ACRL-NJ/NJLA-CUS – How are they related and why should I join?

By Elizabeth Leonard

By Darren Sweeper

“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or Tragedy; or, perhaps both”.

                                                                                                                                                         James Madison

They Say / I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing

By Jennifer Hunter

Scholarship as Conversation is one of the frames in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, and also an important corner stone in the field of rhetoric and composition, particularly as it applies to teaching undergraduate students how to write.

By Sharon Whitfield

Mind mapping tools allows students to map a complex set of relationships. Through the mapping process, students are more likely to understand, remember and analyze those relationships (Davies, 2011). There is also empirical evidence that demonstrates that maps allow information to be more usable and more easily processed (Davies, 2011). Mapping has been used in a variety of disciplines, including finance, economics, marketing and medicine (Davies, 2011).

By Cara Berg, Leslin Charles, Heather Dalal, & Amanda Piekart, on behalf of the User Education Committee

The members of the User Education Committee (User Ed) are delighted to share their current experiences with the Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education in this themed issue of the ACRL-NJ/NJLA CUS newsletter. Below is a description of the activities of our members regarding the Framework since it was adopted by ACRL.

Background

By Mary Mallery

The NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Marketing and Communications Committee is five years old!  To celebrate, the members of the Committee suggested that I write up a brief history to review how we started and what we are working on today.

By Sara Keegan

By Katie Maricic Cohen

The NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Marketing and Communications Committee wants to spread our organization’s message in a way that will reach you- our ever loyal members- NJ academic librarians. Back in October, we asked you to tell us how you use social media. You responded and now we are planning to meet your needs!

By Elizabeth Leonard

 By Cynthia Coulter

The winner of the 2015 NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Research Award is Jane Johnson Otto, of Rutgers University Libraries, for her publication, “University Faculty Describe their Use of Moving Images in Teaching and Learning and their Perceptions of the Library's Role in that Use,” found in College & Research Libraries, 75(2), 115-144.