Grab a Pencil: Urban Sketching is Back!
Remember the Urban Sketching Project at Rutgers? Hosted by art librarian Megan Lotts in last November, this creative project invited students, faculty, and staff at Rutgers to grab an pencil or … Read More
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Staff Picks: Intellectual Freedom Stories from a Shifting Landscape
As I was fixing up a summary of the latest library challenge in Wyoming in Hungarian for KIT, a weekly newsletter on libraries, information, and society, it dawned on me how … Read More
Spook: Scare Yourself Silly this Halloween
Although ghoulishly entertaining, Spook is ironically not about the supernatural happenings of the spirit world as its title eerily suggests. Instead, famed science writer Mary Roach takes a fresh approach … Read More
Staff Picks: The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
When I was asked to join the “Books We Read” team, I thought nothing of writing about the book I was reading at the time (sounds like the objective, right?). … Read More
From the Archives: Hungarian Refugee Scientists at Rutgers (Part 2)
-Continued from Hungarian Refugee Scientists at Rutgers (Part 1) Language instruction Students had a full schedule. In addition to classes 9 to 4 on weekdays, they had evening programs and … Read More
From the Archives: Hungarian Refugee Scientists at Rutgers (Part 1)
Note: Around October 23, the anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, I can’t help feeling proud to remember how Rutgers stepped up and helped a small group of Hungarian scholars … Read More
Shelf Help: Bibliotherapy in Libraries
You might have noticed books on a shelf in your public library labelled “bibliotherapy.” You might have read about a bibliotherapy display in a bookstore. What the heck is this … Read More
Unlikable Characters
Does a book’s main character always have to be likable? If you think back on your favorite main characters, many were almost surely ones you liked, or at least admired … Read More
Reading Middlemarch
This post starts with a confession: Middlemarch, by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans), is widely considered one of the greatest novels ever written––certainly the odds-on favorite for … Read More
The Banned Books of Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives
Books have been banned, challenged, censored, or even burned by organizations, schools, and parent organizations for a lot of reasons. What defines a banned or a challenged book? A banned book … Read More