For the first we rolled out this 54 foot long petition from 1865. It was signed by 3,740 African Americans from South Carolina asking Congress “equal rights before the law" months after the Civil War. We need the public's help transcribing this historic treasure. 🧵

Let’s find one million Americans who love libraries by following our page and inviting your friends to join you! ✨🇺🇸💛📚🏫✨ #readers

Have you heard the Advisement Center's podcast yet? https://t.co/YsRuApqFex It's really fun!

Did you know you can get help from a librarian during all the hours the library is open? Come see us on the second floor, or call us at 201-200-3033, text us at 201-576-8072, e-mail us at libraryref@njcu.edu. or chat with us anytime! #askalibrary #libraryhelp

📌ANNOUNCED TODAY: New Jersey City University (@NJCUniversity) joins @Google's Grow with Google HSI Career Readiness Program. Through a $2M #grant from @HACUNews, the #careerreadiness initiative will help Latino students at 35 #HSIs.👏👏 Learn more here: https://t.co/BT4SrvqSWK

We have come to a time when the right to read is so under attack in this country that to be a librarian is to be an activist. For anyone who has ever doubted the needfulness of libraries and librarians in the 21st century, take heed!

Book of the Day: Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon. Available to NJCU faculty students and staff as an e-book at: https://t.co/J9Vk308VFf #readingisFUN #librarybook #bookoftheday

NEW: It’s every book lovers dream job! Dr. Carla Hayden (@LibnOfCongress) oversees the largest library in the WORLD - @librarycongress! Today, she joins Kate and Charlie Gibson for an all-new episode of “The Book Case.” LISTEN: https://t.co/Ho9ElpMzCk

If you missed our inspiring keynote conversation between Dr. Joanne Gabbin (@FuriousFlowerPC /JMU) & DEFCon co-PI @sunnygrrrl, it's now available for your viewing pleasure on the DEFCon YouTube channel!

Take a trip down memory lane to #JournalSquare in the 1950s courtesy of Bernie Heinzmann from the fantastic #JCOriginals Facebook group ‘We Grew Up in #JerseyCity’. The 1954 American adventure film ‘Adventures of Hajji Baba’ was showing at the State Theater. #ThrowbackThursday

Happy birthday Malcolm X (who would have been 97 today). Why not mark the date by reading an e-book about him? Try this done: https://t.co/lz1J6HwopJ #MalcolmXDay #bookoftheday #botd

How can we teach students to evaluate sources? This is how:

Today is the long-awaited #lastdayofthespringsemester!! Congratulations to everyone for making it through.

Need help finding scholarly, peer-reviewed articles? Text a librarian at 201-576-8072 or e-mail us at libraryref@njcu.edu. We love to hear from students! #askalibrarian #onlinelibrarian #virtualreferencedesk

Book of the day: The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women by Catherine E. McKinley. Available to NJCU students, faculty and staff at https://t.co/uvy5kNdHnP. #botd #librarybooks #readingisFUNdamental

Book of the Day: American bards: Walt Whitman and other unlikely candidates for national poet by Edward Keyes Whitley https://t.co/1zRLkhzpOD available as an ebook to NJCU faculty, staff and students. #ebooks #bookoftheday #botd

Happy #EarthDay! In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission gave us our first good view of the whole Earth. This iconic photograph, often called the Blue Marble, is one of the most widely distributed images in existence: https://t.co/zRCKx3PlMd

Protect your family. Protect your community. Protect our earth. #EarthDay 🌎💚

Book of the Day: W. E. B. Dubois's data portraits: visualizing Black America: the color line at the turn of the 20th century. Available online to NJCU faculty, staff, students at

When it comes to climate change, time really is running out. Earth Day is a reminder that if we pledge to do our part and then follow through on those commitments, we can help preserve and protect our planet for future generations.