Sharon Q. Yang, Systems Librarian, Rider University and Melissa A. Hofmann, Bibliographic Control Librarian, Rider University, have been selected as this year’s recipients of the NJ Research Award granted by the NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Research Committee.  The winning article is: “Next Generation or Current Generation?  A Study of the OPACs of 260 Academic Libraries in the United States and Canada,” published in Library Hi Tech, 29(2), 266-200. 

This year’s selected presenters for the 2012 NJLA Research Forum are:  Diane K. Campbell, Rider University, for her research entitled “The Second Stage of an Investigation of Environmental Scanning Practices by Entrepreneurs,” and Sharon Whitfield, The College of New Jersey, for her research entitled “Micropayments & Article Rentals:  How These Services May Impact the Library.”

Karen Pifher, Co-Chair, Research Committee
Branch Director, Peapack & Gladstone Library, Somerset County Library System

Sharon Q. Yang	Melissa A. Hofmann