Here at the Center of Alcohol Studies Library, we are digging up and digitizing the archives. We have a vast and valuable collection of original pamphlets from the Temperance Movement … Read More
On April 30, 2014, the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs hosted a 75th-anniversary reception in the atrium of the Life Sciences Building on Rutgers University’s Busch Campus. The journal, … Read More
In 1940, the United States was barely 7 years past the end of its experiment with the national prohibition of alcohol, and relatively little was known about the effects of … Read More
Correspondence between Mark Keller and Thelma Pierce Anderson (1963-1990) Following up on the new discoveries in Mark Keller’s papers from the previous issue of the CAS Library Newsletter, several typed … Read More
New Jersey librarians gathered for the second time in the Revel Resort Hotel in Atlantic City for their annual conference. The Center was represented by three information assistants (Christine Bariahtaris, … Read More
In 2013, a mini exhibit called the Jellinek Corner was set up at the entrance of the CAS Library to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of E.M. Jellinek … Read More
A small but very interesting personal collection was donated to the CAS Library in June 2013 by Sheila Blume, M.D., lecturer at the Rutgers Summer School of Alcohol Studies (student … Read More
In the summer of 2013, CAS Library staff took the initiative and started to rearrange the display cabinets in the large conference room in the Smithers building. All objects on … Read More
In a back room of the Alcohol Studies Library there were three large file cabinets hosting an assortment of files that were once the property of a true legend in … Read More
[Poster presented at the Medical Library Association Conference, May 5-9, 2013, Boston] Objectives: To explore and document how a revolutionary special library information system designed in the 1940s to … Read More