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
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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
The “Disease Concept” at the Alcohol Archive
According to alcohol historian William White, The disease concept of alcoholism “stands as the most widely cited (and least read) literary artifact of the modern alcoholism movement.” Published by Hillhouse Press, … 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
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
Lay Supplements
Offered here for the first time are the complete full-text versions of the Lay Supplements series, prepared by the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Based on the information found in Lay Supplement … Read More
Classics of the Alcohol Literature
The Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol published several early writings on alcoholism with comments by prominent scholars of the field from 1941 to 1946. Collected in a single, currently hard-to-find volume … Read More
The Digital Alcohol Studies Archives: The Instructor’s Perspective
[The following text is an edited version of a presentation “A Treasure Trove of Alcohol Science: The Digital Alcohol Studies Archives at Rutgers” hosted by the Scholarly and Professional Activity … Read More