Bart Everts, reference and instruction librarian at Paul Robeson Library, joined a panel discussion with Charlene Mires and Howard Gillette, editors of the Greater Philadelphia book series by Penn Press, for a discussion on New Jersey’s place in Greater Philadelphia’s history. The talk was held on February 11 at the historic Cooper Library building at Rutgers-Camden.
Caryn Radick, digital strategies librarian, authored the article “‘If Ever Two Women Deserved What They Got’: The Kate Stocker Murder as Reported in the Jersey City News,” which was published in the summer 2025 issue of New Jersey Studies.
Li Sun, continuing resources and Asian languages catalog librarian, authored an article in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly that is listed among the publication’s top most read articles of 2025. “Enhancing cataloging with generative AI: Converting Wade-Giles to Pinyin,” published in June 2025 (Volume 63, Number 4, 2025), had reached 449 views, 1 CrossRef citation, and 2 Altmetric items as of February 2026.
Mary Beth Weber, coordinator for training and mentorship, was an invited speaker at a webinar provided by the American Library Association’s Core Leadership Development and Mentoring Committee on February 12 on formal and informal peer mentoring experiences for leadership and management across all types of libraries. The three-person panel discussed how they used peer mentoring programs to connect with colleagues in similar roles, and how they gained access to tacit knowledge in their institutions through peer mentoring.
Sonia Yaco, emerging technologies librarian, coauthored “What Can AI Do for Special Collections?” which was published in January in The American Archivist. For the front cover, the publication used a collage of images from the William Elliot Griffis Collection at Rutgers University Libraries. In addition, on January 14, Yaco gave a talk at The Old Guard of Princeton on “Using AI to Find Insights in Historic Manuscripts.”
Elizabeth York, electronic resources and interim discovery librarian, gave a presentation, “Enabling (and Disabling) AI features in Library E-Resources” at the New Jersey Academic Librarians AI Special Interest Group virtual meeting in December 2025.
