That’s Special Anticipating the physical and programmatic merger of the Department of Special Collections, University Archives, and the Records Management Program later this spring, University Librarian Hendrik Edelman has asked Ruth Simmons to serve as coordinator. Funds for the renovation… Continue Reading
IRIS Offline Welcome to the new millennium! I hope everyone had a chance to enjoy the holiday and celebrate in style. The holiday break really flew by, and now we’re at the beginning of the new semester. As you all… Continue Reading
Overdue Notice This note was recently received at Douglass Library accompanying a book that was overdue in 1963. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: My malicious brother, John Doe, died recently and… Continue Reading
Play ball! RULSA is sponsoring a baseball trip on Sunday, July 20 for the Yankees vs. Kansas City game. The cost of the trip ($13.00 for RULSA members and their families, $13.50 for non-members and their families) will include the… Continue Reading
How To Mary Beth Fecko, Technical and Automated Services, has written Cataloging Nonbook Resources: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians. Cataloging is the starting point for access to nonbook materials, especially important for media which cannot be browsed in the manner… Continue Reading
DIY Courseware Congratulations to Ronald Jantz of the Scholarly Communication Center and Rutgers history Professor Rudy Bell, who wrote the article “Do it Yourself Courseware: How We Built A Reusable Web Platform for Studying World Cultures,” published in the February… Continue Reading
This month we take a look at what the new year brought to the Libraries in 1981. Movin’ on Up A recent Association of Research Libraries report by Kendon Stubbs entitled “The ARL Library Index and Quantitative Relationships in the… Continue Reading
It may be hard to believe, but November 1998 was two whole decades ago! What was happening around the Libraries? Dana Puts High Schoolers Online 16 Newark Central High School students… participated in an innovative computer-usage-training program conducted last year… Continue Reading
A lot of things can change in 17 years… but then again, some things never do. What was happening at the dawn of another fall semester for the Libraries in 2001? A Fall Greeting… and a New Colleague The Summer… Continue Reading
Twenty-one years ago, all hands were on deck as the Libraries were gearing up for the implementation of a new library system. Sound familiar? Here’s a snapshot of the Agenda from July 1997. With a Little Love from Our Friends… Continue Reading