NJLA 2007 Spring Conference, April 24-25, 2007

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  Technology Innovation Award 2007
  Marie Saimbert's "Creating New Library Spaces" project won the NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ ChapterTechnology Innovation Award 2007.
  Presented at the Technology Innovation Forum, go to NJLA 2007 Technology Innovation Forum Web site to view the presentations.

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  Research Award 2006
  Laura Bowering Mullen, the Behavioral Sciences Librarian in the Library of Science and Medicine, and Karen Hartman, the Social Sciences Librarian in the Archibald S. Alexander Library won for their article, “Google Scholar and the library web site: The early response by ARL libraries” published in College & Research Libraries, 67(2), 106-122.

• Eleonora Dubicki, Monmouth University; Annemarie Roscello, Bergen Community College; and Ruth Hamann, Passaic County Community College, presenting on "Incorporating Tutorials into Library Instruction."

• Leslie Murtha, Princeton University Library, presented on "Captivating First-Year Students: A Different Take on a Web Tour."

• Eileen Stec, Rutgers University Libraries, presented on "What Makes a Journal Scholarly?"

• Nicole Cooke and William Vincenti, Montclair State University Library, presented on "Captivate tutorials, now that we can build them, What's Next?"

• Edward Corrado, Systems Librarian, The College of New Jersey Library, presented a session on "Models for Open Source Integrated Library Systems."

• Grace Agnew, Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems, Rutgers University Libraries, presented a session on "Rutgers University Community Repository (RUCore) Project"

• Michael Giarlo, Digital Library Specialist, Princeton University Libraries, presented on "A library revolution: Returning the means of production via service discovery, systems integration, and open standards."

• The NJLA Blog has additional coverage and links to College and Unviersity Section Conference sessions at: http://blog.njla.org/archives/academic_libraries/.

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  Nicole Cooke, 2006-7 President ACRL-NJ Chapter and Karen Topham, Incoming President ACRL-NJ Chapter.

  NJLA College & University Section / ACRL – NJ Chapter Luncheon
  Featuring
  Luis Rodriguez, Dean, Kean University Library, and ACRL-NJ Legislative Representative.See http://library.kean.edu.
  Program Title: "Privacy Issues in Academic Libraries".

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  Distinguished Service Award 2007
  Luis Rodriguez, Kean University Library, Distinguished Service Award 2007 Winner.

NJLA 2007 Poster Sessions from Tuesday, April 24th and Wednesday, April 25th

Check out the NJLA CUS sessions that were blogged live at the conference at: http://blog.njla.org/archives/academic_libraries/. For more information, visit the NJLA 2007 Conference Website at: http://www.njla.org/conference/2007/.