National Library Week
| April 10 – 16, 2016 |  The theme of this year’s National Library Week is “Libraries Transform.” You can read up on National Library Week here: http://www.ala.org/news/mediapresscenter/factsheets/nationallibraryweek. |
Student Employment Week
| April 10 – 16, 2016 |  The Student Coordinator Group is putting the finishing touches on their plans to celebrate and thank our student workers. Each unit will have different activities throughout the week and we will host a spotlight series showcasing a different student worker across the system each day as a news story. Look for more information on this soon. |
“The Elusiveness of Progress: Voting Rights in America” exhibit at Kilmer Library
| Ends August 31, 2016 |  The Elusiveness of Progress: Voting Rights in America is on display at Kilmer Library, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, now through the end of August. The exhibit is free and open to the public. |
Like Jazz Women’s History Month Film Festival in Newark
| March 29 – April 7, 2016 |  Dana Library and the Institute of Jazz Studies are partnering with Women In Media – Newark n their 2016 Women’s History Month Film Festival.
April 5 at 5 p.m.: Dana Library will host the screenings of Airgirl and The Unforgettable Hampton Family (with Dawn Hampton making a special appearance at the screening). April 6 at 5 p.m.: Dana Library will show An Educated Woman and Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band. For a complete schedule of films please visit their website: http://wim-n.com/film-festival-2016/ |
TFAP@TEN exhibit at Douglass Library
| Ends April 8, 2016 |
 Detail from Apiphobia (2011) by Anonda Bell. Mixed media installation. Dimensions variable. TFAP@TEN, a group exhibition honoring the 10th anniversary of The Feminist Art Project (TFAP), is on display through April 8 in the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries at Douglass Library. |
Women and Creativity House Student Exhibitions
| April 20 – May 2, 2016 |
 Sarah Ferreira, After Jill Magid, Muse Portrait, 2014, digital photograph, 14 x 11″. Women and Creativity House Student Exhibitions will feature the work of Sarah Ferreira, CWAH intern and Stacy Scibelli, learning community coordinator. The annual Women and Creativity House Student Exhibition is sponsored by Douglass Residential College and the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, a unit of the Office of the Senior VP for Academic Affairs. The exhibition is part of the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, a program of the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities in partnership with Rutgers University Libraries, and is the oldest continuous running exhibition space in the United States dedicated to making visible the work of emerging and established contemporary women artists. |
Twenty years later, Jim Niessen will revisit Historians and the Internet
| Twenty years ago, near the beginning of his career as a librarian, world history librarian Jim Niessen was invited to contribute to a discussion about the Internet on the pages of the Debrecen journal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and his essay on “Historians and the Internet” appeared here (in Hungarian): http://w3.atomki.hu/debrecen/debszem/96_2/niessen.html . The contributors will now be providing updates to their remarks, and Jim has promised us a recap of his new essay for our next issue. |
Preservation Week
| April 24 – April 30, 2016 |  Rutgers University librarians are participating in events to celebrate Preservation Week, which is an initiative of ALA ALCTS-PARS:
“From Cassette to Cloud: Reformatting Audiotapes,” by Krista White on April 26 from 2 – 3 p.m. Learn how to evaluate audio formats and the technical details of digitizing them in this one hour webinar. “Preserving Your Digital Life,” by Krista White and Isaiah Beard on April 28 from 2 – 3 p.m. Learn how to develop and implement a plan for preserving your digital life so that friends and family can enjoy your memories far into the future. Both of these webinars are designed by ALCTS to be suitable for a lay audience. The official description of the webinars and more information is at the ALA/ ALCTS-PARS Preservation Week site here: http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/preswk/alctsevents |
“Cherry Blossoms in Spring” exhibit at Dana Library
| April 14 – June 30, 2016 |  Dana Library is hosting “Cherry Blossoms in Spring,” an installation by artist Karen Guancione, in the Gallery from April 14 through June 30. An opening reception will take place on Thursday, April 14, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Library’s Dana Room and an accompanying program on the history of cherry trees in the Garden State featuring horticulturist Anthony S. Aiello will take place on Thursday, April 21, at 3 p.m. in the Dana Room. Read up on these events here. |
New digital exhibition: “Invisible Restraints: Life and Labor at Seabrook Farms”
| April 20, 2016 |  The online exhibition, “Invisible Restraints: Life and Labor at Seabrook Farms,” which will be hosted by the New Jersey Digital Highway, will officially launch this month. The opening event will be held Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 4 p.m. in the Teleconference Lecture Hall at Alexander Library. For more on this unique collaboration, read our news story. |
Digital Humanities Initiative workshop
| April 6, 2016 |
 Engraving from “The laws of art and nature…” (1683) by Lazarus Ercker. Image credit: Wellcome Library, London. Rutgers’ Digital Humanities Initiative and the Libraries will host a Digital Lab Series of five workshops throughout the spring semester at the Alexander Library, Rutgers University–New Brunswick. This lab will introduce the basic building blocks of the web: HTML and CSS. Introduction to Web Development with HTML and CSS |
SAPAC brown bag presentation, “A Citation Analysis of English Dissertations at Rutgers University”
| April 6, 2016 | 
The Scholarly and Professional Activities Committee invites you to a brown bag presentation on Wednesday, April 6, at noon, in the Pane Room, Alexander Library, with video-conferencing to the Dana (Dana Administrative Conference Room) and Robeson (290). A Citation Analysis of English Dissertations at Rutgers University |
TeachMeet, “See One, Do One, Teach One”
| April 6, 2016 | The Instructional Community of Practice (ICOP) and the Instruction and Information Literacy Team (NB) invite you to a TeachMeet being presented by our RBHS colleagues, Roberta FitzPatrick and Peggy Dreker.
See One, Do One, Teach One Students at the New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) and the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine (RSDM) attend an instructional session which covers some basic searching and evidence-based medicine/dentistry concepts, as well as information about writing a CAT (Critically Appraised Topic). They learn how to write a searchable question and how to break that question into concepts, called the PICO format, which helps them to generate search terminology. Students use the information taught in the session to write their own CAT, then teach from that CAT in their subsequent small group sessions. The scholarship and research skills demonstrated by their finished CAT are graded by the preceptor. Hear how this approach to assessment can be adopted in your own discipline/instruction sessions. |
