Dr. Selden Bacon’s Papers donated to CAS Library
The papers of Dr. Selden D. Bacon, director of the Center of Alcohol Studies from 1950 through 1975, were generously donated to the CAS Library by his son, Selden Bacon, … Read More
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A First Edition of the AA “Big Book”
In the summer of 2013, we at the Center of Alcohol Studies Library took it upon ourselves to transform the conference room into an historical exhibit, displaying affiliated publications, classic … Read More
Bunky @125
The Information Services Division is delighted to share a special issue of its newsletter to commemorate the 125th anniversary of E. M. Jellinek’s birth. Table of Contents Who remembers Jellinek? – … Read More
Who Remembers Jellinek?
[This is the editorial of the Jellinek Special Anniversary issue of the CAS Information Services Newsletter, co-authored by Judit H. Ward and William Bejarano.] In 1982, Mark Keller, editor of … Read More
Looking Forward, Looking Back: Celebrating Seventy-Five Years of Alcohol Studies
[Abstract of presentation at the Medical Library Association, Chicago, May 19, 2015] Objectives: To inspire short-staffed libraries to make themselves valuable and indispensable to their organizations. To share the story … Read More
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
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