Project Timeline

A lot has happened since we launched Books We Read at the Chang Science Library in August, 2019. Highlights in reverse chronological order:

SUMMER 2023

• Author Talk with Javier Zamora

SPRING 2023

• New in Books We Write series: Becky Diamond
• Focus on mental health and bibliotherapy
• New series: True Crime and Crime Fiction
• New topic: Archives
• New topic: Food history

FALL 2022

• Books They Read: miniposter exhibit in Douglass, Chang, and Art
• New topic: Music Books
• Focus on short stories
• Books They Write: promoting Faculty Authors event
• New series: Science Fiction
• Banned or Challenged: observing Banned Books Week

SUMMER 2022

• A Hungarian author from two perspectives: Szilárd Borbély, Kafka’s son
• Summer Tales 2022
• New Guide: Summer Tales 2022
• Meet the Author: Julie Otsuka
• New Series: How We Read (contributions from NBL librarians, staff, and students)
• New Series: So you want to go to Grad School

SPRING 2022

• SEBS PASS posters “Books We Read”
• Staff Picks from the Recreational Reading Collection
• Writing & Citing in the Science Communication series
• New in Books We Write series: Stephanie Bartz
• Recreational Reading LibGuide updated, new books coming soon
• Byrne seminar on Marijuana with “weed reads”
• Digital Alcohol Studies Archives: access to books and more

FALL 2021

• New topics: food books, baking, and music
• Recreational Reading LibGuide from Books We Read, taking over the collection
• Introducing the New Brunswick Libraries RecRead Collection
• Bibliotherapy: Shelf Help, posts on Bibliotherapy,
• New Bibliotherapy Guide
• Banned Books Week and follow up : blog posts, co-hosted read-out with flash talks
• New series: interviews with authors of Books We Write: Megan Lotts and Judit H. Ward

SUMMER 2021 

• Books that heal: Bibliotherapy workshop for the NBL Wellness Group
• Graphic Design Workshop for the NBL Learning Community: see image galleries
• Summer reading recommendations (continued)
  Holiday Reads
  Staff Picks
• Meet the Author: Natalie Díaz
• Meet the Author: Carmen Maria Machado
• Summer Tales 2021 with Summer Session
• New Guide: Summer Tales 2021
• New galleries
  Art Librarian’s designs
  One-minute designs- New Jersey by Janet Evanovich

SPRING 2021

• Poetry Month – a whole month dedicated to poetry
• New guide: Books We Read: Poetry
• Graphic Design Workshop – creativity and fun
• Science Communication
• Books for children:
  Covid-19 Books for Children
  Reflection: International Youth Literature Collection
• Book recommendations for a stay-at-home spring break:
  Spring Break Responsibly
  Spring Break Reads
  Spring Break World Tour
• Revisiting ”Reading for Recovery” (project at the Center of Alcohol Studies Library in 2015-2016)
• Books We Read in Numbers  (statistics, most popular posts, resource types)

FALL 2020

• Tales We Read online semester reading program
• Banned Books Week (with SCARLA, LISSA, and SC&I Alumni Association)
• Citation Workshop for Work/Study Student Development Series
• Urban Sketching (promoting a month-long project hosted by NBL Art Library and SEBS Department of Landscape Architecture)
• Citizen Science project and workshop
• Science Communication: Cite Right series
• Holiday Reads book recommendations
• Stressbusters: Canva Workshop, Virtual Pet Therapy

SUMMER 2020

• Summer Tales Virtual Reading Club (with Summer Session)
• Summer Tales reading guide
• Meet the Author: Joyce Carol Oates
• Summer reading recommendations
  Holiday Reads
  Staff Picks
• Summer with New Jersey authors

SPRING 2020

• SEBS Little Free Library outside the Chang Science Library (progress, pictures and video)
• New Guide: Books We Read Online with eBook recommendations
• New blog posts, including Corona Reads and Staff Picks
• Creating online communities:
  RUGRAT Rutgers University Groups Reading Alone Together
  Cook Reads  Anyone on the Cook Campus
• Rutgers resources for remote work/study: eBooks, audiobooks, streaming videos, newspapers
• Reading Harry Potter at Chang in February, 2020 (story, pictures)

FALL 2019

• Reading Harry Potter at Chang in September, 2019 (story, pictures)
• Short story discussion sessions (Fall 2019)
• Science Café at SEBS moved to the Chang Science Library (pictures)
• Poster gallery: Fall 2019 Academic Mentoring course

SUMMER 2019

• Book recommendations from the collection of the Rutgers University Libraries
• Downloadable sample book discussion material
• Poster galleries featuring mini-posters
  created by SEBS students – Spring 2019 PASS course
  created by faculty
• Books We Read  – the original guide (print titles)