RUGRAT

Rutgers University Groups Reading Alone Together

Are you alone? Are you reading? So are we.

This site aims to channel both the creativity and the anxiety of social distancing into recreational reading. As responsible members of the Rutgers community staying home to stop the spread of COVID-19, we hope to build and strengthen virtual groups by developing engaging activities online, drawing attention to electronic resources, and creating new communities around books.

If you missed our related “corona reads” blog posts, please read our thoughts on “books in the time of corona,” classics that seem relevant for the current moment.

Read a variety of blog posts tagged as RUGRAT.

Read Ebooks

• How to find ebooks from Rutgers Libraries
• Tips and more guidance in a research guide (LibGuide) on ebooks
• The BWR collection of titles available online
• Ebooks from the Internet Archive that you can “borrow” or download for free
• Virtual Little Free Library (see also Facebook page)

Listen to Audiobooks

• The BWR collection of titles
• Audiobooks from the Internet Archive
• Audiobooks from Librivox
• A list of free options from miscellaneous web sites

Color Our Collection with Archives at Home

• Color Our Collections @Rutgers — download sheets

More from Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives

• Archival material for classes and fun: interview-series with Tara Maharjan
• Archives At Home: Fun
• Archives at Home: Maps & Newspapers
• Archives at Home: Exhibits
• Archives at Home: Collections

Play games

• Which Rutgers Library are you
  More coming soon from BuzzFeed!
• Rutgers Library Quiz on Kahoot!
  More coming soon!

Read/write about reading

• Books We Read Blog roll

Talk with others

• Discussion threads on Twitter