Project Timeline
A lot has happened since we launched Books We Read at the Chang Science Library in August, 2019. Highlights in reverse chronological order:
FALL 2023
- Clothesline project indoors in Douglass: post, online exhibit
- Holodomor exhibit in Douglass: post, online exhibit, event gallery
- New in Books We Write: Becky Diamond
- Banned books exhibits and image galleries in three libraries:
- Banned Books Students Read
- Banned Books Librarians Read
- Banned Children’s Books
- Banned Books Week 2023 (with resources and past events)
SUMMER 2023
- Author Talk with Javier Zamora
- New in NJ authors: Harlan Coben
- New in cookbooks: Celebrity chefs, Promotional cookbooks
- Quit lit and alcohol memoirs
SPRING 2023
- New in Books We Write series: Becky Diamond
- Focus on mental health and bibliotherapy
- New series: True Crime and Crime Fiction
- New topic: Archives
- New topic: Food history
FALL 2022
- Books They Read: miniposter exhibit in Douglass, Chang, and Art
- New topic: Music Books
- Focus on short stories
- Books They Write: promoting Faculty Authors event
- New series: Science Fiction
- Banned or Challenged: observing Banned Books Week
- Banned books students recommend (gallery)
SUMMER 2022
- A Hungarian author from two perspectives: Szilárd Borbély, Kafka’s son
- Summer Tales 2022
- New Guide: Summer Tales 2022
- Meet the Author: Julie Otsuka
- New Series: How We Read (contributions from NBL librarians, staff, and students)
- New Series: So you want to go to Grad School
SPRING 2022
- SEBS PASS posters “Books We Read”
- Staff Picks from the Recreational Reading Collection
- Writing & Citing in the Science Communication series
- New in Books We Write series: Stephanie Bartz
- Recreational Reading LibGuide updated, new books coming soon
- Byrne seminar on Marijuana with “weed reads”
- Digital Alcohol Studies Archives: access to books and more
FALL 2021
- New topics: food books, baking, and music
- Recreational Reading LibGuide from Books We Read, taking over the collection
- Introducing the New Brunswick Libraries RecRead Collection
- Bibliotherapy: Shelf Help, posts on Bibliotherapy,
- New Bibliotherapy Guide
- Banned Books Week and follow up : blog posts, co-hosted read-out with flash talks
- New series: interviews with authors of Books We Write: Megan Lotts and Judit H. Ward
SUMMER 2021
- Books that heal: Bibliotherapy workshop for the NBL Wellness Group
- Graphic Design Workshop for the NBL Learning Community: see image galleries
- Summer reading recommendations (continued)
Holiday Reads
Staff Picks - Meet the Author: Natalie Díaz
- Meet the Author: Carmen Maria Machado
- Summer Tales 2021 with Summer Session
- New Guide: Summer Tales 2021
- New galleries
Art Librarian’s designs
One-minute designs- New Jersey by Janet Evanovich
SPRING 2021
- Poetry Month – a whole month dedicated to poetry
- New guide: Books We Read: Poetry
- Graphic Design Workshop – creativity and fun
- Science Communication
- Books for children:
Covid-19 Books for Children
Reflection: International Youth Literature Collection - Book recommendations for a stay-at-home spring break:
Spring Break Responsibly
Spring Break Reads
Spring Break World Tour - Revisiting ”Reading for Recovery” (project at the Center of Alcohol Studies Library in 2015-2016)
- Books We Read in Numbers (statistics, most popular posts, resource types)
FALL 2020
- Tales We Read online semester reading program
- Banned Books Week (with SCARLA, LISSA, and SC&I Alumni Association)
- Citation Workshop for Work/Study Student Development Series
- Urban Sketching (promoting a month-long project hosted by NBL Art Library and SEBS Department of Landscape Architecture)
- Citizen Science project and workshop
- Science Communication: Cite Right series
- Holiday Reads book recommendations
- Stressbusters: Canva Workshop, Virtual Pet Therapy
SUMMER 2020
- Summer Tales Virtual Reading Club (with Summer Session)
- Summer Tales reading guide
- Meet the Author: Joyce Carol Oates
- Summer reading recommendations
Holiday Reads
Staff Picks - Summer with New Jersey authors
SPRING 2020
- SEBS Little Free Library outside the Chang Science Library (progress, pictures and video)
- New Guide: Books We Read Online with eBook recommendations
- New blog posts, including Corona Reads and Staff Picks
- Creating online communities:
RUGRAT Rutgers University Groups Reading Alone Together
Cook Reads Anyone on the Cook Campus - Rutgers resources for remote work/study: eBooks, audiobooks, streaming videos, newspapers
- Reading Harry Potter at Chang in February, 2020 (story, pictures)
FALL 2019
- Reading Harry Potter at Chang in September, 2019 (story, pictures)
- Short story discussion sessions (Fall 2019)
- Science Café at SEBS moved to the Chang Science Library (pictures)
- Poster gallery: Fall 2019 Academic Mentoring course
SUMMER 2019
- Book recommendations from the collection of the Rutgers University Libraries
- Downloadable sample book discussion material
- Poster galleries featuring mini-posters
created by SEBS students – Spring 2019 PASS course
created by faculty -
Books We Read – the original guide (print titles)