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Quick Takes on Events and News – November 2018

Award-Winning Oral Historian to Speak at Clement’s Place

Patricia Willard, recipient of the 2018 Jazz Journalists Association Lifetime Achievement Award, will talk about her experiences working on the Institute of Jazz Studies Jazz Oral History Project collection and other jazz oral histories on Monday, November 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Clement’s Place. One of the most prolific oral historians on the Jazz Oral History Project, Willard recorded 16 interviews with luminaries such as Juan Tizol, John Simmons, and Teddy Edwards.

Patricia Willard is an oral historian specializing in jazz, a photojournalist, lecturer, editor, archivist, broadcaster, concert producer, and research consultant, who is currently completing a historiography of Duke Ellington, 1949-74, two additional books, and a play. In June 2018, she received the Jazz Journalists Association Lifetime Achievement Award. She has conducted 38 individual oral histories and one 2005 videotaped group oral history of 19 survivors of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

DSMP programming is supported by a Rutgers–Newark Chancellor’s seed grant.

OAT Program Supports Award-Winning Course

Rutgers–Camden chancellor Phoebe Haddon recently announced that the Rutgers-Camden Nursing School received a 2018 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Innovations in Professional Nursing Education Award for their Spanish for the Health Professions Certificate Program, offered in conjunction with the World Languages Department. The certificate is designed to develop the Spanish skills of nursing students, increasing their capacity to provide medical care to Spanish-speaking communities in Camden and across the world.

Dana Pilla, who was a 2017-2018 OAT recipient and who is serving on our review panel this year, is co-director of the certificate program. Her OAT course, Spanish for the Health Professions II, is a required component of the certificate. Her goal was to redesign the course to avoid costly access codes in order to better meet the demand for increased enrollment, assigning an e-book provided through the Libraries, other library resources, and free materials such as YouTube videos from the CDC and other professional health organizations.

Congratulations to the OAT team for the role they played in supporting this innovative and award-winning program!

NBMSA Recognized as Innovative Archives

The New Brunswick Music Scene Archive was presented with the Innovative Archives Award on Monmouth County Archives and History Day on October 13. Jeff Moy, archivist at Morristown & Morris Township Library, pictured left, presented the award on behalf of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference New Jersey Caucus to Christie Lutz, pictured right.

SOAR Gets a Shout-Out

We’ve just received word that David Axelrod, professor in the Department of Genetics, will be thanking SOAR for its archiving services in his next publication. Congratulations!

War Services Bureau Digital Collection Goes Live

The records of the Rutgers College War Service Bureau can now be accessed via their digital collection portal. This collection features letters from Rutgers students and alumni who served in the First World War, describing their experiences serving in the United States and overseas.

Rutgers–Camden Embraces The Big Read

Paul Robeson Library, in conjunction with the Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts, is hosting The Big Read/In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez now through January 3, 2019.

Alvarez’s 1994 novel is a work of historical fiction based on the lives of the four Mirabal sisters, who participated in underground efforts to topple dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s three-decade-long regime in the Dominican Republic. Three of the sisters—Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa—were executed on Trujillo’s orders on November 25, 1960. Their story haunted Alvarez, whose own family had fled the Dominican Republic just three months earlier in fear that her father’s participation in the resistance would make him a target of Trujillo.

Complimentary copies of Alvarez’s novel are available on a first-come, first-served basis and viewers will have the opportunity to contribute to the Butterflies in Memoriam installation piece by creating their own butterfly in remembrance or honor of someone close to them.

Exploring New Jersey’s Diverse Foodways

Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries’ new exhibition From Cooking Pot to Melting Pot: New Jersey’s Diverse Foodways will open November 12, 2018 at Alexander Library. The opening will feature a presentation by Carla Cevasco of the Rutgers Department of American Studies, historian of food in colonial America and author of the forthcoming Violent Appetites: Hunger, Natives and Settlers in the Northern Borderlands. From Cooking Pot to Melting Pot is one of the first events in Transcultural NJ Revisited 2018-2020, a two-year, statewide celebration of local and global cultures in the Garden State under the auspices of Rutgers’ Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. Register to attend.

October 31, 2018
Quick Takes on News & Events – September 2018

Conceiving New Tools for Public Health Researchers

In April 2018, JSTOR and Rutgers University convened a workshop of scholars, librarians, and students to brainstorm new ways to support public health researchers. Using a series of design thinking activities, they conceived a number of new tools and services, which were subsequently user-tested with both students and faculty. This video describes that work, shares the ideas that emerged, and presents the findings from the users tests.

Exploring the Rutgers Female Institute

A new post on the Rutgers Classics Department’s blog by professor T. Corey Brennan explores the classical roots of the Rutgers Female Institute, and also gives a nice shout out to our colleagues Kayo Denda and Fernanda Perrone for their work on The Douglass Century. Read the blog here.

Chantel Harris (third from left) was recently named an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the sorority her great-great-grandmother founded. Photo: Houston Style Magazine.

Congratulations to AKA’s Newest Honorary Member

Chantel Harris was named an honorary member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority this summer. Chantel is the great-great granddaughter of the sorority’s founder, Ethel Hedgeman Lyle. “Mrs. Harris’ commitment to helping others started at a young age. Through her church she served the homeless and worked with the Circle of L.O.V.E (Let’s Overcome Violence Everywhere) program that was started by her grandmother and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Muriel “Puff” Lyle- Smith. Mrs. Harris continues to advocate for women and children in her community. She is currently working to eliminate hostile work environments and workplace bullying,” wrote Houston Style Magazine in its report in July. Congratulations, Chantel!

Tweeting in Defense of Libraries Everywhere

Katrina Zwaaf’s tweets were featured in articles from Gizmodo and Inside Higher Ed following the Forbes article (subsequently removed) that stated Amazon stores should replace libraries to save taxpayers money. Thank you, Katrina, for taking this stand on behalf of libraries and the people we serve.

Not everyone has a computer and internet access. The digital divide still exists. It’s unlikely that Amazon will help people with their reference inquiries or evaluating which sources are creditable and which are not.#LibrariesStillMatter https://t.co/6zBv6trkgL

— Katrina Zwaaf (@KZwaaf) July 22, 2018

NJDNP Awarded Second NEH Grant

The New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project recently received a second grant, totaling $216,609, from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The additional funding will allow for the digitization of additional historical newspapers for the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America website. Read more in this report from NJ101.5. Congratulations to project director Caryn Radick and the entire NJDNP team!

Krista White Making Waves

Kudos are in order for Krista White, who has had two pieces of good news come across her desk recently. First, she has received another Rutgers–Newark Chancellor’s Seed Grant to expand her Digital Scholarship as 21st Century Scholarship project. The second grant—totaling $33,130, more than three times the initial award—will support Digital Scholarship as Modular Pedagogy, allowing Krista to develop curricular materials to share with faculty members and train them so that they can add digital scholarship and ACRL Framework elements into courses.

Next, Krista reports that the special issue of College & Undergraduate Libraries titled “The Digital Humanities: Implications for Librarians, Libraries, and Librarianship”—which includes an article she contributed—has been so well-received that Taylor & Francis has decided to publish it as a monograph through Routledge. Keep an eye out for it in January 2019. Congratulations, Krista, on all this fantastic recognition!

Mapping Philadelphia’s Historical Bike Routes

Julie Still’s article in Hidden City Philadelphia details her project to digitize the Philadelphia Inquirer’s column “Trips Awheel: Where to Go and How to Get There,” which appeared in 1897 and 1898. In addition to hand-drawn maps of each route, the column, written by Alphonse Estoclet, featured a unique blend of commentary and narrative. “The routes themselves read much as modern travel blogs do, with reference to historical, cultural, culinary, and financial aspects of the area,” Julie writes. View the research guide she created to document the project here.

Inspiring Librarians across the Country–with Buttons!

Megan Lotts and Tara Maharjan got a nice shout out on the Library Think Tank Facebook group last week for their recent article on button making: “Due to some major semester reorganization, our library lost a freshmen orientation event that we loved. We brainstormed an alternative Welcome event. We read the article about button making at Rutgers in College and Research Libraries News. My husband just happens to be the proud owner of a 40 year old button maker. We bought supplies and printed some images from our Archives. Our FTE is about 1200 and we made over 90 buttons yesterday (not everyone wanted a button). Students, faculty and staff all requested buttons. It was a blast,” wrote Mary Jackson, research and instruction librarian at Milligan College in Tennessee. Congratulations, Megan and Tara!

All that Jazz

Finally, Clement’s Place has announced a full schedule of events for the fall, including NJPAC Jam Sessions, the IJS Concert Series, and a new monthly series on Wednesdays called “Jazz973,” which focuses on local and emerging musicians. Clement’s is a really fantastic space and with all these events on tap, there’s never been a better time to check it out!

August 31, 2018
Quick Takes on Events and News – July 2018
MARAC Names NBMSA Innovative Archives

The New Brunswick Music Scene Archive has been awarded MARAC NJ’s Innovative Archives Award for 2018. Photo credit: NBMSA on Facebook.

The New Brunswick Music Scene Archive has been awarded the 2018 Innovative Archives Award from the MARAC NJ Caucus.

The award is given to an organization that has provided exemplary leadership or service to the archival community and residents of the state. It may also honor a local, county, or regional organization, either for long-term leadership or service, or for outstanding effort demonstrated in a given year. Nominees may have developed innovative educational or outreach models utilizing archival sources, provided leadership during a time of emergency or crisis, demonstrated new thinking in finding a solution to an issue or problem, or exhibited creativity in increasing awareness of local history resources among New Jersey residents and visitors.

The official presentation of the award will take place at Monmouth County Archives and History Day on October 13. Congratulations to Christie Lutz and Tara Maharjan in Special Collections and University Archives for this recognition of their tremendous work!

BTAA Cooperative Cataloging Partnership Receives ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Award

Rutgers was among the institutions recognized by the ALCTS’s 2018 Outstanding Collaboration Citation.

The Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Cooperative Cataloging Partnership was awarded the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services’ (ALCTS) Outstanding Collaboration Citation for 2018.

This award recognizes and encourages collaborative problem-solving efforts in the areas of acquisition, access, management, preservation, or archiving of library materials. It recognizes a demonstrated benefit from actions, services or products that improve and benefit providing and managing library collections. It was presented at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony at the ALA conference in June.

Congratulations are in order for our colleagues from Central Technical Services who comprised the Rutgers team: Colin Bitter, Roman Frackowski, Kati Ritter, Catherine Sauceda, and Mary Beth Weber. Rutgers both provided cataloging (Roman and Kati for foreign languages and Catherine for musical scores) and took advantage of the program to eliminate a backlog of titles in Arabic and other foreign languages.

NJEDL Spotlights Outdoorsy Summer Getaways

Whitesbog Village. Photo credit: Peter Miller on flickr.

Looking for the perfect summer day trip? Look no farther than the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library’s spotlights column. This area highlights activities around the state mostly having to do with the outdoors or the environment. Forthcoming events include:
- 100th Annual Mercer County 4-H Fair, July 28–29
- Bio Blitz at Whitesbog Village, July 28–29
- Making Bark Collection Containers and Berry Harvesting, August 8
- Star Gazing with Morris Museum Astronomical Society, August 18
Learn more on the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library homepage.
June 28, 2018
Quick Takes on Events and News – June 2018
Dana Librarians Lead the Way

Bobbie Tipton is recognized for having earned her ACUE credential in effective instruction. Credit: Bria Williams.

Bobbie Tipton and Ann Watkins were recognized by the P3 Collaboratory at the Rutgers–Newark Chancellor’s Luncheon in May for having completed the Association of College and University Educator’s course in effective teaching practices, earning a national credential in the process. Dana Library had the distinction of being the unit with the highest number of participants thus far. Congratulations to Bobbie, Ann, and all who participated! Learn more in the Rutgers–Newark news article.

Michael Joseph will have a series of photographs on display in the Degrees of Abstraction exhibit in June.

A Man of Many Talents

Michael Joseph will have a series of eleven photographs titled “Comings/Goings” in the Degrees of Abstraction exhibition on display at the Rotunda Gallery in Jersey City from June 4 to 30. A reception will be held on Tuesday June 12. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Please see the Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs website for more information.

Bart Everts (c.) poses with Camden mayor Frank Moran (r.) during the Camden Bike Share launch event.

Rubbing Elbows (and Tires!) with the Bigwigs

Congratulations to Bart Everts for participating in a group bike ride with Camden’s mayor, Frank Moran, and Rutgers–Camden representatives in May. The event was held to mark the launch of the Camden Bike Share program.

Something You’re Looking For?

Three new finding aids are now available for Sinclair New Jersey collections in Special Collections and University Archives.
- New Jersey Regional Zines (New collection!)
- New Jersey Portraits
- New Jersey Sheet Music
Congrats to an Old Colleague

Constantia Constantiou, who worked in the Libraries’ Scholarly Communications Center in the early 2000s, has been named the H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of the Penn Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania. Congrats, Constantia! Learn more on the UPenn website.
May 31, 2018
Quick Takes on Events and News – May 2018
Honoring a Great-Great Legacy

Chantel Harris (l.) at the ceremony honoring her great-great grandmother, Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, who founded the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

Chantel Harris, library associate and student coordinator at the Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers–Camden, was a special guest at the ceremonial dedication and unveiling of a school bench at Charles Sumner High School in St. Louis, Missouri, in honor of her great-great-grandmother, Ethel Hedgeman Lyle. Lyle was the originator and founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (AKA). Chantel received a proclamation from the mayor of St. Louis, as well as a resolution from the Board of Aldermen naming April 5, 2018 “Ethel Hedgeman Lyle Day.”

Lyle graduated from Sumner High School in 1904 and founded AKA in 1908 at Howard University. Chantel is pictured with the sorority’s international president, Dr. Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson, central regional director Kathy Walker-Steele, and members of the Board of Directors.

The USPS is considering an Ethel Hedgeman Lyle 2019-2020 USPS Forever Postage Stamp.

You can read more here.

Jazz Ambassadors Premieres on PBS May 4

IJS founder Marshall Stearns and Quincy Jones at the Acropolis.

A new PBS documentary featuring archival material from the Institute of Jazz Studies is slated to premiere at 10 p.m. on Friday, May 4. Here’s a quick synopsis from PBS.org:

“The Cold War and civil rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ambassadors, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and their racially diverse band members faced a painful dilemma: How could they represent a country that still practiced Jim Crow segregation?”

Congratulations to Tad Hershorn, Adriana Cuervo, and all of our IJS colleagues who contributed to this project. We can’t wait to see the premiere!

Special Collections News Roundup

Helene van Rossum’s new children’s book is titled “The Best Mom in the Universe.”

Lots of great news coming out of Special Collections and University Archives lately:
- The finding aid for the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive is now live. The collection continues to grow, and the finding aid will be updated periodically.
- Speaking of which, the New Brunswick Music Scene Archive has a brand new Facebook page! Be sure to head over and give them a like.
- A new finding aid is also available for the New Brunswick Vertical File in the Sinclair New Jersey collection. This collection of primarily printed material documents a vast array of aspects of New Brunswick history, mostly between 1935 and 1960 and arranged by subject. Special thanks go to School of Communication & Information graduate student Louise Lobello for her work on the finding aid.
- The latest children’s picture book by public services and outreach archivist Helene van Rossum has just been published. Written in Dutch, it’s titled The Best Mom in the Universe. Check it out (along with her other children’s books) over on Helene’s blog.
Busting Students’ Stress

New Stressbusters flyer templates are available from the Communications Department.

It’s finals week, which of course means that #STRESSBUSTERS are back at libraries across Rutgers–New Brunswick. But Rutgers–Camden is joining in the fun this semester, too, with the first-ever pet therapy session at Paul Robeson Library slated for Friday, May 4. Good luck to our colleagues at Robeson! Hopefully this is the beginning of a long and successful tradition.

Are you planning your own stress-relieving finals activities? The Communications Department has created new flyer templates to help promote your events. Check them out here: T:\CENTRAL\Templates\Signage Templates\stressbusters\word templates
May 3, 2018
Quick Takes on Events and News – April 2018

Congratulations to Consuella Askew for being named a 2018 Senior Library Fellow!

California-Bound!

Congratulations are in order for Consuella Askew, who was recently announced as one of the 17 library leaders who have been selected to participate in this year’s Library Senior Fellows program at UCLA.

Consuella will join an international cohort of fellows at UCLA in August for a three-week residential program combining management perspectives, strategic thinking, and practical and theoretical approaches to the issues confronting academic institutions and their libraries. We can’t wait to hear all about it!

Where Literature and Medicine Meet

Kayo Denda and Victoria Wagner are at the heart of a new partnership with Robert Wood Johnson Medical School that will expand the dialogue surrounding issues of gender, sexuality, and identity in campus hospitals. The Literature and Medicine series brings free film screenings and discussions to the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital one Monday each month. Next up: A presentation on transgenderism and the military on April 16. Learn more.

Ryan Womack meets a parking lot attendant in the Mongolian airport.

Teaching Data in Mongolia

Ryan Womack was recently invited to the Mongolian University of Life Sciences’ School of Economics and Business, where he taught a weeklong seminar on applied multivariate statistical methods using R. The seminar drew participants from schools across the university as well as Mongolian governmental offices. He also participated in meetings to discuss improvements to the academic and data infrastructure of the university and talked with undergraduate statistics majors about trends in data science. Read more on our website or the RyanData blog (which has a ton of great photos from the trip!).

Happy Birthday Paul Robeson!

April 9, 2018 marks the 120th birthday of Rutgers alum, actor, artist, and activist Paul Robeson. In honor of this milestone, Paul Robeson Library is hosting events throughout the month of April including an exhibit about his life, a documentary film screening and panel discussion, and a birthday party on Rutgers Day. Learn more about the planned festivities.

The 32nd annual Bishop Lecture comes to Alexander Library on April 25.

Who Spoke Up?

The 32nd Annual Louis Faugères III Bishop Lecture will be held at Alexander Library on April 25. Join us as we welcome David Greenberg, professor of history and journalism and media studies at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and author of Republic of Spin: The Inside History of the American Presidency. Greenberg’s lecture, titled “Who Spoke Up?: Liberals, the Left, and the ‘Great Debate’ over Entering World War II,” will paint a vivid portrait of the personalities and debates surrounding America’s entrance into World War II, illustrating the importance of political papers projects for this type of original historical and political research.

As a scholar of political history, Greenberg frequently uses political papers in his research. For his most recent book, he visited no less than six presidential libraries and used political collections at the Library of Congress and Princeton University.

March 30, 2018
Quick Takes on Events and News – March 2018

Leslin Charles receives an award from Undergraduate Academic Affairs.

Three Cheers for Leslin…

Instructional design librarian Leslin Charles last month received an award from Rutgers–New Brunswick’s Undergraduate Academic Affairs for generosity and commitment to the education of Rutgers students. As all of us at the Libraries who have worked with Leslin know, this recognition is well-deserved. Congratulations, Leslin!

…and for Julie and Zara!

We’ve just received word that reference/instruction librarians Julie Still and Zara Wilkinson will be recognized as Rutgers University–Camden Women of Excellence today in honor of Women’s History Month. This distinction, conferred by the Office of Student Involvement, the Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance, the Women’s & Gender Studies Program, and the Division of Student Affairs, honors faculty and staff and celebrates mentorship. Congratulations, Julie and Zara!

An Unspecific Gift

Barbara Madsen, associate professor in print at Mason Gross, presented a copy of Unspecific Object to rare books librarian Michael Joseph last month. Unspecific Object is an artists’ book containing 14 original photogravures and poems. For this work, people were invited to submit images of objects they collect past and present. Submissions ran the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Barbara Madsen presents Michael Joseph with Unspecific Object.

The winners were juried by Jared Ash, assistant museum librarian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Arezoo Moseni, senior art librarian at the New York Public Library. The material objects were sent to Barbara who created a photographic response. Ely Rosa Zamora, a Venezuelan poet, created her interpretation of the images in poetry. The limited edition of the artist book/portfolio was published by Choir Alley Press. Housed in an orange portfolio box, the edition size is 15 copies: the Rutgers copy is no. 8.

Saying Farewell to a Dear Colleague

Please join us for a cocktail reception celebrating the retirement of Jeanne Boyle, associate university librarian for planning and organizational research, on March 16 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Alexander Library. Contributions of $25 toward a gift (cash or checks made payable to Cash) can be sent with your response to Tonie Perkins at Alexander Library. Kindly RSVP by March 9.

Celebrate the completion of the Badian Roman Coins Project on March 23.

Celebrating a Classic Collection

Celebrate the completion of the Badian Roman Coins Project at Alexander Library on March 23 at 3 p.m. The Badian Roman Coins Project is a collaborative effort to bring fully into the digital realm Rutgers’ Ernst Badian Collection of Roman Republican coins, one of the largest collections of its type in North America.

The project contextualizes the collection’s 1,200 items through an ambitious, web-based public portal and archive, helping users undersand patterns of development in Roman money in its ﬁrst 250 years. RSVP to attend at badiancoins.eventbrite.com.

Physicians Assistants Exhibit on the Move

The traveling National Library of Medicine exhibit Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care is making a stop in the Great Hall of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School from 4 to 6 p.m. on March 1, as a centerpiece of a reception and celebration of “50 years of PA History” hosted by the Rutgers Physician Assistant program.

The Physician Assistants exhibit will be on view at a PA Program reception on March 1.

The Rutgers PA program is part of the Rutgers School of Health Professions, and recently relocated to the sixth floor of the Robert Wood Johnson Research Tower. The March 1 event is a job fair for PA students and an open house for the PA Program. The event is cohosted by the PA programs at Seton Hall University and Monmouth University. Next up, the exhibit will move to the Library of Science and Medicine, where it will be on display through March 24.

Main Street in Somerville, 1908.

New Additions to NJDH

The latest addition to the New Jersey Digital Highway offers a glimpse into 40 years of the history of central New Jersey.

“Somerville and its Environs: Images from Central Jersey History 1885–1925” was curated by Jim Sommerville, a former librarian at Somerville Library of the Somerset County Library System. The collection is the first batch of photographs from the library system’s holdings that will be digitized and made available in high-resolution scans for use by teachers, students, and the public via the immersive, online information portal.

March 1, 2018
Quick Takes on Events and News – February 2018
The Douglass Century will be published by Rutgers University Press next month. Check out the March Agenda for your chance to win a free copy!

Celebrating the Douglass Century

Congratulations are in order for our colleagues Kayo Denda and Fernanda Perrone, who, along with Mary Hawkesworth of the departments of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies, have penned a history of Douglass Residential College entitled The Douglass Century: Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers University. The book will be published by Rutgers University Press next month. From the press:

“The Douglass Century celebrates the college’s longevity and diversity as distinctive accomplishments, and analyzes the contributions of Douglass administrators, alumnae, and students to its survival, while also investigating multiple challenges that threatened its existence. This book demonstrates how changing historical circumstances altered the possibilities for women and the content of higher education, comparing the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, the Second World War, the post-war Civil Rights era, and the resurgence of feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. Concluding in the present day, the authors highlight the college’s ongoing commitment to Mabel Smith Douglass’ founding vision, “to bring about an intellectual quickening, a cultural broadening in connection with specific training so that women may go out into the world fitted…for leadership…in the economic, political, and intellectual life of this nation.” In addition to providing a comprehensive history of the college, the book brings its subjects to life with eighty full-color images from the Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.”

But wait—there’s more! March’s issue of the Agenda will include a contest for a free copy of The Douglass Century, so tune in next month for your chance to win.

LSM open house on February 13.

LSM Open House

Spread the word! The Library of Science and Medicine will open its doors to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School students and faculty on Tuesday, February 13 at 4 p.m.

There will be ample opportunity to meet health sciences librarians and learn about the resources, tools, study spaces, and collections that are available on Busch campus.

Refreshments will be served and complimentary retractable ID card holders will be available while supplies last.

Watch: State of the Libraries

A video of Krisellen Maloney’s State of the Libraries presentation is now available on our YouTube channel.

Krisellen’s presentation from State of the Libraries is now available on our YouTube channel. It includes an introduction of new employees, an overview of the Ex Libris implementation, and a discussion of the budget. Kudos to Rich Sandler for his work on the video. And in case you missed it, a video playlist of the poster sessions from State of the Libraries was posted in last month’s issue of the Agenda.

The New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project Goes Live

The New Jersey Digital Newspaper project celebrated a major milestone last month when the first batch of pages from the Perth Amboy Evening News became available to the public via the Library of Congress website Chronicling America. Colleagues from the Libraries, the New Jersey State Library, New Jersey State Archives, and the New Jersey research community gathered at Alexander Library to commemorate the occasion with presentations, tours of the project facilities, and of course—cupcakes!
Dee Magnoni, Maxine Lurie, Caryn Radick, Mary Chute, and Grace Agnew at the NJDNP launch celebration.

A nice crowd was on hand to learn about the project’s public launch.

Giovanna Ligato-Pugliese and Jacob Paul were happy to give attendees tours of the project office and demonstrations of equipment.

A case display illustrated the source material for the digital versions of the newspapers now available online.

The cupcakes were “black, white, and read all over!”
During the proceedings, state librarian Mary Chute read a letter on behalf of Congressman Frank Pallone, which said in part: “I would like to commend the New Jersey State Library, Rutgers University Libraries and the New Jersey State Archives for undertaking this important project. Here in New Jersey we have a rich history and innumerable contributions in science, innovation, politics and the humanities. The digitization of these newspapers will provide user friendly access of these historical records to all individuals across the globe. I am proud that The Perth Amboy Evening News is the first New Jersey newspaper available through this invaluable project.”

Read more about the project in our press release.

John Maxymuk.

Catching up with the Libraries’ NFL Expert

Paul Robeson Library’s John Maxymuk has authored over a dozen books about the history of the NFL in addition to an entry on professional football in the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia? In advance of Super Bowl LII this weekend, we caught up with John to discuss his love of football and penchant for research—and, of course, whether the Eagles stand a chance against Tom Brady and the Patriots.

A New Look for the IJS

The new IJS logo.

The Institute of Jazz Studies recently unveiled a new logotype, which you can view on our visual identity resources website. Congrats to our colleagues at the IJS for adopting this fresh new look!

What’s Happening is the Libraries’ monthly events enewsletter.

Do You Know What’s Happening?

Did you know we publish a monthly enewsletter of events happening around the Libraries? If not, check out this month’s edition to see what you’ve been missing and feel free to subscribe!

Do you have an upcoming exhibit, workshop, or other event that you’d like the world to know about? Submit it at https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/events and we’ll include it in forthcoming issues of the newsletter.

The Jersey Collective exhibit at Robeson Library. Credit: John Powell.

Closing Soon: Catch These Displays while You Still Can!

Jersey Collective: The Third Year @ Robeson Library through February 9

Milton to Milton: The Legacy of J. Milton French @ Alexander Library through February 28

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January 31, 2018
Quick Takes on Events and News – January 2018
Robert Kirkbride accepts the NJSAA Author Award for “Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital.” Credit: Casey Ambrosio / The Daily Targum.

NJ Academics Unite!

The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance held their annual Author Award Winners Panel at Alexander Library in December. These awards recognize works that reflect a new understanding of New Jersey’s history and culture, demonstrate evidence of original research in the application of New Jersey resources, or reveal new insights into a given topic.

This year’s winners? Garry Wheeler Stone for Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle in the nonfiction scholarly category; Rusty Tagliareni and Robert Kirkbride for Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in the nonfiction popular category; and Maxine Lurie and Richard Veit for Envisioning New Jersey: An Illustrated History of the Garden State in the reference category. Read more in the Daily Targum’s recap of the awards.

The Creative Life of Douglass opens at Douglass Library on January 16.

Celebrating a Century of Creativity

The Creative Life of Douglass—an exhibition of materials from the University Archives chronicling ten decades of dance, theater, music, visual arts, and literature produced by the women of Douglass Residential College–opens at Douglass Library on January 16. The display, part of the #Douglass100 centennial celebration and held in partnership with the Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, was curated by the Libraries’ Kayo Denda, Erika Gorder, and Fernanda Perrone.

kite+key now offers payroll deduction for full time employees.

A New Way to Get Your Tech On

kite+key, the Rutgers tech store, is now offering payroll deduction as a payment option for all full-time Rutgers faculty and staff. Employees can spread $250–$3,000 over one year, or 26 paychecks (10-month faculty payment schedule varies) with no interest! Payments as low as $9.62 per check for a $250 purchase to $115.38 per check for a $3,000 purchase. For more information and to view the Terms and Agreement, visit kiteandkey.rutgers.edu/payroll-deduction.

Lookin’ Fresh

The Libraries’ website refresh launched just before the holiday break and it looks fantastic. Kudos to the Web Improvement Team for their hard work in pulling all the changes off in time for the spring semester. Interested in learning more about the refresh and the research that informed the changes? Amy Kimura’s post from last month’s Agenda is definitely worth revisiting. And if you have any comments or suggestions for the team, head on over to their feedback submission form.

Regina Koury begins as director of Paul Robeson Library on January 16.

A New Year, A New Vision

This month we will welcome Regina Koury as the new director of Paul Robeson Library at Rutgers–Camden. Regina comes to us from Idaho State University, where she served as assistant university librarian for discovery and resource services.

“It is a particular honor to have been selected as director of Paul Robeson Library,” she said when her appointment was announced. “I look forward to working with excellent library staff, students, and faculty; to continue expanding outstanding library services, collections, and spaces; and to collaborating on existing and new initiatives in support of the Rutgers–Camden community.”

And we look forward to helping her achieve her vision! Read our press release to learn more about Regina.

Marty Kesselman Will Give the 5th SAPAC Talk of the Year on January 16, 2018, 12 p.m.

Marty Kesselman will present “Report of the Consumer Electronics Show,” on Tuesday, January 16, 2018, 12pm-1pm, in the Pane Room of Alexander Library (remote to Dana Library Special Collections Room, Robeson Library Conference Room, and Smith Library Conference Room). Topics to be covered include:
- New technologies of potential use in libraries and how and why librarians can attend.
- Report from the one day session, Transforming EDU that focuses on how technology is changing the face of teaching in various ways, e.g. credential vs. degrees, non traditional students, use of new technologies (e.g. virtual reality) in the classroom (and libraries), makerspaces, etc.
- University innovation programs that encourage young science entrepreneurs and a potential new role for libraries.
- How quickly this area is moving and how does one keep up.
- Feedback and discussion with those that attend.
A glimpse at the Milton to Milton exhibit on display at Alexander Library through February 28.

Closing Soon: Catch These Displays while You Still Can!

Opposition: The 23rd Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium Exhibit @ Alexander Library through January 29

The Big Read/Citizen: An American Lyric @ Robeson Library through January 5

Milton to Milton: The Legacy of J. Milton French @ Alexander Library through February 28

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January 1, 2018