmer Library and have responsibility for overseeing end user support for the computer environment across the New Brunswick Libraries, including desktop and video conferencing support. Our wonderful unit computing specialists will report to Mary.

Stephanie Mikitish will join the John Cotton Dana Library Faculty, as User Engagement/Assessment Librarian. This is a new position and a first for Dana Library. Stephanie will be responsible for envisioning, developing and implementing a systematic assessment program for Dana Library. Stephanie will start on March 20th, 2017.

Victoria Wagner will join the RBHS Libraries as the Associate Director and Medical Education Coordinator of the Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences at RBHS–New Brunswick. Victoria will start on April 17, 2017.

Presentations/Talks/Posters

Laura Bowering Mullen and Julia Gelfand, “Openness and Transparency: Contributing to the New World of Science Publishing,” Career Development Workshop presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2017 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, February 19, 2017.

Nancy Kranich, “Moving From Nice To Necessary: How Your Library Can Become More Relevant In The Community,” with Cheryl Gorman, Susan Taylor Simpson, and Cara Pryor, Ontario Library Association, Toronto, CA, February 3, 2017.

Nancy Kranich, “Listening to Many Voice: Community Conversations at Rutgers University Libraries,” ALA Futures Symposium, ALA MW Conference, Atlanta, GA, January 22, 2017.

Nancy Kranich, “Teaching Community Engagement,” with Ellen Knutson, Paper Presented at ALISE Conference, Atlanta, GA, January 19, 2017.

Nancy Kranich, “Getting Engaged: Partnering with Libraries in Your Community,” National Coalition on Dialogue and Deliberation, National Conference, Framingham, MA, October 15, 2016.

Nancy Kranich, “Leadership Networking – Harwood Approach & Practices,” Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), ALA Conference, Orlando, FL, June 26, 2016.

Nancy Kranich, “Conscious Engagement for Every Library: Forming Stronger Bonds with our Unique Communities,” NJLA, Atlantic City, NJ, May 17, 2016.

Nancy Kranich, “Decade of Discovery” Film Screening, Panelist on Government E-Mail, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, May 11, 2016.

Recently published articles:

Nancy Kranich, “Mind the Gap: Connecting Academic Libraries and Campus Communities,” NEA Yearbook of Higher Education, 2017.  Washington, DC: National Education Association.

Robert Vietrogoski, “Expelled for “African Blood”: The Story of James Parker Barnett,” Columbia University Medical Center website, February 24, 2017.

Judit Hajnal Ward, book review of Research 2.0 and the future of information literacy, Könyvtári Figyelő 56 (2016), 541-543.

Grants & Awards

Nancy Kranich, OCLC-ALISE LIS Research Grant Program. “Investigating Engagement of Public, Academic, and Medical Libraries with Community-Based Health and Wellness Activities in Diverse Urban Communities,” with Charles Senteio, 2017-2018: $25,000.00.

Nancy Kranich, Kettering Foundation, Russia-U.S. Library Dialogue, Building Strong Communities: The Civic Role of Libraries in the 21st Century, Program Convener, 2016 – 2018.

Nancy Kranich, Kettering Foundation, Libraries and Democracy Learning Exchange, Dayton, OH, 2015 – date. Secured Joint Learning Agreement based on a research proposal: “Engaging Local and Health Science Libraries with the New Brunswick Community: A Collaborative Case Study Research Initiative” with Jeanette Valentine, $5000.00.

February 2017

In Memoriam

Ed Berger, special projects coordinator and former associate director of the Institute of Jazz Studies, passed away on January 22, 2017. Ed played a vital role in the growth and development of the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies where he filled a number of positions for nearly four decades.  He was also an award-winning jazz writer and accomplished photographer, teacher, producer, and road manager.

Former Access Services staff member, Phyllis Palfy, passed away on Saturday, February 4. Phyllis retired in 2002 as the Graduate Reserve coordinator at Alexander library, but she began her work at the libraries back in the 1970’s in the Agricultural library on the Cook Campus.  From the Ag library she moved to the Douglass library were she diligently searched for missing books, processed course reserves and also processed ILL requests. Messages of condolences may be sent to the family: 308a Old Nassau Road, Monroe Township, NJ 08831.

Comings & Goings:

Jordan Nielsen will be joining the New Brunswick Library Faculty as Business & Entrepreneurship Librarian May 1, 2017. Jordan comes to us from San Diego State University, where he has been Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Business Data Librarian.

Awards & Honors

Ken Kuehl completed Communicator Certificate Program

Presentations/Talks/Posters

Erin Ackerman, Zara Wilkinson, and Jennifer Hunter, “Challenge accepted: How new librarians become successful researchers,” 2017 VALE Users’ Conference, New Brunswick, NJ, January 6, 2017.

Lily Todorinova, “Unconference on First Year Experience and Technologies,” ALA Midwinter Meeting 2017, Atlanta, GA.

Recently published articles:

Katie Elson Anderson , (2016) “Getting acquainted with social networks and apps: Gotta catch them all? Augmented reality gaming apps“, Library Hi Tech News 33(10):6-8, 2017.

Vivek H Tank, Ritam Ghosh, Vikas Gupta, Nakul Sheth, Shariyah Gordon, Wenzhuan He, Steven F Modica, Charles J Prestigiacomo, and Chirag D Gandhi, “Drug eluting stents versus bare metal stents for the treatment of extracranial vertebral artery disease: a meta-analysis,” Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, 8(8):770-4, August 2016. (review)

Bob Vietrogoski, book review of Edgar Holden, M.D., of Newark, New Jersey: Provincial Physician on a National Stage by Sandra W. Moss, New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 3(1):199-202, 2017.

Judit Hajnal Ward & William Bejarano, “Broad thinking: An interview with Harold Kalant,” Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 78(1): 158–165, 2017.

Judit Hajnal Ward, “Tintásüveg: Egy biblioterápiai gyűjtemény margójára,” [Ink well: Comments on a bibliotherapy collection. In Hungarian], Könyv, könyvtár, könyvtáros [Books, libraries, librarians] 26(1): 13-23, 2017.

Recently published books (including chapters):

Ronald C. Jantz, “A Vision for the Future: New Roles for Academic Librarians,” Academic Librarianship Today, Ed. Todd Gilman. Rowman & Littlefield, February 2017. (book chapter) Discount order form [PDF]

January 2017

Comings & Goings:

Fay Austin retired on Tuesday, January 17.  Fay has led both the Monographs Cataloging Section and Database Management in Central Technical Services (CTS).  In this capacity, she has overseen original cataloging of monographs and government documents, and has rectified numerous database errors in both the Library Catalog and OCLC.

With Melissa Just‘s departure in December, Jeanne Boyle agreed to serve as the interim Assistant Vice President for Information Services and Director of New Brunswick Libraries.

Please join us in congratulating Abdullah Sherzad, who left Douglass Access Services in on January 6, 2017 to undertake an internship with the BMW Group in South Carolina.

Awards & Honors

Bart Everts was accepted into the 2017 cohort of Engaged Civic Learning Faculty Fellows. The fellowship is run by the Rutgers Office of Civic Engagement and joins faculty from a range of disciplines to create courses that allow students to engage with and positively contribute to the larger Camden community.

Bart Everts was elected to the executive board of NJLA College and University Section as Secretary-Treasurer this year.

Laura Palumbo was featured as ACRL Insider’s Member of the Week!

Connie Wu was invited as a speaker at 2016 Chengdu International Patent Licensing and Technology Transfer Conference in Chengdu, China. She delivered her talk entitled “Issues Related to Patent Licensing and Technology Transfer” on Nov. 14th. Her talk was well received by more than 300 attendees.

Presentations/Talks/Posters

Megan Lotts, “Student Paintings, Tattoo artists, and Scientists: the Rutgers University Art Library Exhibition Spaces,” presentation at the Art Libraries Society of North America Mountain West + Visual Resources Association Wild West Virtual conference, December 2016.

Laura Bowering Mullen and Jane Otto, “Librarians as change agents through open access policymaking,” keynote address at the Association of College and Research Libraries Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia Chapter, Mount Aloysius College, Cresson, PA, December 2, 2016.

Ryan Womack, “Enhancing Understanding Through Data Visualization”, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, December 5, 2016.

Ryan Womack, “Putting Reproducibility into Practice: Workflows and Case Studies”, Rutgers Workshop on Reproducibility in Experimental and Computational Science, Piscataway, NJ, October 10, 2016.

Stephen Bosch, Justin Clark, Tina Feick, Kittie Henderson, Justin Holden, Gracemary Smulewitz, “Exclusively Serials:  The Art, the Business and Best Practices. ” Charleston Conference , Charleston, SC, November 2, 2016.

Tommy Doyle, Melissa Goertzen, Gracemary Smulewitz, Scott Warren, “Money Ball 2 – Where are we today?” Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC, November 4, 2016.

Recently published articles:

Katie Elson Anderson, “Getting acquainted with social networks and apps: picking up the Slack in communication and collaboration“, Library Hi Tech News 33(9) (2016), 6–9.

Michael Joseph, “‘Orphans of Poetry’: The poetry of childhood and the poetry for children of Robert Graves,” Book 2.0 6(1+2), 9–20.

Jane Johnson Otto, “A resonant message: aligning scholar values and open access objectives in OA policy outreach to faculty and graduate students,” Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 4. Accepted manuscript available at http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3HT2RMZ.

Megan Lotts, Leslin H. Charles, and Lily Todorinova, “A Survey of the Value of Library Employment to the Undergraduate Experience,” Journal of Library Administration 57(1), 2016.

Janet Brennan Croft, [Review of] Reading Joss Whedon by Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery, Mythlore 34(2), 218-220.

Zara Wilkinson, “To boldly grow up: navigating female adolescence in Star Trek and Lost in Space,” Science Fiction Film & Television, 9(3) (2016), 393-415.

Recently published books (including chapters):

Michael Joseph and Thomas, J. “Apologia” in Prizing Children’s Literature: The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards, edited by Kenneth B. Kidd and Joseph T. Thomas. London: Routledge (2016)

December 2016

Comings & Goings:

Nancy McMurrer will join the Libraries as Director of Development on December 5. She will report to Krisellen Maloney and to the associate vice president for major gifts at the Rutgers University Foundation. Her offices will be located in the central administrative suite located on the third floor of Alexander Library. Stop by and say hello when you have a chance!

Awards & Honors

Leslin H. Charles has been elected as the ACRL-NJ/NJLA-CUS Vice President 2016-2017.

Open Libraries by Judit Hajnal Ward, published in 2015 in Hungarian by Kalligram, was selected as a title to be included in the 6th cycle of the Márai Program in Hungary, named after writer and journalist Sándor Márai. Launched in 2011 by the National Cultural Fund of Hungary, the government initiative aims to promote reading by funding library acquisitions from a list of 400 selected titles annually.

Presentations/Talks/Posters

Katherine Anderson, “#CONNECTION: Audience participation in the performance art of LaBeouf, Rökkö & Turner,” Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Internet and Culture Panel, Atlantic City, NJ, November 5, 2016.

Zara Wilkinson, “A Laborious Issue: Part-time Employment and the Library Workforce,” ACRL MD/MILEX “Considering #CritLib: Inclusion and Diversity in Libraries” Conference, Columbia, MD, November 11, 2016.

Yini Zhu, “Teach and Tell: Access Services’ Frontline Role in Patron-centered Activities,” Access Services Conference, Unlocking the 21st Century Library, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 16 – 18, 2016.

Recently published articles:

Katherine Anderson, “Getting acquainted with social networks and apps: WhatsApp-ening with mobile instant messaging?” Library Hi Tech News, 33(6), 11-15, (2016).

Bonnie L. Fong, Minglu Wang, Krista White, Roberta Tipton, “Assessing and Serving the Workshop Needs of Graduate Students,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 44(5), September 2016.

Megan Lotts, “Floating castles, Legos, Candy, and Play: Counterplay 2016,” Library Hi Tech News 33(5): 18-20, (2016).

James P. Niessen, “A befogadás kultúrája és az 1957. Januári osztrák menekültkvóta-indítvány,” Világtörténet (Budapest) 6(38)(3): pp. 337-356. Hungarian translation. English original.

Yingting Zhang, “A Review of the New RefWorks,” Doody’s Collection Development Monthly, November 22, 2016.

November 2016

Awards & Honors

MLA-NY/NJ chapter had the result of its election and here are the list health sciences librarians who got positions:

Sarah Jewell – Board Member
Yingting Zhang – Treasurer Elect
Mina Ghajar – Secretary Elect
Pamela Hargwood, Contributed Posters Committee, MLA Tri-Chapter meeting in Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 25 – 28, 2016
Roberta Bronson Fitzpatrick, Contributed Papers Committee, MLA Tri-Chapter meeting in Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 25 – 28, 2016

Laura Palumbo has been elected the 2017 Chair-Elect of the Special Libraries Association’s Physics-Astronomy-Math (PAM) Division.

Presentations/Talks/Posters

Sarah Jewell, lightning talk, “Coordinating a Two-tiered Systematic Review Service Across Multiple Campuses,” MLA Tri-Chapter meeting in Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 25 – 28, 2016.

Michael Joseph, “‘Allie’ and the ‘Lost War,'” 13th International Robert Graves Society Conference, Oxford, Sept. 7 – 10, 2016. His paper will be published in a forthcoming special issue of The Lion and the Unicorn (Johns Hopkins University Press) devoted to children’s literature and World War One.

Yini Zhu, Mina Ghajar, and Ermira Mitre, “SHARE: Spreading Health Awareness with Resources and Education–Librarians’ leadership role in patient education,” MLA Tri-Chapter meeting in Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 25 – 28, 2016.

Yingting Zhang, Misa Mi. “Cultural Competence and Culturally Competent Library Service: A Survey of Health Sciences Librarians,” MLA Tri-Chapter meeting in Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 25 – 28, 2016. They received an award as 2nd Place for the research paper.

Yingting Zhang, Elizabeth Sosnowska, and Judy Cohn, “Engaging Health Sciences Faculty in Open Access,” MLA Tri-Chapter meeting in Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 25 – 28, 2016.

Recently published articles:

Katie Elson Anderson, “The Viral Lives of Children,” Child’s World America, 10/3/16.

Michael Joseph, book review of “Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War,” ed. by Lissa Paul, Rosemary Ross Johnston, Emma Short, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 41 (3) Fall 2016.

Jim Niessen, “Hungarian Refugees of 1956: From the Border to Austria, Camp Kilmer, and Elsewhere,” Hungarian Cultural Studies: e-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association 9 (2016): 122-136.

Caryn Radick, “Hunting Grounds,” “Fiction through an Archival Lens” column, Archival Outlook, September/October 2016.

Bob Vietrogoski, “Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences – Special Collections: A Reintroduction,” The Watermark (Newsletter of the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences), 39(4):10-12, 2016.

Lucille S. Eller, PhD, RN, Elise L. Lev, EdD, RN, Changrong Yuan, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Ann Vreeland Watkins, MSLS, D-AHIP, “Describing Self-Care Self-Efficacy: Definition, Measurement, Outcomes, and Implications,” International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, 0(0), 2016.

Yini Zhu, Mina Ghajar, and Ermira Mitre, “SHARE: Spreading Health Awareness with Resources and Education—Librarians’ Role in Patient Education, A Case Study“, Journal of Hospital Librarianship 16(4): 319-327, 2016.

October 2016

Awards & Honors

Judy Cohn, assistant vice president for information services and director of health sciences libraries, has been selected as a mentor in the 2016-2017 NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries.

Janet Brennan Croft, head of access and delivery services, was a guest of honor at the Mythgard Midatlantic Speculative Fiction Symposium (MidMoot) over the weekend of September 24-25, 2016. She presented her paper “The Name of the Ring: or, There and Back Again,” on the nature of evil and its association with naming and language in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.

Mei Ling Lo and Connie Wu were invited by Department Colloquium Committee of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to speak in their department Colloquium. The Colloquium is attended by many graduate students and they have a mix of local and visiting speakers throughout the year. Connie will talk about intellectual property and patent systems this semester and Mei Ling will present impact factor and citation analysis/search in Spring. In the letter from the Committee: “the students would be really interested to learn more about intellectual property and patent systems, as well as citation analysis.  They come in knowing very little and you are an expert!”

Yingting Zhang‘s research paper, “Cultural Competence and Culturally Competent Library Service: A Survey of Health Sciences Librarians,” was selected for 2nd Place at the Tri-Chapter Meeting.

Comings & Goings:

Chantél Harris joined Paul Robeson Library on September 15th as a library associate in access services. As the student coordinator she will be supervising our student workers as well as providing service at the circulation desk. She brings several years of experience in both academic and public libraries to our team. Chantél is a die-hard Eagles fan and an avid reader who loves to travel.

Aletia Morgan, research application designer in research and instructional services, has accepted a new position as the institutional data manager at the University of Delaware. Aletia’s last day in the office was September 23rd.

John Powell joined the library on September 19th as a librarian of practice who will be supporting the library’s extended reference hours and Sunday service hours.  John received his bachelor’s degree from Temple University (journalism major/poli-sci minor) and his M.S.L.S. from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a certificate in web design from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Prior to joining the Robeson team, John spent over 11 years working in various positions in the library at Peirce College, a non-profit institution that specializes in adult and non-traditional learners. Outside of the library world, John resides in South Philadelphia and enjoys taking long walks on Broad Street.

After 12 years of managing the serials acquisitions team in distributed technical services and being the coordinator for the department as well, Rebecca Sloat has taken a position with the Somerset Libraries System as the manager of technical services, overseeing acquisitions and cataloging. Rebecca’s last day was September 23, 2016.

Recently published articles:

Janet Brennan Croft, review of “Mentoring A-Z,” by Julie Todaro. Reference & User Services Quarterly 55(3), 2016.

Sharon K. Epps, Judith Kidd, Toni Negro & Sheridan L. Sayles, “Rethinking customer service training: A curricular solution to a familiar problem,” Journal of Access Services 13.3, 2016.

Presentations:

Leslin H. Charles and McFadden, Laurie J, “Embracing challenges in times of change: Academic librarians identify opportunities presented by the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in higher education,” 2016.

September 2016

Awards & Honors

The Library of Science and Medicine has received a 2016 Best of Piscataway Award.

Appointments & News:

Barbara L. Weldon joined the Libraries as our new director of human resources. Barbara, a HR specialist with more than fifteen years’ experience in municipal and higher education settings, will lead the day-to-day operations of our excellent human resources team. Her office is located in the Central Administration suite in Alexander Library.

Zara Wilkinson, who has served as the NJLA CUS/ACRL NJ job shadowing coordinator since 2012, accepted an expanded appointment as Job Shadowing Coordinator and MentorNJ Representative, which includes membership on the NJLA CUS/ACRL NJ Executive Board.

Ermira Mitre has worked as a Library Technician at Smith Library for about two years. She was also an ESL teacher prior to joining the libraries and likes to write poetry and short stories. She started writing as a teenager in her native language, Albanian, and now expresses her thoughts and feelings in verses and prose in both languages. She is a published poet in her country of origin, Albania. Most recently, Ermira guest blogged for the Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury blog, writing, “The Dream of an Earthquake.”

Ronald C. Jantz‘s book Managing Creativity: The Innovative Research Library is reviewed in Publications in Librarianship from the Association of College and Research Libraries. [Full PDF]

Grants:

Stephanie Mikitish is part of a team that won an ACRL grant to design, develop, and deliver a new ACRL “Action-Oriented Research Agenda on Library Contributions to Student Learning and Success.” Krisellen Maloney will be on the library advisory board for the project.

From the ACRL announcement:
“The agenda clearly will identify actions academic libraries can take now based on both existing scholarship and practice-based reports, and it will include 10-15 future-focused key inquiry questions that the literature and interview data suggest are essential for academic librarians to explore. In addition, the project will include an interactive visualization dashboard to help librarians understand and make use of existing literature for studies most relevant to their research interests….The team’s work began in early August 2016 and includes a presentation at the upcoming Library Assessment Conference as well as an online open forum in mid November to share progress with the broader community and solicit feedback. A final document of publishable quality, 60-100 pages in length, is due in May 2017 for public release in June. Read more about project deliverables and timeline in an excerpt of the successful proposal.

Recently published articles:

Bonnie L. Fong, “Assessing Graduate and Undergraduate Student Needs to Redesign a Chemistry Seminar Course,” Science & Technology Libraries 35(1): 70-90, 2016.

Megan Lotts, “On the Road, Playing with LEGO, and Learning about the Library: The Rutgers Art Library Lego Playing Station, Part Two,” Journal of Library Administration 56(5): 499-525, 2016.

Recent Presentations:

Laura Palumbo has been selected as a presenter for the ACRL Research Data Management Workshop Roadshows, “Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work“.

Caryn Radick chaired and moderated the session “Writing from the Heart: Romance Writers, Research, and Archives,” with speakers Piper Gian Huguley and Jennifer McQuiston, at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on August 6.

Zara Wilkinson, “Averting the Adjunct Crisis: A Critical Examination of Part-time Librarianship in the United States,” IFLA Marketing and Management Section Satellite Meeting. Toronto, Canada, August 10, 2016.

Karenjot Kaur, Agratta Sharma, Rob Huseby, Yingting Zhang, and Paul Lehrer, “Number of studies on heart rate variability, and biofeedback,” 2016 annual meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology (ISARP) in Seattle on October 9

August 2016

Awards & Honors

Matt Badessa has completed the Communicator’s Certificate Program offered by Rutgers Human Resources and University Communications and Marketing.

Grants:

Special Collections and University Archives has received two New Jersey Historical Commission grants for FY17: a General Operating Support grant in the amount of $95,230 and a project grant in the amount of $10,130 to digitize and microfilm the Rutgers War Services Bureau collection. (Caryn Radick is PI)

Special Collections and University Archives and Technical and Automated Services have received a National Digital Newspaper Program grant in the amount of $186,204 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. (Grace Agnew and Caryn Radick are co-PIs).

Recently published articles:

Katie Elson Anderson, “Getting acquainted with social networks and apps: Instagram’s instant appeal,” Library High Tech News 33(3). 2016.

Janet Brennan Croft, “Bibliographic Resources for Literature Searches on J.R.R Tolkien,” Journal of Tolkien Research 3(1), 2016

Bonnie L. Fong, Minglu Wang, Krista White, and Roberta Tipton, “Assessing and Serving the Workshop Needs of Graduate Students,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 2016.

Francesca Giannetti, “A Review of Network Approaches in Music Studies,” Music Reference Services Quarterly 19(2), 2016.

Ron Jantz, “Free Access Article Collection: Academic Librarianship and the Future,” guest editorial in New Review of Academic Librarianship. 2016.

Christine A. Lutz, “Cabin in the Pines: Albert Music Hall and Constructions of  a Pine Barrens Musical Tradition,” New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2(2), Summer 2016.

Christine A. Lutz, “Listening to the Local Beat: New Archive Documents New Brunswick Music Scene During Recent Decades,” Mid-Atlantic Archivist 45(3), Summer 2016.

Caryn Radick, “Rutgers’ 1870 Centennial Celebration and Other Charter-Related Puzzles,” Journal of Rutgers University Libraries, 68(1). 2016.

Caryn Radick, “The World Revealed,” Archival Outlook, “Fiction through an Archival Lens” column available at http://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?i=319673

Recent Presentations:

Caryn Radick, “Writing about History and Becoming Part of the Historical Record: Romance Writers’ Use of Archives and Archival Collections Documenting Popular Romance,” The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. June 23, 2016.

Yini Zhu, “SHARE the Info: Spread Health Awareness with Resources and Education, a NN/LM funded program”,  Lunch with the RML Webinar, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region. July 28, 2016.

July 2016

Awards & Honors

Tom Frusciano participated in the Congressional Reception in Honor of Rutgers 250 with a traveling exhibition (curated with Erika Gorder) at the Botanical Gardens, Washington, DC, April 19, 2016.

A poem of Michael Joseph‘s will be part of the Vispo Art Exhibition of poetry and art sponsored by the German state of Northrhine-Westphalia (NRW). The exhibition, scheduled for Spring 2017, will conclude in Burgau, in the famous water castle where Mademoiselle de Chartres/Madame de Clèves, beleaguered heroine of the 17-century French novel La Princesse de Clèves, attributed to Madame de La Fayette (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de La Fayette), briefly lived. The exhibition will conclude in a “festive event” and a symposium, at which he will participate in a panel discussion about art and literature and deliver a short lecture on fairy tales. The poem will be fabricated by an artist of his choosing (he assures he will select a New Jersey book artist, of course), and issued in a small edition (about 100 copies) by local printers. He plans to bring a copy back to Rutgers and donate it to Special Collections.

Nancy Kranich is a recipient of a 2016 Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) Roll of Honor Award. The Roll of Honor was established in 1987 to recognize and honor those individuals who have contributed substantially to FTRF through adherence to its principles and/or substantial monetary support. the announcement cites Kranich’s continued advocacy for “intellectual freedom, open access and privacy,” and describes her work to overturn the Children’s Internet Protection Act as “instrumental.” The complete citation is available on the ALA site.

Appointments & Retirements

Matt Badessa is now a full time publicity assistant in the communications department for Rutgers University Libraries. This position was previously classified as a temporary position, so we are delighted to make this change.

Vibiana Cvetkovic has been offered the Associate Editorship for Reference Reviews. Starting in August, she will be responsible for covering North American resources and reviewing.

Kayo Denda, head of the Margery Somers Foster Center and women’s studies librarian at Douglass Library has been promoted to Librarian I.

Erika Gorder is now Archivist, Librarian of Practice IV, with the Rutgers University Libraries. Reporting to University Archivist Tom Frusciano, Erika will be responsible for planning, organizing, and supervising the appraisal, collection management, arrangement, description, preservation, and research use of the historical collections in the University Archives of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Tara Kelley has been appointed Audiovisual Archivist for the Giddings underwater photography collection. Special Collections and University Archives will host a coffee hour welcome for Tara in the Case Room of the Alexander Library on Wednesday, July 6th between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Stop by and say “hi” in person.

Laura Bowering Mullen has been elected to the COAPI Steering Committee and selected from that group as Vice Chair for the coming year. She will chair COAPI the following year (2017-18).

Laura Palumbo is now a conference planner for the Research Data Access and Preservation Summit Planning Committee (RDAP) 2016, Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference, May 2016.

Laura Palumbo is the Physical Sciences and Engineering Editor for the e-Science Portal for New England Librarians, a National Library of Medicine funded project. http://esciencelibrary.umassmed.edu/

Tibor Purger was appointed to the Rutgers University IT Leadership Council, convened by Senior Vice President and CIO Michele Norin.

Jonathan Sauceda has been appointed Series Editor of Technical Reports and Monographs in Music Librarianship for the Music Library Association.

Julie Still, reference librarian and collection development coordinator at Robeson Library has been promoted to Librarian I.

Longtime circulation desk supervisor Joyce Watson retired from Dana Library on June 30 after 15 years of service. For more on Joyce and her post-retirement plans, please click here.

Yingting Zhang has been elected to serve as Secretary/Treasurer of the International Cooperation Section (ICS) of Medical Library Association.

Grants:

Bonnie L. Fong, Kinna Perry, Al Brown, Marne Benson, and Ann Watkins received a Chancellor’s Seed Grant, Rutgers University-Newark for their program “Boot Camps for Graduate Student Success.” Awarded $25,000.

Recently published books (including chapters):

Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Janifer Gatenby, Grace Agnew, et al., Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI, Dublin, OH: OCLC Research, 2016.

Recently published articles:

Donna M. Zucker, Jeungok Choi, Matthew N. Cook, and Janet Brennan Croft, “The Effects of Labyrinth Walking in an Academic Library,” Journal of Library Administration 2016 (2016): 1-17.

Bonnie L. Fong, “Assessing Graduate and Undergraduate Student Needs to Redesign a Chemistry Seminar Course,” Science & Technology Libraries 35.1 (2016): 70-90.

Laura Bowering Mullen and Jane Johnson Otto, “The Rutgers Open Access Policy: Implementation Planning for Success,” Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries Journal 4 (2015): 207-217.

Laura Bowering Mullen and David Ross, “Publishers and Institutional Repositories: Forging a Future that Facilitates Green Open Access,” Against the Grain 28.1 (2016):20-21.

Caryn Radick, “Romance Writers’ Use of Archives,” Archivaria. 81 (Spring 2016): 45-73.

Elizabeth Surles and Adriana P. Cuervo, “The Jazz Archives Fellowship: Professional Development and Diversity at the Institute of Jazz Studies,”.Journal of Archival Organization 12(3-4).

Krista White, “Calculating All that Jazz: Accurately Predicting Digital Storage Needs Utilizing Digitization Parameters for Analog Audio and Still Image Files,” Library Resources and Technical Services 60.2 (2016): 76-88.

Yingting Zhang and Yu-Hung Lin, “Writing a Wikipedia Article on Cultural Competence in Health Care,” Medical Reference Services Quarterly 35.2 (2016): 175-186.

Recent Presentations:

Grace Agnew, Yu-Hung Lin, and Chad M. Mills, “An Ocean of Data: a Metadata and DOI Strategy for Large, Dynamic Data about the World’s Oceans,” Coalition for Networked Information Spring Users’ Meeting, San Antonio, TX, April 5, 2016.

Isaiah Beard and Krista White, “Preserving Your Digital Life,” Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, April 28, 2016. Webinar.

Isaiah Beard, Yu-Hung Lin, Rhonda Marker, and Aletia Morgan, “Metadata in the College Library,” Rutgers Scholarly Communications & Information, Student College, Academic, and Research Libraries Association, New Brunswick, NJ, 3 February, 2016.

Janet Brennan Croft, “Barrel-rides and She-elves: Audience and ‘Anticipation’ in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Movies,” Ramapo College, March 9, 2016.

Margaret Rush Dreker and Roberta Bronson Fitzpatrick, “Adding More Tiles to the Mosaic: The Library and EBM in a Time of Curriculum Revision,” 2016 MLA Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. May 15, 2016.

Roberta Bronson Fitzpatrick, Leslin Charles, Ann Watkins, Zara Wilkinson, and Megan Lotts, “Counting the Colorful: The Events Assessment Task Force,” 2016 MLA Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. May 15, 2016.

Roberta Bronson Fitzpatrick, and Margaret Rush Dreker, “Introducing EBM Concepts to Academic Librarians: A New Model for Instruction,” 2016 MLA Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. May 15, 2016.

Tom Frusciano, “Rutgers through the Centuries: 250 Years of History,” Rutgers University Foundation All-Staff Meeting, February 22, 2016 (2 sessions).

Tom Frusciano, “Queen’s College–Child of the Awakening in Colonial New Jersey,” Eighth Annual Donald C. Clark Endowed Law and Religion Lecture, Rutgers University–Camden School of Law, March 24, 2016.

Tom Frusciano, “Rutgers at 250: Opening Remarks,” 30th Annual Louis Faugères Bishop III Lecture, Scholarly Communication Center, Alexander Library, Rutgers University, March 30, 2016.

Tom Frusciano, “Rutgers through the Centuries: 250 Years of History,” Rutgers Division of Continuous Studies Annual Meeting, Somerset, NJ, April 22, 2016.

Tom Frusciano, “Rutgers through the Centuries: 250 Years of History,” Rutgers School of Business, Department of Supply Chain Management, Rutgers Gardens, May 3, 2016.

Tom Frusciano, “Rutgers through the Centuries: 250 Years of History,” Rutgers New Student Orientation Leaders Training Session, Livingston Student Center, June 3, 2016.

Pamela Hargwood, “Librarian Participation in “Hands-On” Evidence-Based Medicine Rounds with Pediatric Residents,” 2016 MLA Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. May 15, 2016.

Nancy Kranich, “Community Engagement, with Tweets: A Twitter Chat with Nancy Kranich, former ALA President, Lecturer and Special Projects Librarian at Rutgers University,” Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS), April 21, 2016.

Nancy Kranich, “Turning Outward: Engaging Our Communities,” Keynote Speaker, U. of Hawaii SLIS Reaccreditation Celebration, Honolulu, HI, February 21, 2016.

Nancy Kranich, “Conscious Engagement for Every Library: Forming Stronger Bonds with our Unique Communities,” New Jersey Library Association, Atlantic City, NJ, May 17, 2016.

Megan Lotts, “Awesome Outreach by Academic Libraries,” New Jersey Library Association, Atlantic City, NJ, May 2016.

Megan Lotts, “Do It, Make It: Current Initiatives and Advice on Creating a Makerspace in Academic Libraries and Visual Resource Centers,” Art Libraries Society of North America. Seattle, WA, March 2016.

Megan Lotts, “Charmed, I’m Sure: Introducing New Users to Libraries and Visual Resources Collections,” Art Libraries Society of North America. Seattle, WA, March 2016.

Rhonda Marker, “Student Engagement with Digital Resources,” Online Exhibition Launch of Invisible Restraints: Life and Labor at Seabrook Farms, Rutgers Urban Studies, New Brunswick, NJ, April 20, 2016.

Rhonda Marker, Laura Bowering Mullen, and Jane Otto, “Institutional Repositories at Different Stages of Development,” METRO Science Librarians’ Special Interest Group Meeting, New York, NY, February 18, 2016.

Laura Bowering Mullen and Julia Gelfand, “Creating a Publishing Legacy: Managing your Digital Profile,” American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2016 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 12 February, 2016.

Laura Palumbo, “Data Management Plans and Best Practices,” American Society for Engineering Education, Engineering Research Council Annual Conference, Silver Spring, MD.

Jonathan Sauceda and Amelia Rodríguez. “Music Advisory Session,” New Jersey Library Association, Atlantic City, NJ, May 17, 2016.

Jonathan Sauceda, “Making Archives Come Alive: New Jersey’s Popular Music,” Jewish Community Center of Middlesex County, Edison, NJ, May 3, 2016.

Jonathan Sauceda, “Bridging Emerging and Established Approaches to Music Research,” University of North Texas Music Library 75th Anniversary Symposium, Denton, TX, April 22, 2016.

Jonathan Sauceda, “Bridging Emerging and Established Approaches to Music Research,” Society for American Music, Boston, MA, March 10, 2016.

Jonathan Sauceda, “Reference Tools Round-up: Naxos, Spotify, and YouTube,” Music Library Association, Cincinnati, OH, March 5, 2016.

Jonathan Sauceda, “Diversity in MLA,” Music Library Association, Cincinnati, OH, March 3, 2016.

Roberta Tipton, “Working with the Capstone: Changing Sources and Methods for Online Research,” Balancing Theory and Practice in Public Service Professionalism, 39th Annual Teaching Public Administration Conference, Newark, NJ, May 24, 2016.

Krista White, “From Cassette to Cloud: Reformatting Audiotape,” Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, 26 April, 2016. Webinar.

Misa Mi and Yingting Zhang, “Library Services and Cultural Competency in Health Professions Education and Patient Care,” 2016 MLA Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. May 15, 2016.

Misa Mi, Jie Li, Lin Wu, Wendy Wu, Yingting Zhang, “Reflective Practice for Professional Development through a Collaborative Systematic Review Project,” 2016 MLA Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. May 15, 2016.

Yini Zhu, “Teach and Tell: Access Services’ Role in the Big Picture,” 2016 MLA Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. May 15, 2016.

Yini Zhu, Mina Ghajar, and Ermira Mitre, “SHARE the Info: Spreading Health Awareness with Resources and Education: A National Network of Libraries of Medicine-Funded Program,” 2016 MLA Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada. May 15, 2016.

June 2016

Awards & Honors

Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic was part of a team that won a Chancellor’s Awarda for Staff Excellence in Service for their work on the Title IX Taskforce.

Janet Brennan Croft, Head of Access and Delivery Services, just celebrated her tenth anniversary as editor of the scholarly, peer-reviewed journal of the Mythopoeic Society (of which she is currently also chairperson). Issue 34.2 (#128, Spring/Summer 2016) of Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature was her twentieth as editor. Mythlore is available in two databases through the Rutgers catalog.

Caryn Radick debuted her new column, “Fiction through an Archival Lens” for Archival Outlook (the bimonthly magazine of the Society of American Archivists) on fiction and archives in the May/June issue.

Michael Joseph has been invited by the National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature to give the keynote to the year long NCSCL Children’s Literature Lecture Series, “Aesthetics in 20th & 21st Century Poetry for Children & Young Adults.” The talk will take place next spring at San Diego State University.

Appointments & Retirements

Consuella Askew was elected for a one year term as chair-elect for the Library Leadership & Management Association, Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation Section (renamed Assessment Section effective 7/1/2016).

Bonnie L. Fong was elected to serve a two-year term as Publicity Officer for the Science & Technology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Melissa Gasparotto served on the Rutgers University Center for Latin American Studies Small Grants Committee, which distributed competitive funding to undergraduates, graduate students and faculty in support of their Latin American Studies research projects.

Melissa Gasparotto was appointed Chair of the Resource Discovery Working Group and member of the Advisory Committee for the Center for Research Libraries’ Latin Americanist Research Resources Project.

Jim Niessen has been appointed as an External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Jane Otto was elected to the University Senate’s Executive Committee, representing Full-Time Faculty.  Natalie Borisovets was also elected to the Executive Committee, representing Newark’s Full-Time Faculty.

Caryn Radick has been appointed to the Society of American Archivists’ Committee on Public Awareness. This committee is charged with providing advice to the SAA Council to  enhance SAA’s capacity to promote the value of archives and archivists to institutions, communities, and society. It also works with SAA’s staff and outside counsel to develop programs that promote the value and role(s) of archivists and archives nationwide.

Zara Wilkinson began a one-year term as chair of the New Professionals Section of the Library Leadership and Management Association.

Recently published books (including chapters):

Sarah T. Jewell, current Information and Education Librarian at the George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences, recently published a chapter in Career Transitions for Librarians. The chapter is entitled “Nine Qualities to Cultivate across Your Entire Career,” in which she recommends developing qualities such as humility and positivity, while sharing her experiences of starting at The New York Public Library, transitioning to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Library, and finally, achieving her dream of working in an academic library in her current position at Rutgers.

Recently published articles:

Megan Lotts, “Landscape Architecture Students Play with Legos to Learn about the Library,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture AASL Column May 12, 2016.

Megan Lotts, “Building Bridges, Creating Partnerships, and Elevating the Arts: The Rutgers University Art Library Exhibition Spaces,” College and Research Libraries News. 77.5(May 2016): 226-230.

Megan Lotts, “Playing with LEGO, Learning about the Library and ‘Making’ Campus Connections: The Rutgers Art Library Lego Playing Station, Part One,” Journal of Library Administration Vol. 56, Iss.4 (Spring 2016).

Laura Palumbo, “Championing Institutional Goals: Academic Libraries Supporting Graduate Women in STEM,” Journal of Academic Librarianship. 42(3), 192-199.

Recent Presentations:

Melissa Gasparotto, “HathiTrust for Latin American Studies Research: Building and Mining Thematic Collections,” 61st Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Megan Lotts, “Awesome Outreach by Academic Libraries,” NJLA Annual Conference panel presentation, Atlantic City, New Jersey, May 2016.

Megan Lotts, “Playing with LEGO®, ‘Making’ Campus Connections, and Going Mobile,” Counterplay 2016, Aarhus, Denmark, April 2016.

As president of the American Hungarian Educator’s Association, Jim Niessen played a major role in their annual conference at the University of Maryland at the end of May. He gave a paper entitled “Opening the Door for Refugees: The Decision to Accept 56ers in Switzerland, Israel, Canada, and the US,” opened the conference, chaired a session, presented our association’s award at the banquet.

Zara Wilkinson, “All In This Together: Reaching Out and Building Relationships with Non-Academic Offices,” Personal Librarian and First-Year Experience Library Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, May 12, 2016.

May 2016

Awards & Honors

Congratulations to Nita Mukherjee who was nominated for Best Supervisor of the Year Award by Sara Hazaveh, SEBS’18! While Nita did not win the top award, it is notable that there were only 13 supervisors from across all the universities and the RBHS health division invited to the award luncheon.

More good news – Adriana Cuervo was appointed to the highly prestigious editorial board of The American Archivist, the peer-reviewed journal of the Society of American Archivists.

Appointments & Retirements

Katie Anderson, reference and instruction librarian at the Robeson Library, was promoted to Librarian II with tenure.

Manuel Jusino, our diversity intern, has accepted a full time professional librarian position at the U.S. Naval Academy. His last day in the Libraries will be May 3rd.

Recently published books (including chapters):

Joseph Deodato, “One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Tailoring Discovery Through User Testing.” Exploring Discovery: The Front Door to Your Library’s Licensed and Digitized Content. Ed. Kenneth J. Varnum. Chicago IL: ALA Editions, 2016. 183-199. (book chapter)

Mary Ann Koruth contributed the scholarly essay and content for a hardcover catalog of the paintings of George Oommen, titled “The Art of George Oommen”, an artist and architect based out of Boston.

Recently published articles:

Kayo Denda and Jennifer Hunter. 2016. “Building 21st-Century Skills and Creating Communities: A Team-based Engagement Framework for Student Employment in Academic Libraries.” Journal of Library Administration 56 (3) 251-265.

Recent Presentations:

Joseph Deodato, “Deciphering Discovery: Best Practices for Evaluating and Selecting Web-Scale Discovery Services.” Computers in Libraries, Washington D.C., March 8, 2016.

Joseph Deodato, “Taming Discovery: Collaboration, Customization, and User Testing.” Computers in Libraries, Washington D.C., March 9, 2016.

Gracemary Smulewitz, “Sabermetrics in the Library World”, Presentation at the Charleston Conference, November, 2015.

Cynthia Coulter and Gracemary Smulewitz, coordinators; “Fostering Research Success: Getting Published, Collaborating, and Winning Grants”, November 17, 2015, ACRLNJ Research Committee and Elsevier Publishing.

Gracemary Smulewitz and Elizabeth Sosnowska, “The E-book Ecosystem, how is it working?” VALE / NJ ACRL / NJLA CUS Seventeenth Annual Users’ Conference, January 2016.

April 2016

In Memoriam

Ellen Calhoun, the government and maps librarian at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, passed away on December 17, 2015. She was the beloved wife of Bob DeMartino, with whom she celebrated forty four years of happy marriage. She graduated from Douglass College and had strong ties to Rutgers University. We join with her colleagues and friends in celebrating her life and career.

Awards & Honors

Ron Becker received the Roger McDonough Librarianship Award in October 2015.

Janet Brennan Croft was elected chair of the Council of Stewards (board) of the Mythopoeic Society for 2016.

Melissa De Fino was appointed editor for “Tech Services on the Web,” a column in Technical Services Quarterly.

Kayo Denda won the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Women and Gender Studies Section (WGSS) Career Achievement Award.

Reading Publics: New York City’s Public Libraries, 1754-1911 by Tom Glynn has won the Hornblower Award for a First Book from the 2015-2016 New York Society Library’s New York City Book Awards. Reading Publics is also winner of the 2016 Herbert H. Lehman  Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York history from the New York Academy of History and has been named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice!

Michael Joseph was appointed editor of Gravesiana, the Journal of the Robert Graves Society.

The Byrne Seminar “Closing the Gap: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,” taught by Laura Palumbo and Connie Wu will be designated as a RU-1st course in the fall catalog. RU-1st is a new initiative, recently announced by Chancellor Richard Edwards, to make Rutgers more accessible and supportive for students who are first in their family to attend college. RU-1st includes high-impact programming and identifying school-based resources for first-generation, and/or underrepresented students that ease the transition to college, and ultimately assist with student retention and graduation.

Elizabeth Surles has been charged to co-lead a task force for the Music Library Association’s Archives and Special Collections Committee to develop best practice guidelines for describing archival music materials according to Describing Archives: A Content Standard.

Judit Ward served as the special editor for an issue of the Hungarian library journal Könyv, könyvtár, könyvtáros [Books, libraries, librarians] centered around the librarian’s role in the academic infrastructure. The issue also featured an article by William Bejarano.

Zara Wilkinson received an IFLA 2016 National Committee Fellowship Grant, which includes $1000 to offset the costs of attending the 2016 IFLA World Congress in Columbus, Ohio.

Yingting Zhang received a research Award of $1,000 from NY-NJ Chapter of Medical Librarian Association at its 2015 annual meeting on October 15, 2015 in New York Institute of Technology for the research study on “Library Services and Cultural Competence in Health Professions Education and Patient Care”. The study results will be presented in a poster at 2016 Medical Library Association Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada.

Appointments & Retirements

Ricardo “Ricky” Camposagrado joined the RBHS Libraries as a program support specialist on February 22nd. Ricky comes to the Libraries having worked at New Jersey Medical School in various financial capacities in the departments of orthopedics and neuroscience. Prior to that, he was an analyst in grants and contracts. Ricky also worked part-time at the Smith Library during his college years. Welcome back to the Libraries!

Business librarian and information literacy coordinator Theodora Haynes is retiring from Paul Robeson Library after more than four decades of service.

Kerry O’Rourke, director of the Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences, is retiring from her position at the Rutgers University Libraries effective April 1st. She successfully integrated the teaching of strong searching skills and evidence based practice into the RWJMS curriculum, and launched numerous new programs including DR MERL (Dependable Reviews of Medical Education Research Literature). Kerry launched her career at then St Peter’s Medical Center and spent the next 30 years at RWJ advancing the library’s role in support of medical education, research, and improved patient care. Kerry is a distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals and is the only librarian to have been voted into the RBHS Master Educator’s Guild.

After 18 years of devoted service to the health sciences libraries, Susan Tran, principal management assistant, retired on March 1, 2016.

Recently published books (including chapters):

Janet Brennan Croft, ed. Baptism of Fire: The Birth of the Modern British Fantastic in World War I. Altadena CA: Mythopoeic Press, 2015.

Janet Brennan Croft, “The Vampire Family Plot: Naming, Siring, and Identity.” Chapter in After the Avengers: From Joss Whedon’s Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse. Ed. Valerie Estelle Frankel. PopMatters Media, 2015. (e-book). (book chapter).

Ron Jantz, Managing Creativity: The Innovative Research Library, ACRL, April 2016.

James P. Niessen, “Catholic Monasticism, Orders, and Societies in Hungary: Centuries of Expansion, Disaster, and Revival.” Monasticism in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics. Ed. Ines Angeli Murzaku. New York: Routledge, 2016. 86-109. Print. (book chapter).

Nancy-Lou Patterson, Ransoming the Waste Land: Papers on C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia, and Other Works. Eds. Emily A. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft. 2 vols. Valleyhome Books, 2015.

Judit Ward, Open Libraries (Nyitott könyvtár, in Hungarian). Hungary, Kalligram, 2015.

Recently published articles:

Janet Brennan Croft, “Noms de Guerre: The Power of Naming in War and Conflict in Middle-earth,” Mythlore, 34.1 (#127) (Fall/Winter 2015): 105-115.

Adriana P. Cuervo, “The Things We Keep: Considerations for Appraisal of Archival Materials in Music Libraries,” Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, 72.2 (Dec. 2015): 265-275.

Joseph Deodato, “Evaluating Web-Scale Discovery Services: A Step-by-Step Guide,” Information Technology & Libraries, 34.2 (2015): 19-75.

Megan Lotts, “Playing with LEGO, Learning about the Library and ‘Making’ Campus Connections, Part One,” Journal of Library Administration, Vol. 56, Iss. 4 (Spring 2016).

Jan H. Kemp, Carolyn L. Ellis, & Krisellen Maloney, “Standing By to Help: Transforming Online Reference with a Proactive Chat System,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 41 (6), 764-770.

Krisellen Maloney & Jan H. Kemp, “Changes in Reference Question Complexity Following the Implementation of a Proactive Chat System: Implications for Practice,” College & Research Libraries, 76(7), 959-974.

Laura B. Palumbo, Ron Jantz, Yu-Hung Lin, Aletia Morgan, Minglu Wang, Krista White, Ryan Womack, Yingting Zhang, and Yini Zhu, “Preparing to Accept Research Data: Creating Guidelines for Librarians,” Journal of eScience Librarianship, 4.2 (2015): e1080.

Misa Mi, Wendy Wu, Maylene Qiu, Yingting Zhang, Lin Wu, and Li Jie, “Use of Mobile Devices to Access Resources among Health Professions Students: A Systematic Review,” Medical References Services Quarterly, 35.1 (2016): 1-20.

Elizabeth Surles, “Exploring Collective Access at the American Alpine Club Library,” Practical Technology for Archives, no. 5 (2015).

Ryan P. Womack, “Research Data in Core Journals in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics,” PloS ONE, 10.12 (2015): e0143460.

Zara Wilkinson, “A Review of Advertisements for Part-Time Library Positions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey,” Library Management 37, no. 1/2 (2016).

Recent Presentations:

Adriana P. Cuervo, “Leading in Scholarship: Developing a Research Agenda in 21st Century Academic Librarianship” at the 2016 Association of Research Libraries Annual Leadership Forum, Boston, MA, January 8, 2016.

Adriana P. Cuervo, “The Best of the Past, Present, and Future: Community Engagement In (& Out of) the Archives” Paper titled “The Newark Citizen Historian Initiative: A Unique Opportunity for University-Community Collaboration,” 21st Annual Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Conference, Omaha, NE, October 13, 2015.

Nancy Kranich, “Cornerstones of Democracy: Libraries, Intellectual Freedom and Privacy,” Rhode Island State Library, Providence, RI, November 11, 2015.

Nancy Kranich, “Libraries as Anchor Institutions,” Presentation at the International Conference on the Digital Divide, Phoenix, AZ, October 21, 2015.

Nancy Kranich, “Reclaiming the Commons: Countering Enclosure of our Archival Heritage,” Archival Seminar, Madrid Spain, December 11, 2015.

Yu-Hung Lin and Juliane Schneider, (2015, October 7). “Developing Metadata for Long-Term Preservation, Enhanced Discovery, and Access of Digital Objects,” [Webinar]. In Special Libraries Association Technical Services Section/IT Division webinar series.

James P. Niessen, “Hungarian Refugees of 1956: From the Austrian Border to Camp Kilmer,” Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies, 47th Annual Convention, November 2015, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Unpublished conference paper, 2015.

Kerry O’Rourke, Sarang Kim, Laura Willett, Lee Ann Schein, Dana Herrigel, & James Galt, “Disseminating Medical Education Research Literature to Medical School Faculty,” 2015 AAMC Medical Education Meeting, Baltimore, MD. November 11, 2015. Innovations Oral Abstract.

Janice T. Pilch, “Intellectual Property in the Digital Age: Archival Sound Recordings,” New York University Music Department. New York University, New York, NY. 10 December 2015. Guest Lecture.

Janice T. Pilch, “The Politics of Copyright: Fact v Fiction,” 47th Annual Convention of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, PA. 19 November 2015. Conference Presentation.

Elizabeth Surles, “DACS and Archival Music Collections: A Crash Course for Music Librarians,” Paper presented at the Music Library Association Annual Meeting. March 5, 2016.

Bob Vietrogoski, “‘Agitation of the Question’: James McCune Smith’s Nomination for Fellowship to the New York Academy of Medicine, 1847,” at the New York Academy of Medicine’s Sixth Annual History Night. He presented an archival narrative of the Academy’s rejection of the nomination for fellowship of pioneering African-American physician and activist James McCune Smith (1813-1865), March 9, 2016.

Bob Vietrogoski, “How New Jersey’s Governors Created the State’s Medical Education System,” an overview of the history of medical education in New Jersey, to the Bergen County Historical Society at the Steuben House in River Edge, NJ, March 17, 2016.

Connie Wu, “Publishers’ Role in Research Collaboration,” Invited talk at School of Information Management, Nanjing University, November 17, 2015.

Connie Wu, “Basics of Intellectual Property Rights in U.S,” Invited talk at the Library of Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, Shanghai China, November 13, 2015.

Yingting Zhang, Judith Cohn, Laura Bowering Mullen, Matt Badessa, Jackie Mardikian, Aletia Morgan, and Elizabeth Sosnowska, “Symposium on Open Access: Perspectives in Biomedical and Health Sciences.” Poster presented at 2016 VALE / NJ ACRL/NJLA CUS Users’ Conference, 15 Jan. (2016).

March 2016

In Memoriam

Please join us to celebrate the life of Ellen Calhoun, former government documents librarian.

Date: March 16, 2016 (Wed)
Time: 2 pm to 3 pm
Place: Library of Science and Medicine (Conference Room)

If you plan to attend the service, please reply by filling out this following form at your earliest convenience.  We will send out parking permits to non-Rutgers employees.

Appointments & Retirements

Gary Golden, director of Paul Robeson Library, announced that he will retire on June 30, 2016. Gary started working at Rutgers in June of 1986, shepherding the Camden Library through many transitions—new technology; new building; a new name as the Paul Robeson Library; and, most recently, a $3 million dollar, four-year renovation that completed in 2015. Throughout these changes, Gary has maintained a steadfast eye on the student user experience, made smart financial and technological decisions, and created links to the Camden community. While this will, no doubt, be a loss for the Libraries, we wish him all the best in this next chapter and salute his many accomplishments on behalf of Rutgers University Libraries.

Awards & Honors

Kayo Denda is the recipient of the 2016 Career Achievement Award from the Women and Gender Studies Section of the ACRL. Kayo will be presented with the award at the WGSS program on Monday June 27^th.

Calls for Papers

IFLA Social Sciences Libraries Section with Asia and Oceania Section issued a call for papers on User Experience (UX) and Social Science Libraries in the Digital Age. Proposals should be submitted electronically to Kayo Denda (kdenda@rutgers.edu) no later than March 1, 2016 and indicate ‘IFLA proposal’ in the subject line.

February 2016

Appointments & Retirements

Lila Fredenburg announced her upcoming retirement, scheduled for February 25, 2016. As we know, working in the Libraries is equal parts labor and passion and Lila has excelled in both throughout her career. In her role as executive director of administration, Lila is intrinsic to the day-to-day operations of the Libraries and, as a member of the cabinet and numerous other taskforces and committees, to our long-term strategic planning and development. Some highlights of her Rutgers career include converting the A&P process to online, developing diversity programs and search committee training, and serving on the University’s Compensation Committee and the Committee to Advance Our Common Purpose. Lila’s retirement is our loss in many ways, but will no doubt be a well-deserved respite and opportunity to spend more time with family and friends and in pursuit of her personal interests.

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