November 2018

Colleagues gather to congratulate Janie Fultz at her retirement party.
The Math/Physics Library hosted its annual candy guessing game in October. Credit: L. M. Miller.
New mobile device charging stations have been installed at the Smith and Robert Wood Johnson Libraries. Credit: Corisa Mobley.
Yuhwei Ling cuts the cake at his going away party.
Beautiful new steps have been installed in front of Robeson Library. Credit: John Powell.
Matt Bridgeman leads a workshop for dental hygienist students from Middlesex County College at Robert Wood Johnson Library.
Regina Koury leads a book talk for the School of Nursing at Rutgers–Camden. Credit: @RUCamdenNursing on Twitter.
Constructing an archival box for a bound manuscript in the preservation lab. Instagram commenters noted the book’s likeness to a chocolate cake! Credit: Tim Corlis.
The “Reading Pictures” exhibit at the Art Library featured graphic novels from our collections. Credit: Megan Lotts.
Tracey Meyer (l.) and Yuhwei Ling (r.) join Mary Ann Koruth (c.) at her going away party. Credit: Tracey Meyer.

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN REPORT
	Reflections on Open Science by Design and its implications for the Libraries. More>>
FROM CABINET
	A reminder from Libraries HR about the Rutgers Environmental Health and Safety Accident Database. More>>
	Service animals and the library: what do you need to know? More>>
FEATURES
	Update from the Ex Libris Implementation Team for November. More>>
	Isaiah Beard reports on a recent meeting at the Library of Congress about designing storage architectures for digital collections. More>>
	Megan Lotts and Mei Ling Lo report on their Rutgers University Libraries Ninja Warriors outreach program. More>>
	A look at the Agenda from November 1998. More>>
HAPPENINGS
	What’s happening around Rutgers in November. More>>
	Quick takes on events and news from the Libraries this month. More>>

TRENDING – news from other Libraries’ blogs

Who needs an intro when I can simply say one word: Lesbian. Yes, I said it. This is about Rue Watson, a lesbian student who graduated Douglass College in 1977. Her experience at Douglass from the point of view of a lesbian student is important and critical to the identity development of the modern day lesbian students at Rutgers.

Margery Somers Foster Center

Hold your horses! The year is 1852, and even though movable type was invented in 1440, the linograph won’t be invented until 1884. You know what that means? Yup, every single page of the newspaper is being laid out letter-by-letter, piece-by-piece, and all by hand.

Welcome to the inaugural post in our series on 19th and early 20th century typesetting. Here you will be given a window into the lives of the people who helped put ink to paper.

New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project

November 11, 2018 is Veterans Day and marks the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War I. To commemorate this centennial, What Exit? will be featuring letters from Special Collections and University Archives’ Records of the Rutgers College War Service Bureau. This collection features letters from Rutgers students and alumni who served in the First World War, describing their experiences serving in the United States and overseas.

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