Halloween 2023: Processing the World Around Us
Last year Ian Dykstra introduced a new genre – horror fiction – to Books We Read fans in his post Halloween Horror, posing the question: “there’s enough horror in the … Read More
Judit Hajnal Ward
From the Archives: 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 scholarly and popular publications they need to cite when their paper … Read More
Clothesline Project Indoors: Survivors Past and Present Exhibit @ Douglass
If you are walking around in Douglass Library in these days, you will see an astonishing, colorful display of T-shirts in the “catwalk,” i.e., the elevated exhibit platform on the … Read More
Rutgers Students Stand with the Banned
Banned Books Students Read Following up on my surprising discovery about the volume of banned and challenged books Rutgers students read, I decided to make banned books the focus of … Read More
Banned Books We Read
When I was selecting the best mini posters submitted by SEBS students as their library instruction class assignment, the number of banned and challenged books Rutgers students picked took me … Read More
Banned Books Week 2023
Save the Date! Following the tradition established by the American Library Association (ALA) to observe Banned Books Week in each fall, we will dedicate a few posts to challenged and … 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
Death is Not the End: Writing in Style
Ever wonder why you see a book by a beloved author published under a different name? Following up on Death is not the end: legacy titles in mystery, let’s look … Read More
From the Archives: Hollywood Squares from Rutgers
If you have never heard of Hollywood Squares, you are not alone. The catchy title refers to a popular game show based on tic-tac-toe that ran on NBC from the mid … Read More
New Jersey Authors: Harlan Coben
Did you have a favorite plush toy or blanket that you’d drag along with you everywhere as a child? Familiarity provides comfort and reduces the anxiety we are bound to … Read More