Meetings

All meetings take place in the SCILS student lounge; pizza will be provided (thanks to an anonymous donor!). Please join us, anyone with an interest in rare books/collections is welcome! And don't worry about being late/leaving early, we're happy to have you for however long you can be there.

• First Fall 2008 Source meeting Thursday Sept 25th at 5:30.  All are welcome!

Archived Meeting Minutes

Spring 2008

• Meeting Minutes, May 5, 2008 PDF
• Meeting Minutes, April 3, 2008 PDF
• Meeting Minutes, March 11, 2008 PDF
• Meeting Minutes, February 7, 2008 PDF

Fall 2007

• Meeting Minutes, December 6, 2007 PDF
• Meeting Minutes, November 7, 2007 PDF
• Meeting Minutes, October 11, 2007 PDF
• Meeting Minutes, September 12, 2007 PDF

Summer 2007

• Meeting Minutes, July 23, 2007 PDF

Fall 2006

• Meeting Minutes, October 17, 2006 HTML | WORD | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, September 19, 2006 HTML | WORD | PDF

Spring 2006

• Meeting Minutes, April 18, 2006 HTML | WORD | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, March 29, 2006 HTML | WORD | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, February 21, 2006 - Due to a schedule conflict, no minutes are available.
• Meeting Minutes, January 25, 2006 HTML | WORD | PDF

Fall 2005

• Meeting Minutes, November 15, 2005 HTML | WORD | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, October 18, 2005 HTML | WORD | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, September 13, 2005 HTML | WORD | PDF

Summer 2005

• Meeting Minutes, July 13, 2005 HTML | WORD | PDF

Spring 2005

• Meeting Minutes, April 26, 2005 HTML | WORD | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, March 29, 2005 HTML | WORD
• Meeting Minutes, Feb. 22, 2005 HTML | WORD
• Meeting Minutes, Jan. 26, 2005 HTML | WORD

Fall 2004

• Meeting Minutes, Dec. 6, 2004 HTML | WORD
• Meeting Minutes, Nov. 1, 2004 HTML | WORD
• Meeting Minutes, Oct. 4, 2004 HTML | WORD
• Meeting Minutes, Sept 13, 2004 HTML | WORD

Fall 2003-Spring 2004

• Meeting Minutes, Apr. 19, 2004 HTML
• Meeting Minutes, Mar. 1, 2004 HTML
• Meeting Minutes, Feb. 2, 2004 HTML
• Meeting Minutes, Oct. 2, 2003 HTML
• Meeting Minutes, Sep. 11, 2003: HTML

Fall 2002-Spring 2003

• Meeting Minutes, Apr. 28, 2003: HTML | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, Mar. 10, 2003: HTML | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, Feb. 04, 2003: HTML | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, Sept. 17, 2002: HTML | WORD

Fall 2001-Spring 2002

• Meeting Minutes, Feb. 13, 2002: HTML | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, Nov. 28, 2001: HTML | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, Oct. 23, 2001: HTML | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, Sept. 24, 2001: HTML | PDF

Fall 2000-Spring 2001

• Meeting Minutes, April 16, 2001: HTML | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, March 6, 2001: HTML | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, Jan. 30, 2001: HTML | PDF
• Meeting Minutes, Dec. 8, 2000: HTML | PDF
• Founding Meeting Minutes, Nov. 1, 2000: HTML | PDF

Past Events and Activities

     2008

• Art Library Behind-the-Scenes Tour at Thursday, April 3rd at 4:00pm, led by Sara Harrington
  
  
• Marilyn Symmes, the Director of the Morse Research Center for Graphic Artsand Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Zimmerli Art Museum down the street has graciously agreed to give us a behind-the-scenes tour on Wednesday March 26th at 3 PM.

Colloquia:

• On April 6, 2005 SOURCE hosted a colloquium on finding, getting, and enjoying a job in Special Collections, Rare Books, and Archives. The speakers were SCILS graduates who currently work in these fields: J. Fernando Pena, Librarian at the Grolier Club in New York; Claire McGuire, Assistant Archivist at Drexel University College Medicine Archives; Ana Ramirez-Luhrs, Reading Room/Reference Librarian for the Gilder Lehrman Collection at the New York Historical Society; and, Matthew Lyons, Senior Manuscripts Librarian at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

• On Wednesday, April 23, 2003 we held a colloquium panel of five SCILS graduates working in archival related fields. The panelists each shared their experiences in school, networking, getting their perspective jobs, and what they are currently working on, then there was time for Q&A from the audience.
  
  Here are some of the links to projects they are working on or the organizations with which they are associated:

Matthew Lyons - Historical Society of Pennsylvania http://www.hsp.org/

Julia Telonidis - New York Public Library http://picturecollection.nypl.org

Matt Brown-New Jersey Institute of Technology http://www.library.njit.edu/ http://www.library.njit.edu/etd/ http://www.library.njit.edu/archives/

Claire McGuire - Haverford College http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/ http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/

Fernando Pena - Grolier Club http://www.grolierclub.org/
Also, if you are interested in doing an internship at the Grolier Club, contact Fernando at fpena@grolierclub.org.

• A group of LIS students (and former students) present their research on reading, readers, and reading genres and one piece of research in library history at the 2003 annual New Jersey Library Association (NJLA) meeting.

  Here is the web page of that presentation made by Professor Marija Dalbello. http://scils.rutgers.edu/~dalbello/NJLA2003.html

• April 10, 2002. Sara Harrington (Art Librarian, RUL), Dr. Ferris Olin (Head, Margery Somers Foster Center/Curator, Women's Artist Series, Douglass Library), and Kristen St. John (Conservator, Special Collections and University Archives, RUL) spoke on the topic of art in libraries and archives.

• November 27, 2001: Thomas Frusciano (University Archivist, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries) and Peter Wosh (Director of the Archival Management Program at NYU) spoke on the topic of archival education.

• April 5, 2001: Panel of recent SCILS graduates (Matthew Lyons, Daniel Noonan, Fernando Pena).

• November 29, 2000: Our first official event was a lecture by Marija Dalbello, "Historical collections in the digital environment: The information mosaic model of a virtual environment."

  
  

Trips:

• Tour of the Grolier Club in New York City with SOURCE founder and Grolier librarian, J. Fernando Pena, on April 13, 2007.
  
• Tour of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania with former SOURCE member Matthew Lyons, and of the the Penn Museum and Library in Philadelphia on March 20, 2007.
  
• SOURCE and LISSA tour of the Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) high-density shelving facility at Princeton University on February 16, 2007.
  
• Tour of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City on Friday, December 8, 2006.
  
• Tour of Rutgers University Special Collections and Archives with University Archivist Tom Frusciano and Preservationist Tim Corlis on November 16, 2006.
  
  
• Tour of the NJ bindery Ocker & Trapp on Nov. 18, 2005.
  
  
• Tour of the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Nov. 20, 2004. View photo.
  
  
• Tour of the Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives on April 14th 2004! For report CLICK HERE!
  
  
• Tour of the AXA Financial/Equitable Archives on Friday Mar 5th 2004 at 1:00pm. For report and photos click HERE!
  
  
• Tour of the Ocker and Trapp Library Bindery In Emerson, NJ on Friday Nov 14th 2003 at 1:00pm. For report and photos click HERE!
  
  A graduate speaking of the tour in April of 2001
  to the bindery said "The Ocker and Trapp tour
  was hands down the best one I went on while at
  Scils."
    -Claire McGuire, SCILS Graduate and Founding Member of Source.
  
  
• Tours of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Libraries and Archives and the Archives of the Princeton Theological Seminary scheduled for Friday, Oct 17th 2003.
  For full report and photos click HERE
  
  
• March 18, 2003: Tour of Free Library of Philadelphia's Rare Book Department and Conservation Lab. (Report by Lisa Coats: HTML | PDF | Pictures)
  
  
• December 6, 2002: Tour of the New Jersey State Archives and the New Jersey State Museum.
  
  
• April 12, 2002: Tour of libraries at Columbia University, NYC.
  
  
• December 6, 2001: Tour of several libraries at Columbia University, NYC, including the Butler Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the University Archives & Columbiana Library. (Report by Laura Poll: HTML | PDF)
  
  
• November 15, 2001: Trip to Guggenheim Institutional Archives and the Grolier Club.
  
  
• October 15, 2001: Trip to Princeton University Libraries and Archives.
  
  
• May 11, 2001: Library of Congress and the Smithsonian's Dibner Library, Washington, D.C. (Co-sponsored with LISSA, the Library and Information Science Students Association) (Report by Laura Poll: HTML | PDF)
  
  
• April 6, 2001: Ocker & Trapp Library Bindery, Emerson, N.J.
  
  
• March 23, 2001: Edison National Historical Site, West Orange, N.J. (Report by Laura Poll: HTML | PDF

Informal Speakers:

• October 7, 2006: Ian Bogus, Tim Corlin, and Chris Murray led a book making workshop for SCILS students. View photos.


• October 8, 2005: Ian Bogus, Laura Ruttum, and Chris Murray led a book making workshop for SCILS students. View photos.


• October 22, 2002: Kristen St. John, Conservator of Rutgers University's Special Collections and University Archives, led a book construction workshop for SCILS' students and alumni.
  
  
• SOURCE Meeting, November 28, 2001: Tom Glynn, reference librarian at Alexander Library, spoke about his research in library history.

Events at Which SOURCE has Spoken:

• Rutgers Art History Graduate Student Organization, February 5, 2002: Laura Poll made a presentation on behalf of SOURCE.
  
  
• SCILS Alumni Association Meeting, November 15, 2001: Laura Poll made a presentation on behalf of SOURCE.