Books They Write – Celebration of Scholarship 2023
The Books We Read team is planning to attend the Celebration of Scholarship at New Brunswick Libraries this year again in Douglass Library on Wednesday, November 8, 2022 from 4 … Read More
The Books We Read team is planning to attend the Celebration of Scholarship at New Brunswick Libraries this year again in Douglass Library on Wednesday, November 8, 2022 from 4 … Read More
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
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
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
Here at Books We Read, we have shared several banned book posts over the past few weeks to celebrate Banned Books Week 2023. In addition, the New Brunswick Libraries (NBL) … Read More
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
Do I get annoyed every time I read a banned books list? Yes. For me it is particularly frustrating to see banned and challenged children’s books. Several of my favorites … Read More
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
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
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