NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Chapter

2013 Technology Innovation Awards

Call for Nominations

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The NJLA College and University Section Technology Innovation Award honors a librarian or group of librarians for innovative use and application of technology in a New Jersey academic library. The award may be given either in recognition of a specific project, or for ongoing delivery of innovative technology applications. The purpose of the award is to recognize distinguished leadership in developing new technologies for academic libraries. This year, the NJLA-CUS Technology Committee is pleased to announce that the award will be split into two categories and two awards will be given; one to a four-year institution and one for a two-year institution.

2013 marks the 11^th year of the Technology Innovation Award. In that time, the award has only gone to a community college once in 2004 where it was shared with Rutgers. The impetus behind this decision comes from the desire to see more entries from community colleges and to learn more about the special technology needs of the library at 2-year institutions.

Please consider nominating your librarians or staff for their work in increasing value to your library through technology projects.  To see all of the winners (and some presentations) of the NJLA Technology Innovation award, please visit our website:

http://cus.njla.org/content/q-what-library-technology-projects-have-been-nominated-previous-years

Please follow these guidelines in completing your nomination:

1. Write a letter of nomination, including in no more than two paragraphs why the candidate is being nominated for the award. Self-nominations are welcome.
2. If this nomination is for a specific project, please supply a description (objectives, activities, and impacts), in no more than two pages. Supporting documents related to the project, including URLs, can be attached.
3. The remaining substance of the nomination letter should address in what specific ways the nominee has achieved the following:
   • Benefits of innovation/use of technology to library users;
   • Benefits of innovation/use of technology to the information community;
   • Impact of innovation/use of technology on librarians and library operations; and
   • Impact of innovation/use of technology on perception of the library/librarians in the academic setting.
4. Be sure to include in your nomination the complete contact information for your nominee: name, title, institution, address, telephone and e-mail. Also, please include names and contact information for members of a project team.

Selected nominees will be asked to demonstrate their project and answer questions on Friday, March 22nd, at the Scholarly Communication Center of Rutgers University Libraries in New Brunswick from 9AM to 2PM.   The Committee welcomes any use of technology that enhances understanding of the project.

Please Note: Winner(s) of the NJLA CUS Technology Innovation Award and some nominees will give a presentation on their project at the 2013 NJLA Annual Conference in June in Atlantic City.

Nomination Deadline: February 1, 2013.

Please send nominations and questions via E-mail to both:

Ray Schwartz
Co-Chair, Technology Committee
NJLA College and University Section
E-Mail: schwartzr2@wpunj.edu

and

Alyssa Valenti
Co-Chair, Technology Committee
NJLA College and University Section
E-Mail: avalenti@raritanval.edu

The NJLA College and University Section (CUS) Technology Committee is pleased to announce that the NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Technology Innovation Award winners for 2012 are:

RUanalytic: Video annotation tool: enabling learning, transforming scholarly publication, led by

Chad M. Mills, Rutgers Digital Library Architect,

Grace Agnew, Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems and

Yang Yu, Rutgers Library Database Architect

The RUanalytic Team will demonstrate their project at the Technology Innovation Forum on Tuesday, June 5th, at the NJLA Conference in Atlantic City, NJ.

They will be joined by this year's nominees for the Award, who will also demonstrate their individual projects:

• Creating a Library Community in Blackboard Project – Steve Shapiro and Shunfa Li (Montclair University)
• Embedding LibGuides into SOCS Project – Sharon Whitfield and John T. Oliver (The College of New Jersey)
• The Implementation and Application of CORAL: An Open Source ERM System Project - Yongming Wang and Jia Mi (The College of New Jersey)
• UMDNJ University Libraries—Going Mobile Project – Jenny Pierce and Yingting Zhang (UMDNJ)

The Technology Innovation Award will be presented at the College and University Section Luncheon on Wednesday, June 6th.  Please join me in congratulating the winners and nominees for the award at the NJLA 2012 Conference.  Registration information is online at: http://njlaconference.info/  The early registration deadline is May 18th.