From the President
By Leslin Charles
NJLA CUS/ACRL NJ Chapter President
It seems like spring has finally sprung! The unpredictability of winter did not deter our ACRL-NJ/NJLA CUS organization as we have kept forging ahead to influence our profession. Last newsletter, I aligned our work to three areas of the ACRL Plan for Excellence. To begin this piece, I will continue to highlight activities within the context of this Plan for Excellence.New Roles and Changing Landscapes: Academic and research library workforce effectively navigates change in higher education environments.
Guided by our Legislative Representative, Gary Marks, a Civic Engagement and Academic Libraries Roundtable Workshop has come to fruition. Thank you to the Marketing & Outreach Committee for sponsoring this event and to Raritan Valley Community College for hosting! Indeed, it is a hallmark of our profession, that we welcome such conversations in our spaces and that we are actively engaged in bringing them to the wider academic community.
The Assessment, Reference Services, and User Education Committees are collaborating to bring you another exciting and informative Summer Workshop. Information will be coming soon. We look forward to seeing you there.
As we work together to adopt aspects of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy, the User Education Committee has taken the lead in facilitating conversations within our section. On Friday April 13, we discussed the ACRL Framework Toolkit and are now better equipped to take the conversation outward to you. There is no doubt that we will continue to host such opportunities for all our members.
We look forward to seeing you at the NJLA Conference in Atlantic City! We will host Cheryl Middleton 2017-2018 ACRL President, who will speak at our CUS Luncheon on Friday. Also, please stop by our NJLA CUS table and say hello to us.
As an organization, we recognize the need to focus more on demonstrating the value of belonging to both ACRL and NJLA. While we have a very active section with our current membership, we encourage those who are ACRL members but not NJLA members to become more visible and share your voices and expertise in order to make us stronger. To this end, a survey will be forthcoming from our Marketing & Outreach team so we can determine what we can do to facilitate your increased participation in NJLA. Look out for the survey!
Clearly, we are striving for excellence in all our endeavors individually and as a collective. Our voices are loud, rational, and clear. Let’s continue to work together and to speak freely on matters dear to us as a profession.
Thank you for your membership. It has been an honor to serve as your President.
Leslin Charles is the NJLA CUS/ACRL NJ Chapter President. She is also the Instructional Design Librarian at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
2018 NJLA-CUS/ACRL-NJ Distinguished Service Award
The NJLA-CUS Executive Board is pleased to announce that Amanda Piekart, Director of Research and Instructional Services at Berkeley College, is the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Service Award. This honor, granted by the New Jersey Library Association’s College and University Section/Association of College and Research Libraries New Jersey chapter (NJLA-CUS/ACRL-NJ) is awarded annually to an individual who, by his or her outstanding contributions, has directly enriched the profession of librarianship in New Jersey. This award honors Amanda’s leadership on behalf of libraries, librarians and the library profession in New Jersey.
Amanda is a cutting-edge information literacy instructor with excellent project management and leadership skills whose continued commitment to service has enriched of our profession. In her role as Director of Research and Instructional Services at Berkeley College, Amanda provides leadership and strategic direction to the library’s instructional services program, and oversees the design, development and implementation of library instructional resources in order to increase the libraries capacity as academic partner in the development of engaged, critical and self-directed learners. Most recently, she completed her participation in the Berkeley College Middle States Self Study as the Co-Chair for Standard III: Design and Delivery of the Student Learning Experience. She recently has been invited to participate in the 2018 Leadership Berkeley Program. She also has been recognized by Berkeley College as a recipient of the Faculty of the Year Award in 2011 and 2016.
Amanda has been an active member of NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ and VALE NJ for the past eight years. She served as the Co-Chair for the VALE Conference Planning Committee for 2016, 2017 and 2018 Annual VALE User Conferences. With her leadership, the conference has been delivered unhitched, even with the challenges confronted with in running a large statewide conference. Amanda has also served as Co-Chair of NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ’s User Education Committee since 2013. In her role, Amanda created, established and successfully ran five Information Literacy Summer Workshops, which now have grown into a yearly summer event, with collaborations from the Assessment Committee and now new this year, the Reference Services Committee. This summer workshop has provided NJ academic librarians the opportunity to attend as a participant or share their work during a presentation, table discussion or lightning talk. This summer workshop is just one example of Amanda’s leadership and service in providing additional professional development and learning opportunities in serving the needs of all NJ College and Academic Librarians. She has also has been a conference presenter at the NJLA Annual Conference and VALE User Conferences since 2012 on a variety of topics such as, online learning, student engagement, faculty collaboration and the ACRL Framework.
Amanda has also contributed to the professional development of academic librarians nationally. She developed and facilitated an e-course for ACRL titled “On the Road to Information Library Success: Putting Students in the ‘Drivers’ Seat’ and an e-course for RUSA titled “One Shot Library Instruction and workshops.” She also has delivered workshops, webinars and conference sessions at ACRL Annual Conference, Computers in Libraries, Distance Learning Services Conference and for the Panhandle Library Access Network on topics such as professional development, faculty collaboration, information literacy, library programming and assessment. Amanda also contributes to the literature of librarianship, most recently in a book chapter “Doing the honors: Designing a curriculum for a year-long thesis project” in Undergraduate Research and the Academic Librarian: Case Studies and Best Practices published by Elsevier.
A formal presentation of the award will take place at the NJLA Awards Reception on Thursday evening, May 31 at 6pm and at the NJLA College and University Section’s academic luncheon, “In the Know: The ACRL National Update!” 12:30pm on Friday, June 1, 2018, at the NJLA Conference Harrah's Waterfront Conference Center in Atlantic City, NJ. We hope you will join us!
2018 Research Award Recipients and Forum
Heather Dalal has been selected as the recipient of the 2018 NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Research Award. She will be honored at the NJLA Conference during the College and University Section Luncheon. Ms. Dalal will speak about her research during the Research Showcase to be held on Friday, June 1, 2018 from 11:30am to 12:20pm in the Wildwood 12 & 13 rooms of Harrah's Convention Center in Atlantic City, NJ.
Heather A. Dalal is Associate Professor in the Moore Library at Rider University, specializing in Instruction and Emerging Technologies. The title of the research article she co-authored with Professor Arthur Taylor, also of Rider University, is, “Gender and Information Literacy: Evaluation of Gender Differences in a Student Survey of Information Sources.” An online version of this article can be found at: Taylor, Arthur, & Heather A. Dalal. "Gender and Information Literacy: Evaluation of Gender Differences in a Student Survey of Information Sources." College & Research Libraries 78.1 (2017): 90-113.
Dr. Michelle Kowalsky will also present at the 2018 Research Showcase, talking about her ongoing research entitled, "Leveling Freshman Database Instruction Entry Points." She is a Faculty Librarian at Rowan University and holds a doctorate in Education and a Masters in Business Administration. She, along with her co-author John Woodruff, was the 2017 Research Award recipient as well as being awarded the Rowan University’s Excellence in Diversity Award for their book: Creating Inclusive Library Environments: A Planning Guide for Serving Patrons with Disabilities.
2018 NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Technical Services Award
The Bibliographic Control and Metadata Committee and the Technical Services Committee are pleased to announce that the winner of our inaugural Technical Services Award is Mei Xie, Technical Services Librarian at Hudson County Community College.
As Technical Services Librarian, Ms. Xie has improved library services in many ways, most notably by leading the migration from SirsiDynix to Koha. The migration brought with it many challenges, which she not only overcame but turned into opportunities to improve her institution. She updated library records to RDA standards, modernized the library's authority file and subject headings, and added support for emerging technologies such as linked data. She also improved access to electronic resources and encouraged professional development for her staff.
The award committee felt these achievements generated positive impact on the library's community and showed leadership abilities within the area of technical services. Her work was instrumental in enhancing workflows and implementing new services and cataloging standards in technical services.
This is the first year NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ offered an award for outstanding achievement in technical services. The award was cosponsored by the Bibliographic Control and Metadata Committee and the Technical Services Committee.
CUS Luncheon Speaker
Please view the NJLA Conference Blog for more information about CUS Luncheon Speaker Cheryl Middleton.
Berkeley College Librarians at VALE
Berkeley College Librarians enjoyed lunch together at this year's VALE Conference. Left to right: Victoria Sciuk (Research/Instruction Librarian), Marlene Doty (V.P., Library Services), Matt LaBrake
(Senior Director, Online Library & Technology Services), Samantha Kannegiser (Research/Instruction Librarian), Dina Meky (Research/Instruction Librarian), Julie Hunter (Associate Director, Online Library), Bonnie Lafazan (Director, Woodbridge Campus Library), Jessica Kiebler (Director, White Plains Library), and David Beales (Research/Instruction Librarian - Online).
Announcements
Bayonne Public Library
JP Porcaro, formerly of New Jersey City University, has left academia and has started a new job as director of the Bayonne Public Library. He will miss attending the VALE Conference, and the friends he made through the organization. He can be reached at jp@bayonnelibrary.org.
Berkeley College
Bonnie Lafazan, Director, Berkeley College (Woodbridge) and Jessica Kiebler, Director, Berkeley College (White Plains) published an article for Public Services Quarterly, “Promotion Doesn’t End When Your Event Is Over: The Value of Post-Promoting Your Outreach.”
Bonnie Lafazan, Director, Berkeley College (Woodbridge) co-authored “Marketing for the beginner: Resources from the ACRL Library Marketing and Outreach Interest Group” which appeared in ACRL’s College & Research Libraries News.
Caldwell University
Kimberly Reamer joined the Jennings Library in January 2018 as the Reference Services & Archives Librarian. She received her MLIS from Rutgers University, and a BA in History and Visual Arts with a minor in Medieval and Early Modern Studies from SUNY New Paltz. She has worked in both archives and reference positions in academic libraries, including Seton Hall University, Bergen Community College, and William Paterson University.
Linda Salvesen joined Caldwell University's Jennings Library in October 2017 as the new E-Resources/Serials Management Librarian. She received her Bachelor's in Psychology from La Salle University, and her Masters in Library & Information Science (with a specialization in Health: Resources & Services) from the University of Pittsburgh. She previously worked in one academic science library and two pharmaceutical research libraries.
Georgian Court University
Jeff Donnelly, the GCU Director of Library Services; and Barbara R. Herbert, Behavioral Sciences/Business Librarian, had an article published in College & Research Libraries News:
Donnelly, J.C. & Herbert, B. R. (2017). Calling all gamers: Game night in the academic library. College & Research Libraries News, 78, 389-391.
From the article: “This article examines how two librarians developed a library game night through careful planning, collaborating with key university departments, and partnering with an international corporation to successfully bring students into the library, creating the most successful reoccurring student event at Georgian Court University (GCU).”
Monmouth University
Eleanora Dubicki, Professor Librarian; and Susan Bucks, Specialist Librarian, recently had an article published in Reference Services Review:
Eleonora Dubicki, Susan Bucks, (2018) "Tapping government sources for course assignments", Reference Services Review, Vol. 46 Issue: 1, pp.29-41, https://doi.org/10.1108/RSR-10-2017-0039
Montclair Sate University
Denise O'Shea, Head of Acess Services and Systems, received the 2017 Distinguished Achievement in Access Services Award at the Access Services Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This award, created in 2014, recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions and who demonstrate strong commitment to the field of access services.
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Our esteemed colleague, Bruce Slutsky retired as Science & Engineering Librarian from NJIT after 25 years of outstanding service to the library, students, and faculty. He was widely known as the convenor of the Metro SIG of Science, Technology, Medical Librarians (now called a meet-up). Former Sotheby's Librarian Leah Greis is filling in with aplomb while we conduct a search for a permanent successor.
Davida Scharf collaborated on a conference presentation and article with colleagues in Information Systems and the School of Management:
Egan, R., Fjermestad, J., Scharf, D. (2017). The use of mastery quizzes to enhance student preparation. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice 17(8):36-42. Click here to read the abstract.
Rutgers University
Leslin H. Charles received the 2018 Faculty Award for Outstanding Generosity and Commitment to Students, from the Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
Seton Hall University
Lisa DeLuca announces a publication with Erin Ackerman of TCNJ. See full announcement under TCNJ.
Christopher Duffy joined Seton Hall University Libraries in November as our new Associate Dean & Founding Director, Health Sciences Library and Information Commons. Chris comes to us from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital where he worked for almost 5 years, and prior to that, Fordham. Chris has a BA in History from Hobart and William Smith, and an MLIS from Rutgers.
Dr. Sarah Ponichtera joins Seton Hall University Libraries today as our new Assistant Dean for Special Collections and the Gallery. Sarah comes to us from the Vilna Project where she was Manager at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for 3 years, and prior to that she was a Processing Archivist at the Center for Jewish History for almost 3 years. Sarah has a BA in English from Mount Holyoke College, an MA in Yiddish Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD from Columbia University in Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.
The College of New Jersey
Erin Ackerman (Social Sciences Librarian, The College of New Jersey) and Lisa DeLuca (Social Sciences Librarian, Seton Hall University) published "Weed 'Em and Reap? Deselection of Political Science Books" in the January 2018 issue of The Journal of Academic Librarianship. The article is online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2017.10.003.
Rebecca Bushby has been appointed Education Librarian at The College of New Jersey. Rebecca earned her MSLIS from Drexel University where she was inducted into Beta Phi Mu, and her BFA from The College of New Jersey, where she graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi. Previous positions include School Librarian at Mount Olive (NJ) High School, Jefferson Township (NJ) Schools and Windham (ME) Middle School. She is currently pursuing an additional graduate degree in Education. She holds NJ Professional Librarian and School Library Media Specialist certifications. Rebecca’s research interests focus on user behavior, including first year students' library anxiety and how library environment affects students' use of library resources.
VALE 2018 by the numbers
By Amanda Piekart
- 278 Registrations
- 8 Rutgers library student volunteers
- 18 Poster Sessions
- 21 Breakout sessions
- Featured speaker: Leslie Burger
The Nineteenth Annual VALE / ACRL-NJ / NJLA CUS Users’ Conference was held on Friday, January 5, 2018 at the Busch Campus Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. The theme was “Innovate, Create, Collaborate Moving Libraries Forward.” We had a full, excellent program of 21 breakouts and 18 poster sessions on a variety of topics ranging from archives, digitization, acquisitions, discovery, marketing and outreach, and library instruction and information literacy.
Our featured speaker was Leslie Burger, Library Development Solutions. Until 2016, she was also the executive director of the Princeton Public Library (NJ) where she helped plan, design, and secure funding for a new 55,000 square foot library that opened in 2004. Leslie served as the 2006-2007 President of the American Library Association, where she sponsored a variety of initiatives focused on library transformation. In her VALE presentation, titled “What’s Next? Creating the Library of the Future Today”, she provided inspiration on how librarians could plan for the future in order to position academic libraries to be essential to the communities they serve.
All of the conference presentation materials that we received are available here: https://vale.njedge.net/resources/2018-conference/
Among the materials available are:
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Links to poster session posters
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Presentation materials from most of the breakout sessions
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this year’s conference!
Amanda Piekart is a Co-Chair of the VALE Users' Conference Planning Committee. She is also the Director, Research & Instructional Services at Berkeley College.
2018 NJLA Annual Conference: Programs for College and University Librarians
Need a Social Media Compass?
By Carina Gonzalez, Gary Marks, Jr., and Hilary Westgate
Social media has become a central component of marketing and communication in academia, and so academic libraries are striving to develop their social media effectiveness. However, planning and assessment are necessary in order to ensure that the social media tactics we employ are accomplishing our ultimate goals. Many questions arise regarding the use of social media. How do we get started? What platforms should we be using? Who is going to do it? How do we know if it is working? How is everyone else using social media?
Any library that considers using social media has faced these questions and many others. The good news is you are not alone. The better news is that librarians are all about resources and sharing!
The NJLA-CUS/ACRL-NJ Marketing & Outreach Committee is sponsoring an NJLA conference session called Maximizing Your Academic Library’s Social Media Efforts to Engage or Reach Your Audience. Three New Jersey academic librarians will walk you through how they have approached social media efforts at their institutions, discussing everything from just getting started to learning essential skills and tips to getting the most out of your social media presence.
Society dove into social media when it burst onto the scene, potentially without really understanding what it was or how it could work best. Since the dawn of Facebook in 2004 (MySpace, anyone?), social media has expanded exponentially as technological innovations have integrated information-sharing into our daily routines. Many libraries began engaging in social media because they did not want to miss the opportunity. However, many never slowed down to understand the road they were traveling.
Has your library ever felt that your social media is lost in the woods without a compass? It is never too late to get started or re-evaluate your social media presence and gain a sense of direction. Have you ever asked, ‘do we need to develop a social media policy, or should we have a plan’? Developing a social media policy and a social media plan can be an eye-opening experience. The process can shed completely new light on your social media activities, providing a guide to be more effective and efficient as a result.
ACRL Framework Workshop
By Cara Berg
The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education was officially adopted by the ACRL Board in 2016. After the implementation of the ACRL Framework and the subsequent sunsetting of the ACRL Standards, librarians had the task of getting used to the Framework and applying it to their own instruction. ACRL provides resources to utilize the Framework: the Framework Toolkit (http://acrl.libguides.com/framework/toolkit) is one of those resources.
The CUS User Education Committee has spent many meetings discussing the Framework. While much of our early discussion was on dissecting and understanding the Framework, we were looking to discuss the Framework in a more in-depth level. The Framework Toolkit was a logical next step. Our group focused in on “The Framework’s Structure” module with a workshop held April 14 after our bimonthly User Education meeting.
With help from Leslin Charles at Rutgers, we were able to utilize the Pane Room at Alexander Library: the perfect setting for a lively group discussion. We were happy to see the attendees be a mixture of user education and other librarians. The 18 attendees were broken up into two groups and worked on two activities from the toolkit. The first group mapped the definition of information literacy to the Framework and the second group mapped the six Frames to each other.
Overall, while some of the activities were a little challenging, good discussion was had about the Framework. The User Education Committee was happy to host this event and happy to facilitate discussion about the Framework in order for all of us to be more comfortable as we apply it to our own instruction.
Cara Berg is a co-chair of the CUS User Education Committee, and is a Reference Librarian and Co-Coordinator of User Education at William Paterson University. She can be reached at bergc1@wpunj.edu.
News from SCARLA
By Katrina Zwaaf, SCARLA President
The 2018 Spring semester leadership for The Student College, Academic, and Research Library Association (SCARLA) at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information remains mostly unchanged. Katrina Zwaaf continues in the role of President and is supported by Treasurer Rebecca Berkowitz, Webmaster Stacy Brody, and in the fall Rachel Pieters took on the role of Secretary. Dr. Marie L. Radford continues to serve as Faculty Advisor.
SCARLA exists to promote students’ understanding of academic librarianship by organizing speakers, events, and trips. In February we held a joint meeting with Library and Information Science Student Association (LISSA), Student Organization for Unique and Rare Collections Everywhere (SOURCE), and Rutgers Association of School Librarians (RASL) to welcome new students who were interested in getting involved with the MI program’s student organizations.
Also In February, we had our first meeting of the semester to welcome new students and members interested in academic librarianship. At this meeting, they got an overview of what SCARLA is and does. We also spoke about officer positions that would be available in Fall 2018 and encouraged members to consider taking on one of the positions.
In March we hosted a talk with Megan Lotts, the Art Librarian here at Rutgers. She spoke about how makerspaces in public libraries have received a lot of attention but that academic, museum, and special libraries are seeing the benefits of makerspaces too. Her presentation demonstrated the benefits of makerspaces for academic libraries, and highlighted academic libraries where “making” is happening. She also provided us with examples of ways libraries can create high-impact, low-cost makerspaces that engage and educate their communities.
FOLIO Meeting Summary
By Karen Venturella and Bill Schryba
FOLIO (the Future of Libraries is Open) is “a community collaboration to develop an open source Library Services Platform (LSP) designed for innovation.” (https://www.folio.org/) FOLIO is presented as a unique initiative where vendors and librarians are working together to create an open source tool that can be adapted to address the unique needs of libraries and library consortiums. The collaborators include many vendors, librarians, developers, library consortiums, etc. Some of the vendors involved in FOLIO are EBSCO, Index Data, Open Library Environment (OLE), Bywater, SIRSI, and others.
A FOLIO program was held on February 6 at Drew University and librarians from a variety of institutions attended. The presenters showcased the extensive supportive community that is promoting the development of FOLIO.
The presenters included Neil Block, VP of Global Open Source Innovation at EBSCO; Jesse Koennecke, Director of Acquisitions and E-Resource Licensing Services at Cornell University; Andrew Nagy, Director of SaaS Innovation at EBSCO; Tania Fersenheim, Content & Applications Manager at Fenway Libraries Organization; and Christopher Spalding, vice-president for Open Source Platforms and Communities at EBSCO.
The FOLIO community is international in scope as it includes Chalmers in Sweden, China Academic and Information System (CALIS), and a German library consortium. The library services platform (LSP) will use open source software and “microservices architecture” to build up modules that will be code independent and provide circulation, technical services/cataloging, acquisitions, access to data repositories, and other functions. Modules will not be limited to any one solution; a user could choose among any available module or develop their own.
Librarians as Superheroes of Information!
By Maria Deptula, Jessica Kiebler and Bonnie Lafazan
In January 2018, the Outreach and Marketing Committee (OMC) at Berkeley College initiated the first Celebrate Berkeley College Libraries Month with a "superhero" theme.
To achieve this goal, the Committee decided that each week would be dedicated to a different librarian superpower and filled with activities and events. We began by reaching out to our coworker, graphic designer, Mark Maddalena, who designed a super librarian’s graphics. We prepared materials (PowerPoint presentations, quizzes, games, and infographics) that would support the theme of “Four Super Reasons to Use Your Library” and encouraged librarians in each of our eight campus libraries to host events related to that week’s topic. We also created a Libguide that contains the information about recommended activities and promotional materials.
https://berkeleycollege.libguides.com/informationliteracysuperpowers
To get students and staff engaged, librarians displayed a “Question of the Week,” inside the libraries, on the campus digital signage and on Blackboard for our Online students. The first two questions were about system-wide data, while the last two were campus specific. The OMC provided each campus library with superhero Pez dispensers that were awarded to those who correctly guessed the answer to our questions.
ACRL News
B. Lafazan and Nancy Weiner attended the ACRL Chapters Council Meeting at ALA Midwinter 2018 Conference in Denver Colorado. The following are some important ACRL updates from the meeting:
- National Library Legislative Day, May 7-8, 2018 in D.C.
- ACRL 2019 Conference
- Cleveland, OH next April 2019.
- Papers, panels, preconference and workshop proposals due May 4, 2018
- Note: Conference Scholarships call-out May 2018 (there are $70,000 in scholarship funds!)
- Research Scholarships: ACRL offers scholarships for librarians to conduct research!
From the Newsletter Archives
Open the Spring 1993 Newsletter to look 25 years back in time! See what CUS programs were presented at the 1993 NJLA Conference. Read about the "Future Directions of the User Education Committee" to see if the committee accurately predicated their future directions. Plus, it's always fun to see what was "On the Cutting Edge of Technology," and read old announcement about past and current coworkers!
Sharing My Experience at the OCLC Resource Sharing Conference
By Katie Cohen
As an Interlibrary Loan Librarian and first time attendee at the OCLC Resource Sharing Conference, I felt the trip to Jacksonville, Florida was very rewarding. I got a refresher course in ILL basics, learned about the new ILL system called Tipasa, heard from some New Jersey presenters, and met some interesting librarians from all over the country.
Although I have been serving as ILL Librarian for several years now, I arrived early to attend the ILL 101 workshop. Although I knew about a lot of the things that the presenters discussed, one can never stop learning! I picked up a lot of great tips about borrowing, lending, assessment and copyright.
As our library is currently transitioning to Tipasa, it was very helpful to hear about experiences from those who have already made the change to the new ILL system. Quite a few sessions were dedicated to Tipasa, and many others included updates or tips about it. Librarians and OCLC employees gave great advice on things such as how to use tags, how to manage copyright in the new interface, how to use Tipasa to aid in collection management, and how to take advantage of automated processes such as automatic template notifications.
One of the biggest reactions that a presenter received was when a panelist announced that her consortia has the right to lend ebooks. Mikki Butcher, Director, ILL & Course Reserves, at James Madison University said that VIVA: The Virtual Library of Virginia negotiated their licensing agreements to allow them to lend PDFs of entire books. They have these rights from the following publishers: Brill, Taylor and Francis, Wiley, and Oxford University Press (with the latter, books must be downloaded chapter by chapter). Other conference attendees were all hopeful that they could negotiate similar terms with vendors. I think this could be an excellent opportunity for VALE to investigate.
Editors
The CUS/ACRL-NJ Newsletter is edited by Joan Dalrymple, Reference and Instruction Librarian at Bergen Community College and Katie Maricic Cohen, Interlibrary Loan, Reference and Instruction Librarian at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Editors Joan Dalrymple and Katie Cohen pose for a picture during the Summer 2015 Marketing and Communications Committee Meeting at Monmouth University Library.