Maria Deptula, health sciences collections librarian at Smith Library, published a featured article in Doody’s Core Titles: “Weeding with Care: A Renovation-Driven Weeding Project in the Health Sciences Library with a Focus on the Last Institutional Copies” (January 2025).
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.
Ermira Mitre, a library technician at Smith Library, had her poem “Under the Rhythm of Jazz” quoted in an article on BahaiTeachings.org. The poem also inspired the title of Robert Battle’s dance piece, Under the Rhythm, and the poem was read a performance of the dance during Gala Night at Paul Taylor Dance in New York in November. In addition, Mitre had five of her poems and a short story published in the Canada-based Asemana Magazine.
Tony Nguyen, Associate University Librarian, Rutgers Health, coauthored The Librarian’s Grants Handbook: Understanding the Grant Process from Start to Finish (Bloomsbury Publishing, February 2026).
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.
