MARAC Names NBMSA Innovative Archives
The New Brunswick Music Scene Archive has been awarded MARAC NJ’s Innovative Archives Award for 2018. Photo credit: NBMSA on Facebook.
The New Brunswick Music Scene Archive has been awarded the 2018 Innovative Archives Award from the MARAC NJ Caucus.
The award is given to an organization that has provided exemplary leadership or service to the archival community and residents of the state. It may also honor a local, county, or regional organization, either for long-term leadership or service, or for outstanding effort demonstrated in a given year. Nominees may have developed innovative educational or outreach models utilizing archival sources, provided leadership during a time of emergency or crisis, demonstrated new thinking in finding a solution to an issue or problem, or exhibited creativity in increasing awareness of local history resources among New Jersey residents and visitors.
The official presentation of the award will take place at Monmouth County Archives and History Day on October 13. Congratulations to Christie Lutz and Tara Maharjan in Special Collections and University Archives for this recognition of their tremendous work!
BTAA Cooperative Cataloging Partnership Receives ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Award
Rutgers was among the institutions recognized by the ALCTS’s 2018 Outstanding Collaboration Citation.
The Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Cooperative Cataloging Partnership was awarded the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services’ (ALCTS) Outstanding Collaboration Citation for 2018.
This award recognizes and encourages collaborative problem-solving efforts in the areas of acquisition, access, management, preservation, or archiving of library materials. It recognizes a demonstrated benefit from actions, services or products that improve and benefit providing and managing library collections. It was presented at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony at the ALA conference in June.
Congratulations are in order for our colleagues from Central Technical Services who comprised the Rutgers team: Colin Bitter, Roman Frackowski, Kati Ritter, Catherine Sauceda, and Mary Beth Weber. Rutgers both provided cataloging (Roman and Kati for foreign languages and Catherine for musical scores) and took advantage of the program to eliminate a backlog of titles in Arabic and other foreign languages.
NJEDL Spotlights Outdoorsy Summer Getaways
Whitesbog Village. Photo credit: Peter Miller on flickr.
Looking for the perfect summer day trip? Look no farther than the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library’s spotlights column. This area highlights activities around the state mostly having to do with the outdoors or the environment. Forthcoming events include:
- 100th Annual Mercer County 4-H Fair, July 28–29
- Bio Blitz at Whitesbog Village, July 28–29
- Making Bark Collection Containers and Berry Harvesting, August 8
- Star Gazing with Morris Museum Astronomical Society, August 18
Learn more on the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library homepage.
