Ukrainian Libraries a Year Later
You don’t have to be a librarian to think about the damages of war to libraries. If you love books, you must be horrified to see images of shelled buildings … Read More
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Bringing Ukrainian books to the library (Part 2)
Following up on part one of the interview with the representatives of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA), the second part continues to advocate and educate the public … Read More
Bringing Ukrainian books to the library (Part 1)
At the start of the war in Ukraine, we were interested in books available about Ukraine from our libraries. We wrote about poets and poems from Ukraine, as well as … Read More
Stressbusters 2022: Pet Therapy (Ukrainian War Edition)
Fact: Pets are very popular at library stressbuster events. After the lockdown in Spring 2020, Books We Read came up with the idea of “Virtual Pet Therapy” as a new, … Read More
Never Again: UNWLA’s Holodomor Commemoration Initiatives
In 2023, Rutgers University’s Mabel Smith Douglass Library hosted an exhibit curated by the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA) to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, the great Ukrainian … Read More
Holodomor: Reading Recommendations
Dedicated to our Ukrainian series, Books We Read is pleased to share reading recommendations in November, typically a month of Holodomor commemoration in Ukraine and within Ukrainian communities abroad. Initiated … Read More
Holodomor Event Gallery
As part of the commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, an informative lecture “Moscow’s Starvation of Ukraine (1932-1933) – Why, How, and So What?” was presented by Victor … Read More
Holodomor Exhibit in Douglass Library
Library users in Douglass are accustomed to viewing an array of diverse presentations – from fun, stressbuster-type displays to informative, thought-provoking exhibits. This fall’s “catwalk” gallery featuring the t-shirts of … Read More
Holodomor exhibit in Douglass Library
Douglass Library is currently hosting an exhibit to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, the great Ukrainian famine in the 1930s in the rotunda and in the Mabel Smith … Read More
What is “Books We Read” Again?
Back in 2019, little did we know that a small library’s reading initiative would survive its first semester, let alone that it would grow into a campus-wide program at Rutgers-New … Read More