Special Programs and Events – Libraries

Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of Rutgers Jazz @Rutgers 250: Music, Art and the Written Word – March 2, 2016 Location: Rutgers University – Newark, Paul Robeson Center, Essex Room, 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Newark, NJ. 4:30 – 7:00pm. Reception followed at the nearby Dana Library Galleries across the Norman Samuels Plaza from the Robeson read more

10th Anniversary of the New Jersey Center for the Book, Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at the Zimmerli Museum on the Rutgers University Campus, New Brunswick, NJ A most fitting way to toast the past decade of the imaginative and innovative dimension that the New Jersey Center for the Book has brought to the literary landscape of New Jersey View photos read more

Twenty books were selected representative of notable fiction and non-fiction books for adults, young adults, and children published between the years of 1995 and 2005 either by a New Jersey author, about New Jersey, or using New Jersey locales. Posters were distributed statewide to libraries. The selected titles were: Margaret Brisco. Women in Transition: I am a Wanderer (2004: Publish read more

The Ninth Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium Styles of Collecting, Styles of The Book, The Ninth Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium: Syles of Collecting, Styles of the Book, will be held at the John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers-Newark, in Newark, NJ, on November 7, 2003. Styles will begin by looking at the underlying principles in the practice of read more