NJLA 2009 Spring Conference, April 28 - April 29, 2009

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  Richard Kearney, 2008-2009 President ACRL-NJ Chapter and Trevor Dawes, Incoming President ACRL-NJ Chapter.

  NJLA College & University Section / ACRL – NJ Chapter Luncheon
  Featuring
  Eileen Fenton Executive Director of Portico, speaking on "Digital Preservation: Observations and Opportunities".

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  Distinguished Service Award 2009
  Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries, NJLA CUS Distinguished Service Award 2009 Winner.

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  Technology Innovation Award 2009
  Kurt Wagner - Coordination & Project Management, James DeRose – System Administration, Tony Joachim - Application Development , Mark Sandford - Application Development, and Raymond Schwartz - Application Development, at William Paterson University, of the "Cheng Library Information-on-Demand Project” won the NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ ChapterTechnology Innovation Award 2008.
  Presented at the Technology Innovation Forum, go to NJLA 2009 Technology Innovation Forum Web site to view the presentations.

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  Research Award 2008
  Cathy Weng, Head of Cataloging, and Jia Mi, Electronic Resources/Serials Librarian, of The College of New Jersey Librarywon for their article "Revitalizing the Library OPAC: Interface, Searching, and Display Challenges," published in Information Technology and Libraries, v. 27, no. 1 (March 2008).

  CUS-Sponsored Sessions with links to presentations:

• Open Source Library Systems Panel Session Open Source Library Systems Developments Panel Session with
  
  1. Judy Gardner and John Brennan on the Project OLE Team at Rutgers,
     
  2. Mike Giarlo on Project Conifer of the Evergreen OLS, and
     
  3. Robert Karen, WALDO Koha Project
  
  Sponsored by: College and University Section/ACRL-NJ Technology Committee

• Technology Innovation Forum: Features the nominees and winner(s) of the 2009 NJLA College and University Section Technology Innovation Award. Sponsored by: College and University Section / ACRL-NJ Technology Committee

• NJVid Video Portal Project presented by Grace Agnew, Rutgers University Libraries, and Sandra Miller, William Paterson University. Sponsored by: College and University Section / ACRL-NJ Technology Committee

• Are We Half-Way on the Long Road towards Subject Guide 2.0? by Sharon Yang, Rider University Libraries. Sponsored by: College and University Section / ACRL-NJ Technology Committee

• College Students as Wikipedia Authors by Davida Scharf, NJIT; and Prof. James Lipuma, NJIT. Sponsored by: College and University Section / ACRL-NJ User Education Committee

• Research Forum features NJ librarians discussing their current library research projects.
  
  1. Web-based ciatation management software and the impact of metadata quality on user-driven metadata reuse by Yuji Tosaka, Cataloging/Metadata LibrarianThe College of New Jersey.
  
  Sponsored by: College and University Section / ACRL-NJ Research Committee

  NJLA 2009 Poster Sessions from Tuesday, April 28th, and Wednesday, April 29th

  For more information, visit the NJLA 2009 Conference Website at: http://njla.pbworks.com/Conference+2009.

  

  

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  Last updated: July 21, 2009