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
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
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
Registration is STILL open for our Author Talk Series, an event free and open to the public! Our guest, Javier Zamora, will discuss his New York Times best-selling book Solito … Read More
Registration is open to our Author Talk Series, an event free and open to the public! Our guest, Javier Zamora will discuss his New York Times best-selling book Solito with … Read More
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
I have a conflicted relationship with true crime. I go through phases of consuming it voraciously, reading books, listening to podcasts and binge watching mini-series. I will also take long … Read More