PTRC at LSM Co-sponsored a Successful Zoom Event at the University On December 1, 2020, a one-of-a-kind webinar took place on Zoom. The webinar, titled “The Future of American Innovation & the Role of the University,” a talk by the… Continue Reading
Updates to Rutgers Editorial Style Guide University Communications and Marketing has developed and maintains the Rutgers Editorial Style Guide as a tool for communicators at the university. Approximately once a year, the guide is revised to keep it current with… Continue Reading
Bishop Lecture Returns The 34th annual Bishop Lecture will feature photographer and author Barbara Mensch, who will speak about how she was inspired by Special Collections and University Archives’ Roebling Collection to create her recent book In the Shadow of Genius: The… Continue Reading
Targum Documentary Spotlights NBMSA Islamic Art Wiki-a-Thon Returns to Dana Library Dana Library hosted its second Islamic Art Wiki-a-Thon last semester. Professor Alex Seggerman’s Islamic Architecture course was one of a group of classes participating in the December 9 Islamic Art Wiki-a-Thon. Students spent… Continue Reading
SWPACA Call for Papers Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 41st annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference! One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple… Continue Reading
Poet Takes Her Show on the Road In June, Smith Library library technician Ermira Mitre was invited to give a book talk and signing for Soul’s Gravity, her recently published book of Albanian poetry, for students in the Department of… Continue Reading
An Important Message for Faculty and Staff from the Center on Violence against Women and Children Better Late than Never? Stephanie Bartz reports on an amusing development: “We recently received a piece of mail for Donald F. Cameron. In case… Continue Reading
Talking Vocational Awe at ACRL Congratulations to Fobazi Ettarth, who was one of the invited presentations at the annual ACRL conference in Cleveland, Ohio last month. Fobazi’s talk was titled “Becoming a ‘Bad Librarian’: Dismantling Vocational Awe in Librarianship” and… Continue Reading
Did You Know? Did you know that Ermira Mitre, library technician at Smith Library, is an accomplished writer, poet, and translator—both in the States and in her home country of Albania? Viktor Canosinaj’s The King’s Shadow, which Ermira translated from… Continue Reading
Talking Gennett Records Congratulations to Elizabeth Surles, who was recently interviewed for The Music Makers of Gennett Records, a documentary for WTIU, Indiana Public Television. The Institute of Jazz Studies also provided photographs and archival materials for the film. You… Continue Reading