“Treasures in our Backyard: Meet the Digital Alcohol Studies Archives” was the title of our talk hosted by Rutgers University Libraries faculty Scholarly and Professional Actives Committee (SAPAC) held on … Read More
December is the month for reflections, or it should be, before considering New Year’s resolutions in January. It seems most appropriate for us to present the results of the Digital … Read More
Sociologist Selden D. Bacon is best known at Rutgers for being the CAS Director who brought the Center of Alcohol Studies to Rutgers from Yale in 1962, no small feat … Read More
Even if it’s going to be a never-ending project, the Digital Alcohol Studies Archives Collection is now in good enough shape that it can be promoted widely. We even have … Read More
[Press release to introduce the Digital Alcohol Studies Archives Collection by Judit H. Ward, Nicholas Allred, and William Bejarano, September 2023.] The Digital Alcohol Studies Archives is an open-access collection … Read More
E. M. Jellinek has been described as “the Renaissance Man who brought alcohol studies out of the Dark Ages” by Dr. Thomas Babor, Editor-in-Chief of JSAD (2015-2023), recipient of the … Read More
Dedicated solely to this project, my first ever (and probably last) sabbatical leave came to an end on June 30, 2023. In my report, I called it “highly successful,” with … Read More
Or is it? This site was created in 2020 as a temporary Alcohol Studies Archives, which is the online version of the Special Collections and Archives that used to be … Read More
Wrapping up six months offocusing on a single major project is a delightful period indeed. The journey is just as important as the destination, as I discovered long ago. In … Read More
My personal favorite, the Raymond G. McCarthy Memorial Collection is housed in their spectacular, custom-made archival cases on the second floor in the Annex. Among the dusty old items, often … Read More