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{"title":"Rutgers Manuscript Sources Relating to the African-American Community in New Jersey","authors":"R. Becker","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V56I1.1748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V56I1.1748","url":null,"abstract":"Special Collections and University Archives at the Rutgers University Libraries holds several manuscript collections relating to the AfricanAmerican exper ience in N e w Jersey. O n e of the earliest holdings is a volume of minutes of the African Association of N e w Brunswick. T h e minute book dates from 1817 to 1824. T h e Association was founded to provide funds for a school in Parsippany, N. J . , organized by the Presbyterian Synod of N e w York and N e w Jersey. T h e goal of the school was to educate \"Young M e n of Colour to be Teacher s and Preachers to People of Colour within theses States and elsewhere.\" Included in the volume are the Association's constitution, a list of subscribers, receipts, certificates of permission to join, and texts of addresses delivered before the Association by Jeremiah Gloucester of Philadelphia (January 1, 1820) and Augustavus Cesar (January 1, 1821). Rutgers also holds the records of the N e w Brunswick Colonization Society which include its minutes , memberships lists, and constitutions. T h e Society was active in 1838-1839 and revived in 1853-1854. T h e r e are collections that relate directly to slavery in N e w Jersey as well as to the lives of free African-Americans during the pre-Civil War period. T h e records of M i d d l e s e x County , N. J . , include a vo lume of slave manumiss ion records, 1800-1825, and a vo lume recording the births of Black children in the county, 1804-1844. T h e manumission register's entries include the name (and somet imes age) of the freed slave, the date of manumission, and the name and residence of the person registering the manumission. T h e volume is indexed by the name of person freed. Entries in the birth register include the name and sex of the child, the mother's given name, the name of the person reporting the birth, and the dates that the birth was reported and recorded. T h e Peter Still Papers (Burlington County, N . J . ) include correspondence, 1850-1875, relating to the purchase of his wife and family held as slaves in Alabama and to the publication of his biography. T h e collection also includes a Still family genealogy, 1798-1821.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"48 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120864478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Swinburne at Princeton","authors":"M. Sherry","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V55I2.1727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V55I2.1727","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126648103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Consumption in Post War America: An Interview with Lizabeth Cohen","authors":"Lisa Kennenberg, L. Phillips, L. Cohen","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1736","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114795419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Buyer Beware: The Consumers' Research Archives at the Rutgers University Libraries","authors":"Gregory L. Williams","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1737","url":null,"abstract":"Today, consumer testing and rating guides are taken for granted. It is not unusual for a shopper to take a copy of Consumer Reports to a stereo or appliance store, or consult any number of specialized consumer publications before purchasing a particular product. Prior to 1927, there were no organizations dedicated to helping consumers choose between competing brands of products. Frederick J. Schlink, born in Peoria, Illinois, in 1891, pioneered the effort to research and disseminate unbiased product information to consumers. Trained as an engineer, Schlink had acquired extensive experience in the field of standardization at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, DC, and with the American Standards Association in New York City. He combined his interest in the standardization of products created for mass production, a disdain for bogus advertising claims, and a background in testing products to form the Consumers' Club in New York City in 1927. With the publication of his book Your Money s Worth (co-authored with Stuart Chase) in the same year, public sentiment was stirred to demand a consumer testing organization. This book exposed the excesses of advertising and the hazards of shoddy products, and called for independent product testing. The overwhelming response to the Your Money's Worth led to the publication of the first consumer rating bulletin entitled The Consumers ' Club Commodity List. The first issue of The List was published on October 27, 1927. In the introduction, Schlink explained that The List was the first step toward giving the small consumer access to critical information about everyday products. The format of the bulletin included two columns subdivided by various products. Products endorsed by The List were filed directly under a column \"A\" list; those commodities receiving a negative mark from the compilers were placed in the \"B\" list. No direct testing of","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129447566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bibliography of Literature on Women in Agriculture at the Rutgers University Libraries","authors":"Lill Maman","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V55I1.1746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V55I1.1746","url":null,"abstract":"The Rutgers University Libraries' largest collection on women in agriculture is located at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library. Douglass Library serves students and faculty at Douglass College, the largest women's college in the United States, and Cook College, the Land Grant College of New Jersey, and the Mason Gross School of the Arts. The collection on women in agriculture includes profiles on farm women, anthropological studies and case studies, particularly from the Third World. Most of this literature is written by women. When Ester Boserup, an economist, published her book, Women in Economic Development m 1970, she was one of the first to focus on the relationship between women's role and economic development. Boserup documented the connections between certain land use patterns and agricultural techniques and its relationship to division of labor based upon gender. Experts on both colonial and contemporary agriculture have viewed crop production as being a male oriented task because that reflected the traditional European concepts. Consequently, women in underdeveloped countries were rarely involved in the development process. They were not permitted to participate in training programs for agricultural modernization and development and their contributions to agriculture have been ignored. Rural women were deprived of their right to land ownership as a result of land reforms instituted by male oriented European administrators. Boserup's study initiated a considerable amount of debate and research on the participation of women in world agriculture. The books cited in the bibliography reflect women's roles and contributions to agriculture in the industrialized countries and the developing countries. These books have been acquired for the Douglass collection to serve the disciplines of agriculture, rural sociology and women's studies. A growing role for women in agriculture is anticipated in the future as the struggle for women's rights grows and receives more serious consideration in the world arena.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129809366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Table of Contents for volume 57","authors":"A. Anonymous","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1733","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130016170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cover for volume 57","authors":"A. Anonymous","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1732","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"84 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113982936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE LIBRARY OF THE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND LABOR RELATIONS AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: A RESOURCE TO NEW JERSEY AND BEYOND","authors":"Jeffrey Katz","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V57I1/2.1741","url":null,"abstract":"The School (formerly the Institute) of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) was founded in 1947 by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature, to \"foster harmony between labor and management.\" Its mission is to improve knowledge and practice within the areas of labor relations, industrial relations, and human resource management. The School is composed of three departments: Human Resource Management, Labor Studies and Employment Relations, and Library and Information Services. The Rutgers undergraduate colleges offer a B.A. in Labor Studies; and the School awards the Master's Degree in Labor and Industrial Relations, the M.S. in Human Resource Management, and the Ph.D. in Industrial Relations and Human Resources. In 1991, the School also began offering the M.S. in Human Resource Management in cooperation with the Singapore Institute of Management. The SMLR Library acts as a center for acquiring, organizing and disseminating information on labor, industrial relations and human resource management. Its mission is to: 1) provide services and develop collections in support of the School's credit programs; 2) provide library and information services to the School's continuing education (non-credit) programs; 3) maintain the School's archives and work cooperatively with Special Collections/Archives at the Rutgers University Alexander Library in New Brunswick in obtaining labor management archival materials; and 4) provide broad-based reference, research, and referral services to scholars, labor and industrial relations practitioners, and to workers throughout New Jersey and beyond.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127711426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: A Consideration of Afro-American Historical Scholarship","authors":"C. A. Price","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V56I1.1729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V56I1.1729","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"15 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120907967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Notes from the Library: Manuscripts Acquisitions","authors":"Albert C. King","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V55I1.1747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V55I1.1747","url":null,"abstract":"The papers of art critic, biographer and novelist Janet Hobhouse (1948-1991) have been added to the Libraries' manuscripts holdings. A native of New York City, Hobhouse was graduated from Oxford University in 1969. She subsequently worked as an editor and also wrote articles on art topics for several magazines. Her first novel, Nellie without Hugo, appeared in 1982 and was hailed as the work of a talented new writer. Her subsequent books Dancingin the Dark (1983) and November {1986) received generally favorable reviews as well. These three novels, set variously in New York and London, explore conflicts between freedom and security in the context of personal relationships. A fourth novel, published posthumously, is the autobiographical Furies, released in 1993. Nonfiction books by Hobhouse include Everybody Who Was Anybody (1975), a biography of Gertrude Stein, and The Bride Stripped Bare: The Artist and the Female Nude in the Twentieth Century (1988). Present in the Hobhouse papers are notes, manuscripts of writings, reviews, correspondence, photographs, appointment books and other documents totaling approximately twelve cubic feet in size. Completing the collection are family photographs and papers of the author's mother, Frances Hobhouse, a New York-based sculptor. Theatrical papers donated by Paul Foster (RC '54) reflect three decades of his activities as a playwright. Foster is a former president of La Mama E.T.C., the off-off-Broadway venue where many of his earlier plays debuted or were staged. The papers received document the full range of Foster's experimental theater output, from his early one-act plays such as \"Hurrah for the Bridge\" and \"Balls,\" through the internationally acclaimed Tom Paine and Elizabeth /. The approximately 21 cubic feet of papers consist of a biographical file, 1964-1989; calendars, 1972-1990; address books, 1969-1984 and undated; correspondence, 1963-1993, including letters exchanged with American and European actors, directors, producers, theatrical agents, publishers, and foundation","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133438678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}