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Coming Soon: The New Libraries Homepage

You've spoken, and we've listened! Based on your feedback, we're making website improvements to enhance your online experience. On Monday, July 10, 2023, check out our redesigned homepage with new features such as direct access to key library services, a refreshed QuickSearch layout, faster access to library hours, and more!

Take a sneak peek at this link.

News

Libraries Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Alexander Library Renaming

On June 8, 1973, Rutgers University Library was renamed Archibald Stevens Alexander Library.

Alexander Library, located on Rutgers' College Avenue campus, is the oldest and largest of the Rutgers University libraries. It is the main social sciences and humanities library in New Brunswick and home to Special Collections and University Archives, the East Asian Library, the Digital Learning Commons, the Hatchery Innovation Studio, and the Libraries' administrative offices.

Libraries Celebrate Pride Month

Happy Pride Month! Join us in celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer pride.

We encourage you to explore the Libraries' transgender and LGBTQIA+ resources at libguides.rutgers.edu/trans. The Transgender Issues and Resources research guide showcases valuable material on transgender and LGBTQIA+ issues at Rutgers University Libraries and beyond, including the Babs Siperstein Humanities and Medicine Seminars.

Photo: Rutgers Health Sciences Libraries students display Pride Month selections at RWJ Library in Rutgers–New Brunswick.

NPR Features East Asian Librarian Tao Yang in Sino Monthly Article

Rutgers University Libraries' East Asian Librarian Tao Yang was recently featured in an NPR article about Sino Monthly, a New Jersey Chinese monthly magazine.

Yang, who maintains the Sino Monthly archives in the East Asian Library, discussed the magazine's significance as a historical record with reporter Mary Yang.

News 12 New Jersey Features the Institute of Jazz Studies' Count Basie Collection

News 12 New Jersey's Brian Donohue recently talked to archivist Elizabeth Surles about the Count Basie Family Papers and Artifacts at Rutgers University Libraries' Institute of Jazz Studies.

Watch the Positively New Jersey segment here. To learn more about the collection, please visit this link.

Events

On Exhibit at Robeson Library: Black Music Month

June is National Black Music Month, and Paul Robeson Library is proud to partner with the Rhythm and Blues Preservation Society of Atlantic City, New Jersey, on its inaugural nationwide academic library curation campaign that encourages diversity and inclusion by developing the study of African American Music Studies in colleges and universities.

The exhibit features Black music history books curated by Perry Thompson, the Society's founder and Executive Director, along with Rev. Dr. Sonja Elise Freeman ("Queen Diva"), the Society's Artist-in-Residence and Vice President of Marketing and Communications.

This exhibition will be on view through July 8, 2023.

Basic EndNote

Learn how to use EndNote, a citation management software to help you organize your citations and generate a bibliography in a snap. In this workshop, you will learn how to download EndNote, capture references from databases such as PubMed and Google Scholar, create a library, and, more importantly, use EndNote to help you cite references while writing a paper in Microsoft Word.

Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
Time: Noon–1:00 p.m.

Service Alert

Independence Day Closure

The Libraries will be closed on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in observance of Independence Day. We will resume regular hours on Wednesday, July 5.

We wish you a happy and safe July 4th weekend!

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