NJLA 2010 Spring Conference, April 27 - April 28, 2010

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  Trevor Dawes, President ACRL-NJ Chapter and Eleonora Dubicki, Incoming President ACRL-NJ Chapter.

  NJLA College & University Section / ACRL – NJ Chapter Luncheon
  Featuring and
  Sister Anita Talar, Seton Hall University, and Dan O’Connor, Rutgers University, co-founders of the NJLA College and University Section Research Committee, celebrating the 25th anniversary of our section’s Research Committee. The Research Committee, formed in 1985, has given the Research Award for the best published research by a NJ librarian since 1988. The 39 past Research Award winners were also recognized at the luncheon.

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  Distinguished Service Award 2010
  David Pinto, VALE Executive Board Chair, and Director, Richard Stockton College Library, NJLA CUS Distinguished Service Award 2010 Winner.

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  Technology Innovation Award 2010
  won the NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ ChapterTechnology Innovation Award 2010 for their project "Access in the Stacks".

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  Research Award 2009
  Randell Schmidt, Head Librarian, Gill St. Bernard’s School, Maureen Smith, School Library Media Specialist at South Hunterdon Regional High School in Lambertville, and Virginia Kowalski, Middle School Librarian and Upper School Reference Librarian, at Gill St. Bernard's School in Gladstone, New Jersey,
  won for their book: Lessons For a Scientific Literature Review: Guiding the Inquiry. Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited, 2009.

  CUS-Sponsored Sessions with links to presentations:

• Technology Innovation Forum
  
  1. 2010 Technology Innovation Award winner -- "Access in the Stacks" by Gary Golden and John Gibson, Rutgers University Libraries, Camden: See Access in the Stacks.ppt.

  2. "Online Video Tutorials Project” by Mary Ann Trail and David Lechner, Richard Stockton College Library: See http://intraweb.stockton.edu/eyos/page.cfm?siteID=86&pageID=382

  3. "UMDNJ's Quick Search Tool" by Fengzhi Fan – Systems Librarian, Yingting Zhang – Information & Education Librarian, Robert Cupryk – Information & Education Librarian, and Kerry O’Rourke – Campus Library Director, UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Library of the Health Sciences. See Implementing_Quick_Search_UMDNJ.ppt

  4. "IntegraL Search Tool" by Min Song – Assistant Professor, Information Systems Department; and Ann Hoang – Assistant University Librarian, Robert W. Van Houten Library, NJIT: See integral-njla2010-tech-innov-forum.pdf

• "What You Should Know About Implementing an eBook Reader Program" Panel Session
  
  1. Denise O'Shea (Moderator), Fairleigh Dickinson University Libraries. See E-Reader Loan Program FAQ.
     
  2. Binky Lush and Ann Behler (Penn State University Libraries. See http://www.slideshare.net/binkylush/new-jersey-library-association-sony-reader-panel.
     
  3. Nancy Pressman-Levy, Princeton University Libraries. See http://libguides.princeton.edu/kindle.
     
  4. Diane Lapsley (Sparta Public Library).

NJLA 2010 Poster Sessions from Tuesday, April 27th, and Wednesday, April 28th

For more information, visit the NJLA 2010 Conference wiki at: http://njla.pbworks.com/Conference+2010.
For more photos, please see the ACRL-NJ Flickr site at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/njla-cus-acrlnj/.