Time to Say Goodbye?
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
Resources
Treasure of the Month: The First Summer School of Alcohol Studies
Eighty years ago it must have looked like a rather ambitious attempt to bring together a diverse group of people on the Yale University campus for a six-week summer program … Read More
Treasure of the Month: Alcohol, Cats, and People
Alcoholism is occasionally referred to as “Jellinek’s Disease” in honor of E. M. Jellinek, whose works, including the book The Disease Concept of Alcoholism, published in 1960, has left a … Read More
Conference Room Exhibit
In 2013, a permanent exhibit was set up by the CAS Library staff in Conference Room 200 in Smithers Hall. The exhibit in the five display cabinets aims to demonstrate … Read More
Month Four Reflections
The fourth month came with unexpected challenges. The impending Rutgers-wide strike early in the month urged me to complete any task that would become a major roadblock for my colleagues … Read More
Treasure of the Month: Bunkyana
“Bunky” was Jellinek’s nickname, fitting the scientist, the humanitarian, and the “screwball,” as his second wife Thelma Pierce Anderson remembers him in a letter to Mark Keller. Contrary to what … Read More
Halfway Through: Take What You Can and Leave the Rest
March means spring, and spring means spring break in academia, but work in the background never stops. The end of the month hallmarks the midpoint of my sabbatical dedicated to … Read More
Judging a Book by its Cover
Is it scholarly? Librarians often receive this question from students trying to orient themselves while navigating the maze of articles from scholarly and popular publications they need to cite when … Read More
Month Two: Progress, not Perfection
There’s nothing more inspirational than the first few tangible results of a project. In this case, they are visible rather than tangible, it’s a digital archive after all. It reminds … Read More
Treasure of the Month: A Picture of Keller, the Bunky, and Bunky’s Daughter
Mark Keller had probably done every possible job both at the Yale and Rutgers Centers, small and big. Going through the Mark Keller Papers again feels like a blast from … Read More