Rutgers Distinguished Professor Leah Price will deliver the 35th annual Louis Faugères Bishop III Lecture “Reading from Home: Book History in Pandemic Times,” on Thursday, March 25 at 5:00 p.m. … Read More
Note: we are reposting a series of pieces written to accompany the ALA-funded Reading for Recovery Project. The following was originally published in the December 2015 issue of the Information … Read More
Last semester, I was tasked with finding a short story for Tales We Read, the Fall 2020 semester recreational reading program at Rutgers – New Brunswick. I quickly realized I … Read More
Watching the snowfall in the freezing cold in New Jersey, one thinks fondly of the past summer, the time for audiobooks. Our corona reads book recommendations also included this format, … Read More
When I was very young, perhaps five or so, I remember that one of the major milestones in reading was starting to tackle “chapter books”: books divided into chapters. A … Read More
If you have some time this afternoon, why not catch an event with two award-winning authors and a leading literary critic, all of them (virtually) here at Rutgers? Acclaimed poet … Read More
Launched in August 2019, the Books We Read site will continue to serve the virtual Cook Campus in its fifth semester in Spring 2021. In addition to a brief timeline … Read More
Strapped for ideas how to engage students in the online classroom? Scrambling for methods and resources to maintain momentum? Enter book covers. A popular internet game called “Name That Book” … Read More
Members of the Rutgers University community in New Brunswick had a lot of fun in Fall 2020 by documenting their campus and daily life via Urban Sketching. This sentence, which … Read More
As I started writing about the Rutgers Urban Sketching project, I found myself wondering about the difference between sketching and drawing. Eventually, I turned to the dictionary, where I learned … Read More