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

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.