SPRING 2013
2013 Distinguished Service Award- Marta Deyrup
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Submitted by Gracemary Smulewitz, Vice President/President-Elect NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ It is my pleasure to announce that Marta M. Deyrup of Seton Hall University Libraries is the recipient of the 2013 Distinguished Service Award, granted by the New Jersey Library Association’s College and University Section / Association of College and Research Libraries New Jersey chapter. This honor 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 Marta’s excellent, energetic, prolific, and long-standing contributions to New Jersey librarianship both in information literacy instruction and as an international educator, editor and writer in information science. Marta has twice received the prestigious Researcher of the Year Award at Seton Hall University Libraries. She has long been an active participant in NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ. She was a member of the team that won the first NJLA CUS/Technology Innovation Award in 2002 for “Information Literacy in the Wired University.” She has served the VALE Committee on Information Literacy, the VALE Committee on Bibliographic Control and Metadata and is an active member of the VALE Assessment, Evaluation and Statistics Committee where she helped to create the new VALE Survey Planning Checklist. Marta currently serves as Acquisitions Editor for LITA Guides and is on the editorial boards for the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship as well as the Technical Services Quarterly. She has written extensively on technologies and scholarship in librarianship and has contributed to the literature for Slavic librarians. Along with her many contributions, Marta has also served as the Co-Director of the Elizabeth Ann Seton Center for Women’s Studies at Seton Hall University. She has also served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Library Science for the Institut Morocain d’Information Scientifique et Technique in Morocco as well as for the University of Zadar in Croatia. Marta received her Master of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University and her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature at Columbia University. A formal presentation of the award will take place at the College and University Section’s luncheon at 12:30 pm on Wednesday June 5th 2013 at the NJLA Conference at Revel Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ. Please join the NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Executive Board in offering Marta congratulations and appreciation for the many years she has dedicated to the academic library profession. |
From the President, Denise O'Shea:
From the President
By Denise O’Shea, NJLA CUS/NJ ACRL Chapter President
With the NJLA 2013 Annual Conference only weeks away, there will be ample opportunity for NJ academic librarians to use their social media skills to network, connect and share conference updates with other librarians online. Following are some useful tips for getting the most out of your social media and mobile technology conference experience:
RSVP and Join the Conversation on FaceBook
First, if you are already on Facebook, you should let your friends and colleagues know that you plan to attend the conference by submitting an RSVP to the conference event on the NJLA Conference Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/events/545389458835092/. That page is where you will find out who else is planning on attending the conference, and you will get news and updates about the conference.
While you’re on Facebook you should also check out the page titled “Conversation Starter: New Roles in Social Media” (https://www.facebook.com/events/190594514421448/?fref=ts). The owners of this page are presenting a session at the conference on questions raised by recent developments in social media such as -- how do sponsored listings, privacy policies and the changing preferences of the end user affect our services? What is working for libraries? Should we continue to post, tweet, pin and tumbl? You can start the conversation about these topics before the conference by sharing your ideas, comments, trends, pet-peeves and thoughts on this Facebook page.
Sign-up for the Unconference via the Google Groups Carpool/Room Share Listserv
You’ve registered for the conference but would like to save some money on transportation and hotel costs, and start doing some casual networking early. With so many conference attendees driving some distance to get to Atlantic City, NJLA has setup a listserv on Google Groups to help facilitate carpooling and room sharing options. The long drive from points in North Jersey and elsewhere can provide the opportunity for casual, but meaningful conversations about our profession, technology, higher education, cooking, gardening, music, etc. Sign-up for the listserv at http://njlaconference.info/content/carpool-roomshare.
Use Twitter for Promoting and Live Tweeting Conference Program
Before the conference, use Twitter to get the word out about a program where you are presenting or to publicize your poster presentation. At the conference, live tweet the conference in order to share minute-to-minute updates about conference sessions and events. Use the official conference hashtag -- #NJLA2013 – in order to make sure that followers can find your tweets, and that the tweets themselves become part of the larger conversation about the conference. Looking for some best practices for live tweeting a conference? Take a look at this useful blog post from Sage -- http://sageconnection.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/how-to-live-tweet-at-an-academic-event/.
Download the Boopsie App for Conference Info at Your Fingertips
Once again, conference sponsor Boopsie has generously donated its services to provide us with the most necessary conference information right at your fingertips. Find session times, room locations, speaker information, and more with this free app. Details for downloading the app from iTunes and/or Google Play were not available at press time. Visit http://njlaconference.info/ for more information as we get closer to the start of the conference.
Check-in to the Revel on Foursquare
Waiting in line or at a kiosk to check-in to your room? Don’t wait to check-in on Foursquare at the Revel (https://foursquare.com/revelresorts). Let your friends and colleagues know exactly where you are and what you’re up to. It’s much more efficient than those little post-it notes used at past conferences, and less intrusive than texting your location.
A Picture Really Tells the Story
There are so many ways that you can share pictures from the conference – via Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/njla), Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and of course Facebook.
I hope these options - along with the interpersonal networking that you do throughout the conference - will enhance your conference experience and extend the reach of our conference beyond the walls of the conference hotel.
Denise O’Shea is the Head of Access Services and Systems at Montclair State University’s Harry A. Sprague Library. She can be reached at oshead@mail.montclair.edu.
VALE Annual Conference: Demonstrating Value for Every Attendee
By Denise O’Shea
VALE Conference 2013 by the Numbers
- 280 Registrations
- 43 VALE institutions represented
- 12 Rutgers library student volunteers
- 19 Poster Sessions
- 23 Breakout sessions
- Featured speaker: Dr. Ellie A. Fogarty, Vice President, Middle States Commission on Higher Education
The Fourteenth Annual VALE Users’/NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Conference was held on Friday, January 4, 2013 at the Busch Campus Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. The theme was “Demonstrating Value for Every User.” We had a full program of 23 excellent breakout and 19 poster sessions on a variety of topics ranging from mobile apps & devices, e-books, patron driven acquisitions, discovery, copyright, the VALID project, collection development, library instruction and information literacy. Attendance remained strong at this very popular conference.
In response to attendee feedback from previous years, the VALE Conference Committee changed the schedule of the day’s events. This year, instead of a Keynote Speaker giving a presentation in the morning, we had a Featured Speaker present after lunch. We also offered a post-conference networking/dessert reception. This new conference schedule generated a lot of comments on the conference evaluation form with 68% of the respondents rating the changes positively. It’s too early to say what format the schedule for next year’s conference will take.
Our featured speaker was Dr. Ellie A. Fogarty, Vice President, Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Dr. Fogarty currently serves as a liaison for accreditation services to 90 colleges and universities in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. On behalf of the Commission, she presents workshops on issues related to higher education accreditation such as assessment, institutional effectiveness, and compliance with the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. From 1992 to 2009, Dr. Fogarty was employed by The College of New Jersey, including roles as Associate Provost for Planning and Resource Allocation, Deputy Compliance Officer, and Business & Economics Librarian. During that time, she served as a volunteer peer evaluator on six MSCHE accreditation team visits to a variety of institutions. In her VALE presentation, titled “From Closed Stacks to an Open Book: Demonstrating Value for Accreditation”, she discussed best practices in preparing for accreditation with an emphasis on accountability and transparency in higher education.
All of the conference presentation materials that we received have been uploaded to the VALE web site. Among the materials available are:
- Links to photos of the poster session posters
- Our Featured Speaker’s presentation slides
- Presentation materials from most of the breakout sessions
Go to http://www.valenj.org/conference/2013/program to see what is available.
Next year’s conference date has been confirmed for Friday, January 10, 2014 at the same location. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this year’s conference.
Denise O’Shea is the Head of Access Services and Systems at Montclair State University’s Harry A. Sprague Library. She can be reached at oshead@mail.montclair.edu.
Service Innovations at Middlesex County College Library
By Mark Thompson
Middlesex County College Library has just finished the final steps in establishing a complete suite of self-service tools for students at the College. At the main circulation desk, we have integrated three computers to allow for one-stop shopping for students.
One is a new self-checkout machine. Bibliotheca's (SIRSIDynix) EM Countertop Self Checkout machine allows scanning of student ID & book barcodes, plus security case
unlock for DVDs. If in using this, their ID is blocked because it has not been renewed, they simply go to the User PC and print out their current schedule. This is handed to the Circ staff member who uses the third PC (SIRSI terminal) to update their record. The suite of services is designed to encourage student management of their library use. Students can check their own accounts on SIRSI iBistro. Since MCC is part of LMxAC (Libraries of Middlesex Automation Consortium), students can look across the shared catalog of 28 member libraries in Middlesex County and place holds on items wherever they are. These items are delivered to MCC and the students are notified by email or automated vmail.
Two weeks ago, the final piece was implemented. We launched SmartPay (Comprise Technologies) that allows users to pay fines via credit card. They pay right at the counter, instead of having to go over to Bursar, hand the receipt to staff and their student record holds are lifted.
Mark Thompson (mthompson@middlesexcc.edu) is the Director at Middlesex County College Library.
WPU’s Kurt Wagner Brings Real World Experience to Rutgers MLIS Students
By Lisa DeLuca
Last fall in New Brunswick future librarians were busy with teambuilding drills, lightning rounds to showcase new library technology and numerous ILS implementations. This was not a conference or consortia meeting, but Rutgers MLIS graduate students getting hands-on experience in their Understanding Library Systems and Software Applications with Professor Kurt Wagner.
Kurt Wagner is an Assistant Director and Head of Library Information Systems at Cheng Library at William Paterson University (WPU). His course taught students how to evaluate library systems and how to communicate relevant information to systems librarians. Most students were halfway through their MLIS program; some had taken courses in databases, archiving, and/or digitization. “While these students may not be focused on becoming systems librarians,” Wagner emphasized, “they will certainly all be interacting with one.” Read More...
Lessons Learned from a General Education and Information Literacy Collaboration
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By Heather Cook Academic librarians are faced with the challenge of conveying to faculty the value of information literacy skills and the importance of integrating information literacy into the curriculum. Recently, the New Jersey Council of Community Colleges mandated information literacy be integrated across the General Education curriculum and be documented in the syllabi. The state’s new requirement presented an opportunity for librarians at Bergen Community College to advocate and promote information literacy within the college community. We worked with the chair of the General Education Committee to review and revise over 180 syllabi based on the new requirement. This large endeavor was the Information Literacy Initiative project and presented an occasion for collaboration, the championing of information literacy, and learning valuable lessons. Read More... |
Google Apps for Education Surpasses Expectations
By Amy B. Popp
In the spring of 2012, I was hired to be the Webmaster at Immaculate Conception High School, a Catholic co-educational high school in Montclair, New Jersey. My charge was to update the content, media, functionality, and visibility of the site. Subsequently, the website (www.ichspride.org) became a vital instrument to share school information, activities, and media. Students, faculty, and parents started to look at the website again to learn about school activities, and the website became a recruiting tool for incoming students. As I revamped the website, I noticed that the email system being used by the school was outdated, clunky, and was barely in use by anyone in the school. It needed to be replaced by something that would enable the school community to communicate with each other effectively. Read More...
Letting Them Know We’re “More Than Books”
By Megan Dempsey
The Evelyn S. Field Library at Raritan Valley Community College has been campaigning to let our faculty and staff know we’re “more than books.” Our new library brand and motto are catching on, and we’ve been going outside of our own walls, physically and virtually, to spread the word to the college community.
We started by getting the college president’s approval for a new library logo that incorporates our slogan, “More than Books” (Figure 1). The library logo matches the one we created for RVOneSearch, our implementation of Ebsco Discovery Service, which went live in January. We are undergoing a full website redesign this summer, with the logo to be featured prominently on the new website.
We also decided to revamp our library newsletter by sending it out as a monthly email blast with snippets of interesting information about the library and research, rather than publishing a full-length newsletter on our webpage that would only collect virtual dust (Figure 2). Recent issues of the e-newsletter included facts about how the library improves student success; a highlight of a recent journal article published by two faculty members; intriguing quotes from a research study on undergraduate research habits; and a featured app that we thought students and faculty would like to know about. So many departments on campus blast our inboxes on a regularly basis, we figured why shouldn’t the library, and the response has been positive so far. Read More...
CUS / ACRL Programs for NJLA 2013: June 3-5
Cool Productivity Tools!
By Katie Maricic
Would you like to be more productive at work and in your daily life? Are you looking for shared spaces to collaborate with colleagues, a replacement for your USB drive, or more exciting presentation tools? This article discusses apps and websites that will help streamline your life, including cloud computing, tools to make more effective presentations, and apps and sites to help you manage to-do lists and focus on goals.
As an information literacy instructor, I consistently find new ways to manage my documents and discover tools to create more engaging presentations. My colleague, Bonnie Lafazan (Library Director of Berkeley College’s Woodbridge Campus Library) is interested in trying out new time management and to-do productivity apps. We presented our findings as a three-part program series geared to teach students how to be more productive in their schoolwork by using free web tools. The students, staff and faculty in attendance unanimously responded to our survey that the tools learned in the program series would help them increase productivity in their college, work and personal lives. We shared our program development tips with our NJ library colleagues at Best Practices Teaching Technology to Your Community during LibraryLink NJ’s Technology Speed Dating Program at Monroe Public Library. At this April’s Computers in Libraries Conference in Washington, D.C., we presented the tools to fellow librarians in our Cool Productivity Tools workshop. Now you have the opportunity to learn about these tools, and teach them to your library users! Read More...
On the Move
Ashley Carvagno joined Ocean County College in April as the Library Technical Services Specialist.
Nicholas Jackson, Lecturer at Bergen Community College, will be Head Librarian/Information Specialist at Morristown Beard School, Morristown, NJ, beginning this fall.
Dr. Mitchell Weiss, Assistant University Librarian for Online Library at Fairleigh Dickinson University, is retiring on March 31st. Mitch has been with FDU for over 10 years and has repeatedly demonstrated his mastery of contract negotiations and technical troubleshooting with our many electronic resource vendors. He has worked tirelessly, increasing our online resources from just 20 databases to over 90 online resources. In retirement, Mitch will resume his research and other scholarly activities in his field of invertebrate biology.
Sharon Whitfield joined the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in January of 2013 as the Emerging Technologies Librarian.
BJ Swartz retired after a decade of service to UMDNJ as the Infomation Management Librarian. BJ Swartz announced her retirement effective April 1, 2013.
Seton Hall University Libraries would like to announce the following new appointments:
Jeff Barry has been appointed the new Associate Dean of University Libraries at Seton Hall University. Barry was previously a Co-Founder and Technical Director of SoroDesign in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which provided software development for mobile devices and strategic approaches to publishing apps. Prior to co-founding SoroDesign, Jeff was Director, Digital Library Programs & Technology/Assistant University Librarian for Digital Library Initiatives at University of Miami Libraries. Jeff came to the University of Miami from having served as the Head of Systems Development at Old Dominion University Libraries in Norfolk Virginia, which followed his position as Cooperative Information Services Librarian at the University of Tennessee Libraries. Jeff has a Master of Science in Library Science from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Jody Lee Drafta is now the Assistant to the Dean of University Libraries at Seton Hall University. She returns to university libraries after furthering her studio practice for three years and writing exhibition reviews for Artwrit.com. Jody previously served as Assistant to University Librarian Jim Neal at Columbia University. Jody earned a Bachelor of Arts in German Literature from Reed College (Phi Beta Kappa), a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Washington/Seattle, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University.
Presentation & Publication Announcements
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Linda Humes, Burlington County College At Burlington County College (BCC) we rely on part-time staff to fill in the scheduling gaps and support our full-time staff in its daily endeavor to provide library resources for over 10,000 students, faculty and the community, as I am sure many of you do as well. We have some great part-time librarians who add to our students’ college and library experience because of their exceptional talents. As a supervisor, it gives me great pleasure and pride to share with everyone that one of our part-time staff has successfully published a technology article in the March/April 2013 issue of Knowledge Quest.
Our BCC part-time librarian, Linda Humes partnered with her middle school librarian, Lauren Newman, to produce “Investigating the Crime of the 20th Century Using 21st-Century Tools”. It showcased Linda’s seventh grade students (she is a full-time teacher by day) using SideVibe to help them do research and produce a finished paper on the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. This is a collaborative tool which can be monitored by the classroom teacher, but allows for students to work with each other to collaborate in small teams to complete the assignment. The end results were that the students were excited to use the technology, worked well together, asked the instructors less questions and produced a superior project at the end.
Linda’s distinctive skill set is her ability to investigate new technology tools and assimilate that into her work environment, whether it is her classroom or our library. She is a natural and enthusiastic teacher and willingly shares her knowledge with grateful BCC students and her co-workers. Submitted by Michelle Martin, Coordinator of Library Services, Burlington Community College.
Bruce Slutsky, Robert Van Houten Library, New Jersey Institute of Technology Osorio, N. L., & Slutsky, B. (2012). A Tribute and BioBibliometric Study of Ellis Mount, the First Editor-in-Chief of Science & Technology Libraries. Science & Technology Libraries, 31(4), 394-411. doi:10.1080/0194262X.2012.730385
This paper is a memorial tribute and a biobibliometric analysis of the contributions of Ellis Mount to science, engineering, and technology librarianship. It starts with a biographical section, followed by three sections related to his work. An analysis is made of his contributions to the profession as an editor; as a bibliographer; and as an author. Ellis Mount edited several hundred articles, authored or edited at least fifty-eight monographs, oversaw the production of hundreds of other documents, and published an unnumbered amount of book reviews. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Ma Lei Hsieh & Melissa Hofmann, Rider University Ma Lei Hsieh and Melissa A. Hofmann presented "Research Instruction Through Librarian-Faculty Collaboration Using Engaging Strategies" at the 2013 Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy at Virgina Tech in Blacksburg, VA, in February.
New Jersey Librarians @ACRL Conference in Indianapolis1) Mark Thompson , Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ Thursday, April 11th 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM Submitted Paper was accepted (published in Proceedings) and slides are uploaded into Virtual ACRL 2013. Melding the Nitty Gritty of Critical Thinking and Information Literacy into English Developmental and Composition Classes Program Description: Working together, librarians and English developmental/composition faculty can meld student learning objectives from information literacy and English to net more dynamic and effective lesson plans. Integrating critical skills from both arenas, the library and classroom sessions reinforce one another. For example, core reading skills (comprehension and inference) can be highlighted in screening search hits and abstracts. Critical thinking skills that “use” information are essential for integrating source material into the student essay.
2) Lisa Rose-Wiles, Seton Hall University Library and Melissa Hofmann, Rider University Libraries Thursday, April 11th 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM Program Description: Discuss how web scale discovery tools affect user behavior and approaches to library instruction, and the implications of discovery tools for information literacy at academic libraries. Share and learn strategies for teaching information literacy skills within a discovery tool environment.
3) Eleonora Dubicki, Reference and Instruction Librarian at Monmouth University, NJ. Friday, April 12th 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM Inquire, Investigate, Implement: Examining Faculty Perceptions of Students’ Information Literacy Skills that Reveal Opportunities for Collaboration (Poster) 4) Panel Session Marie Radford , Rutgers University , New Brunswick , NJ Friday, April 12th 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Inspiring Initiatives in Qualitative Inquiry 5) Speakers: Stephanie Mikitish , Rutgers University , New Brunswick , NJ and Marie Radford , School of Communication and Information , New Brunswick , NJ Saturday, April 13th 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM Initial Impressions: Investigating How Future Faculty Value Academic Libraries Program Description: Although doctoral students soon become academic faculty, they are an understudied population in academic library research. This exploratory study consists of interviews with 15 doctoral students who are teaching assistants/instructors in social sciences at a public research university. In-depth structured interviews will be conducted with 15 participants at the beginning and again at the end of one semester. Data will undergo qualitative analysis to identify perceptions of library value and track changes over time. |
Announcements & News
Panel Discussion Recap: Professional Organizations 101
Submitted by Lisa DeLuca
SCARLA and the NJLA-CUS Membership Committee sponsored a panel discussion at Rutgers on October 23, 2012 entitled: Professional Organizations 101. If you missed this event, you can watch the video recording on YouTube
Have questions about professional organizations? Don't know which to join? How to join? How to participate? Find out how to get involved and network your way to a library job!
The speakers for this event were:
* Karen Klapperstuck, current NJLA President
* Janet Weiss of the Special Library Association
* Lisa DeLuca, Membership Chair for the College and University/ACRL section of NJLA
* Nancy Kranich, Founder and Chair of the ALA Center for Civic Life Advisory Committee and former President of the ALA
Rutgers' Dana Library Receives $180,000 Grant to Create Two Media-Rich Learning Spaces
By Harry Glazer
In the fall the John Cotton Dana Library on Rutgers' Newark campus was notified that it received a $180,000 grant from the Booth Ferris Foundation to create two multimedia group study spaces on the first floor of the library. One group study space will focus on multimedia production, with a widescreen LCD panel and workstations with multimedia authoring and editing software for digital productions. The other group study space will focus on collaborative teamwork, with a SMARTboard and workstations with business presentation software for collaborative presentation design. Both rooms will boast comfortable furniture, easily accessible power and data ports, and cutting-edge computer equipment.
The new multimedia group study rooms, slated to be completed in December 2013, will be uniquely positioned to also draw on preexisting strengths of the library. Both rooms will be located near the library's reference desk and the computer lab, allowing users to consult with reference librarians and computer lab staff and to learn about digital resources that might support their projects.
The Booth Ferris Foundation, based in Dallas, Texas, was established under the wills of Willis H. Booth and his wife Chancie Ferris Booth. Willis H. Booth was vice president of both the Guaranty Trust Company and Hotpoint Electric Heating Company. The foundation set up in his and his wife's names makes grants primarily for education, smaller colleges, and independent secondary schools, with some support for urban programs, social service agencies, and cultural activities.
To read more of this story, please see:
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/news/13/02_dana_multimedia_space.shtml
Harry Glazer is Communications Director at the Rutgers University Libraries. He can be reached at hglazer@rulmail.rutgers.edu.