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Copyright Team

Janet Brennan Croft, Copyright Team Leader

The Copyright Team has two primary areas of responsibility:

  • providing internal copyright advice to New Brunswick Libraries administration, staff, and units
  • providing external copyright reference service and education to New Brunswick campus faculty, staff, students, and other users.

The Copyright Response Team is a mailing list that responds to reference questions from external users, and includes librarians who specialize in different aspects of copyright.

The Copyright Education Team develops and delivers copyright orientation and review programs for library staff and faculty and, in close cooperation with the Scholarly Communication Team, modules for the Scholarly Communication Road Show program.

Over the next year, the team plans to develop a menu of short modules on topics like general copyright law, fair use, author’s right, codes of best practices, classroom use of copyrighted material, and so on for the road show and other educational purposes.

Janet Brennan Croft is the Team Leader of the Copyright Team. The current members of the Copyright Team are Mei Ling Lo, Caryn Radick, Francesca Gianetti, Megan Lotts, Jon Sauceda, and Leslin Charles.

Special Collections and University Archives has a blog!

What Exit?, is a blog about New Jerseyana from Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries. The heart of our New Jersey holdings is the Sinclair New Jersey Collection, named for Donald Arleigh Sinclair, curator emeritus of Special Collections. It is the largest, most comprehensive collection of New Jersey materials in the state and one of the finest collections of state and local history in the country. The approximately 67,000 monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and serials in the collection cover broad subject areas.  Topics represented include state, county and municipal history, genealogy, religion, business, government, law, education, literature, medicine, agriculture, technology and bibliography. Due to its breadth and depth, the collection is an indispensable resource for research on any aspect of New Jersey, past or present.

From Dee

A day in the life of…NBL’s Library Director

Many hands, skills, ideas and collaborations are needed to keep New Brunswick Libraries moving forward. We are a large enough organization that almost none of us are aware of the roles each of us plays. I’d like to help change that by sharing typical, or snapshot, days of various NBL employees. When we each bring our best self to Rutgers, we create a truly special place. I started with a day of my own: Tuesday, November 6. What did I do? See below.

4:00 am: Rise

4:30 am: Begin a load of laundry

4:40 am: Morning workout routine

6:00 am: Complete workout, hang delicates

6:30 am: Leave house, go to polls

7:00 am: Vote, head to diner for breakfast

8:00 am: Arrive at work and prepare for day

9:30 am: Strategic planning interview

10:30 am: Budget meeting

11:30 am: HR meeting

1:00 pm: Strategic planning interview

3:00 pm: Special Libraries Association Executive Board call

4:00 pm: Rutgers University Aresty Center planning meeting

5:00 pm: Strategic planning data prep

6:00 pm: Head home

6:30 pm: Dinner, watch election returns & read email

9:00 pm: Time for sleep

I hope to reach out and highlight the days of many people across our organization. Would you like to volunteer? Let me know!

Cheers, Dee

The Missing Page is now here

We have seen the need for some time to have a better way of communicating with all of the NBL_all community, librarians and staff.  An easy-to-use and easy to keep up with mode of communication was missing.  But the Missing Page that we have been looking for has arrived.  This space can be used for all kinds of announcements, discussion, and feedback relevant to the activities of the New Brunswick Libraries.  May the Missing Page never absent itself again!

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