A drawing by Megan Lotts, art librarian, is featured on the cover of College & Research Libraries News. Her sketch captures the energy of the 2025 American Library Association Annual Conference in Philadelphia, where conversations around intellectual freedom and digital equity took center stage. (The 2026 ALA Annual Conference will be held June 25–29 in Chicago.)
Bart Everts, reference and instruction librarian at Robeson Library, was quoted in The Gleaner (Rutgers University–Camden’s student newspaper) about the value of the annual Rutgers–Camden Graduate Student Organization hike in Wissahickon Valley Park. “There are countless studies simply on the mental health value of walking, but I think getting out into nature, away from cars and other stressors, not just the stresses of school but of 21st-century life, is vital to our well-being, at least it certainly is to mine,” Everts said. He added that the library’s stressbuster initiatives, including therapy dogs and the Zen Den, complement GSO’s efforts. “Alwin and the GSO have done such a great job with events like this hike, not simply as a way to get away from schoolwork, but also to bond a group of students who come from such a diversity of backgrounds, countries, cultures, and experiences.”