Conference Room Update
You may have noticed a new addition to the ever-evolving Conference Room (200), as two eye-catching Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs posters have been hung in the corner … Read More
Blog: Secrets from the Past
Digitization of Prohibition and Temperance Movement Pamphlets
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
Sitting on a Gold Mine: Poster Presenting CAS Resources
On June 3rd, 2014, Judit, Bill, and Deborah Fanslow represented the CAS library at the NJLA Conference in Atlantic City. Our poster was entitled “Sitting on a Gold Mine: Becoming … Read More
Conference Globetrotting
From May 17th through May 20th, Judit Ward, Bill Bejarano, and Helen Castro traveled to Chicago to attend the Medical Library Association (MLA) conference, entitled MLA ’14: Building Our Information … Read More
The Journal of Studies on Alcohol Celebrates 75 years
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
JSAD 75th Anniversary issue
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
To the Jellinek Mystery: Keller – Thelma (Part 1)
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
Shelia Blume interview with Mark Keller
“The news is its medium, not its message”: Mark Keller’s turning point Sheila Blume, M.D., was a lecturer at the Rutgers Summer School of Alcohol Studies (student 1965, lecturer 1966 … Read More
Poster Presenting CAS Archives to New Jersey Librarians
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
The Jellinek Corner in the CAS Library
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