From the Archives: 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
Judit Hajnal Ward
Soul Food: Honey, Cake, & Latkes
Do you consider recipes thought-provoking? Have you ever read a cookbook from cover to cover? Can one really cry over a recipe collection? Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the … Read More
Brave New World, by ChatGPT
Joining the club of the ChatGPT discussion, what’s a better experiment for a blog post on a book than Brave New World? As college professors and grade school teachers express their … Read More
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
Mystery in the Wild
How come this topic never occurred to us any earlier? After all, we are writing these blog posts for students interested in biology, the environment, plants and animals, forests and … Read More
Books That Heal On the Road
Following up on a previous post On the Road: Bibliotherapy for Hungarians Abroad, I’m sharing what can be gleaned from a full semester bibliotherapy group session with fellow Hungarians living abroad. … Read More
In Their Words: More Than Just Books
What Students Say About the Library Following up on the Books They Read post, miniposters SEBS students created during their library session as part of their Academic Mentoring course in Fall 2022, … Read More
Books They Read: Miniposters by Rutgers Students
Library instruction sessions can be boooooring! Unless students feel the urge, pun intended, to pay attention (paper due, a strict course instructor is watching, the librarian is rolling their eyes, … Read More
Superheroes Among Us: Solito by Javier Zamora
We hear you, Chepito! This would be my message to the author of one of the most remarkable books published this fall on a topic that might divide the readers … Read More
Death is Not the End: Legacy Titles in Mystery
Poodle Springs sounds like an intriguing title alone. The eighth novel in the famous Philip Marlowe series has two authors listed, Raymond Chandler, the original writer of the series, and … Read More