Gary A. Golden, M.L.S., M.A., Ph.D., Director
Susan J. Beck, M.L.S., M.A., Associate Professor
Vibiana Bowman, M.S.L.S., Assistant Professor
Jean D. Crescenzi, M.L.S., M.A., Emerita
Theodora Haynes, M.L.S., M.A., M.B.A., Associate Professor
John Maxymuk, M.L.S., Associate Professor
James D. Nettleman, M.L.S., M.S., Associate Professor
Julie Still, M.L.S., M.A., Associate Professor
Donna Wertheimer, M.L.S., Visiting Assistant Professor
E. Parker Worley, M.L.S., M.A., Director Emeritus
Reference Services: 856/225-6034
Circulation Services: 856/225-6033
The Paul Robeson Library contains more than a half-million
bibliographic items. Subscribing to approximately 700 print periodical
and serial titles, the collection includes nearly 220,000 monographs,
210,000 pieces of microform, and 51,000 bound periodicals. Students
have computer access to more than 100 online indexes, approximately
12,000 full text journals and newspapers, and almost 100,000 full text
monographs published since 1600. These online resources are available
anywhere on campus as well as from remote locations via the web using
proxy server authentication.
Local holdings of the library,
which provide primary service for all schools on the campus (except
law), are supplemented by the several million volumes contained in the
other units of the Rutgers University Libraries system located in New
Brunswick and Newark. Access to these collections is available through
IRIS (Integrated Rutgers Information System) on terminals located in
the Paul Robeson Library, through campus network terminals, and through
remote authenticated web browsers. In addition, students have access to
the comparably sized collections of the Camden law library. Information
on holdings of non-Rutgers libraries is provided through RLIN, the
computerized bibliographic system of the Research Libraries Group, as
well as through web access to local collections at such schools as
Temple and the University of Pennsylvania. Materials from Rutgers and
non-Rutgers libraries can be obtained on loan (books) or by photocopy
(articles) through the interlibrary loan service at no cost to the
requester. Articles are scanned and delivered to the requester`s
desktop. Library staff is available to provide assistance to
individuals in using these resources. In addition, the reference
librarians meet with classes to provide instruction in general library
use or in the literature of a specific discipline or topical area.
The library building provides seating for more than 800 students. The
building is wired for laptop connections at most desks, has some
wireless connectivity throughout the building, and microcomputers and
selected software are available for student use in an onsite lab
operated by the computing services department. Facilities are provided
for individual and group study, for the use of microfilm and other
micro texts, and for photo duplication of both hard copy and micro text
and the conversion of microfilm to disk or compact disk.
Library hours during the academic year, unless otherwise posted, are:
Monday-Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Hours normally are extended late in each term and during exams, and are
slightly reduced between terms and during summer school.
