May 2017

Wednesday Wisdom campaign takes a fun turn when the students take over the quote board at the Library of Science and Medicine.
Director Fritch Clark fields questions about his film The Last Bastions of Rock at an event sponsored by the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive at Alexander Library on April 27. Photo: Christie Lutz.
Jeanne Boyle presented Anjanette Vaidya with the award for Best Research Effort for her paper “Treatise For My Mamas: On Young Mothers, Higher Education, and the ‘Myth of Lost Opportunity'” at the Undergraduate Research Writing Conference.
Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum for African American History and Culture, visited the Express Newark Gallery at Rutgers-Newark on March 31st. He looks on while Angela Lawrence, processing archivist at the Institute of Jazz Studies, discusses an object on display at the exhibit Records at Play: the Institute of Jazz Studies @50.
Dana Library welcomes Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow, to speak at a Big Read Essex County event for administrative professionals.
The Art Library hosted an opening reception for a Landscape Student Architecture exhibit focused on a master plan for the Bergen County Parks System. Photo: Megan Lotts.
As part of the Big Read program, Dana Library hosted a Politics of Hair event and film screening, including a hair care demo.

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN REPORT
	The outcome of our budget reason is a shining example of what happens when we work together and with purpose. More>>
FROM CABINET
	A Framework for Change provides the Dana Library’s road map to becoming a user-centered library in the 21st century. More>>
FEATURES
	Give a cheer for these RUL colleagues who are celebrating a milestone anniversary this year! More>>
	Rutgers Connect Tips and Tricks – How to create a calendar appointment from an email message More>>
	Read an excerpt of “Forgotten Heroes: New Jerseyans and Rutgers Alumni During the Great War” from Flora Boros at What Exit? More>>
	Ron Jantz describes the work that went into making the Kopp Dataset available in RUcore. More>>
	Roberta Fitzpatrick takes us on a deep dive into JAMAevidence. More>>
HAPPENINGS
	Couldn’t make it to all our Rutgers Day locations? Check out the sights in this photo slide show. More>>
	Bob Vietrogoski reports, on behalf of the LAC for MARAC-Newark, on the activities and presentations at the conference. More>>
	Quick takes on events and news from the Libraries this month. More>>

JUST FOR FUN

Ten songs about libraries and librarians from the New York Public Library.	From 2013, but still very good. Want to make posters like these?	What is our policy on spaghetti in the library again?

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