Bibliotherapy

A guide for ideas how to find books to read for fun in the Recreational Reading Collection, which offers over 1,000 titles for pleasure reading to current Rutgers affiliates.

The original guide featuring mostly print titles. This guide will help you find reading material for fun in the collection hosted by Rutgers University Libraries, based on suggestions of students, faculty, and staff on the Cook Campus.

The online version, created during the pandemic, highlighting ebooks and how to locate them in the Rutgers Libraries collection and beyond.

A poetry appreciation guide provides information on how to locate and enjoy poems available for Rutgers users.

First hosted in 2020, the Summer Tales Book Club was launched to create virtual communities for students taking classes remotely promising short mental breaks from coursework. Sponsored by the New Brunswick Libraries and the Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University.

The second virtual summer book club in 2021 also offered poems to read and discuss. Sponsored by the New Brunswick Libraries and the Division of Continuing Studies at Rutgers University.

The R4R guide us geared towards those interested in the use of bibliotherapy, i. e., guided reading, for substance use problems. Sponsored by a Carnegie-Whitney grant from the American Library Association (2015-2016).

An online, semester-long program, Tales We Read was sponsored by the Chang Science Library of the New Brunswick Libraries and the Office of Academic Programs of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) .

A collection of book recommendations for various problems. From the University College Cork, Ireland.

A collection of resources for pleasure reading, including recommendations for therapeutic use. From the Manchester Metropolitan University Library.

Resources to read and play as therapy. From Texas State University Libraries.

Resources and ideas from the Australian College of Physical Education.