Research Committee

The Research Committee is the joint committee of NJLA's College & University Section and the NJ Chapter of ACRL.  We strive to promote research among librarians in the state of New Jersey. The Committee sponsors two juried events each year. 

The Research Award honors a New Jersey librarian by presenting the best published research from the previous year. The Research Forum winners present their work-in-progress as a short talk at the Research Forum. We remain dedicated to seeking ways to support and encourage sharing information about research projects on a wide variety of topics. 

Interested in becoming a member? The Research Committee welcomes all librarians, academic/public/private interested in library research and publishing. To join the committee, please contact the committee chair for more information.

Research Committee

2023 Research Award Winner

Congratulations to Joyce Kasman Valenza, Heather Dalal, Gihan Mohamad, Brenda Boyer, Cara Berg, Leslin H. Charles, Rebecca Bushby, Megan Dempsey, Joan Dalrymple, and Ewa Dziedzic-Elliott, the winners of the 2023 NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Research Award, for their article entitled "First years' information literacy backpacks: What's already packed or not packed?" in The Journal of Academic Librarianship

Valenza, J. K., Dalal, H., Mohamad, G., Boyer, B., Berg, C., Charles, L. H., Bushby, R., Dempsey, M., Dalrymple, J., & Dziedzic-Elliott, E. (2022). “First years' information literacy backpacks: What's already packed or not packed?” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 48(4), 102566. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133322000829

 First Year Research Team

2022 Research Award Winner

Picture of Leslin Charles

Congratulations to Leslin Charles of Rutgers University, the winner of the 2022 NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Research Award, for her article entitled "Closing the Transactional Distance in an Online Graduate Course through the Practice of Embedded Librarianship," in College and Research Libraries

Charles, L., & DeFabiis, W. (May 2021). Closing the Transactional Distance in an Online Graduate Course through the Practice of Embedded Librarianship. College and Research Libraries, 82(3), p.370. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.82.3.370.

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