Present: (Brookdale CC) Karen Topham, Eleonora Dubicki, Trevor A. Dawes; Present (Montclair): Richard Kearney, Jessica Vanderhoff; Ruth Hamann

Absent: Nicole Cooke; Mary Mallery, Mark Thompson; Luis Rodriguez; Julie Maginn; Julie Still; Theo Haynes; Steven Shapiro

Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 1010AM due to technical difficulties at Brookdale.

Minutes: Approval of September 14th meeting minutes.

1. No quorum, so minutes will be adopted by email. One change noted – correction to Eleonora’s name.

President’s report: – KT

1. Heard from Leslie. They haven’t received information about the group and their board is meeting next week. CUS has put forth some proposals to work with them on programs with the K-12 group. User Education Committee is considering programming with this group. Highlands region did program and would be good to repeat. What is needed (in terms of information literacy) in the K-12 setting? KT will follow-up.
   
2. Pat Tumulty has reached out to see if anyone wants to be co-chair of the NJLA Resource Sharing Round Table. Caroline Brown (Montclair Public) is co-chair. Mary Mallery suggested starting with the VALE resource sharing committee for volunteers. No response received yet, but still early; message only sent recently.
   

   Committee Reports

   Research Reported by MT via email to KT
   

   1. Meeting set for October 12 at Seton Hall; call for proposals will be finalized. NJLA Conference Theme: Valuing Libraries, Librarians and Library Staff. Committee would like our feedback on the Electronic Publication award. This award will be for next year and would be publicized in the spring newsletter. The idea is that this would be a separate award because most proposals are geared towards print and they would like to recognize electronic publications (e-only publications, websites, etc.) See draft sent by KT earlier.
      
   2. Question: are there sufficient “electronic publications” to warrant a new and separate award?
      
   3. Question: What will the criteria be for selecting the award? Peer review, etc. Perhaps we need to highlight the electronic publications more in the call for proposals, rather than establishing a separate award.
      
   4. Comment: This is a research award. What sorts of websites, as an example, would represent website.
      
   5. Comment: criteria already exists for judging electronic publications (see CHOICE, for example).

   Technology Reported by MM via email to KT
   

   1. First meeting will be held at Rutgers U. on October 24th from 10AM to noon. The preliminary agenda includes:
      
      • Chair Report
        
      • Review of NJLA 2007 Conference Programs
        
      • NJLA 2008 Conference Program Planning (bring suggestions)
        
      • NJLA 2008 Tech. Innovation Award Nominees
        
      • Review of the Tech. Committee Web site
        
      • Coordination with other NJ Tech. Committees
        
      • Tech. Innovation Award Competition will be held on Friday, March 14th at Rutgers U. Scholarly Communication Center. Deadline is Feb. 1st for nominations.
        
      • Sent in text of Tech. Innovation Award Nomination Guidelines for Fall 2007 CUS Newsletter.

   CUS Web Site Update Reported by MM via email to KT
   
   1. Added the approved and amended June, 2007 Minutes to the Exec. Board Minutes.
      
   2. Updated the Distinguished Service Award Nominations Guidelines page at: http://www.njla.org/njacrl/2008distaward.html
      
   3. Updated the Technology Innovation Award Nomination Guidelines online at: http://www.njla.org/njacrl/techinnov.html
      
   4. Updated the NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ History Page at: http://www.njla.org/njacrl/CUS/cus.html
      
   5. Updated the NJLA 2007 Conference CUS Presentations page at: http://www.njla.org/njacrl/NJLAConf2007.html
      
   6. Note: Still need Luis Rodriguez's presentation Powerpoint from NJLA07 Conference CUS luncheon.
      
   7. Please send me any News items and/or announcements of workshops for the “What's New” Web page.
      
   8. Contacted Ray Cummins at Burlington County College. As of October 1st, he transferred the entire CUS Website to: http://njacrl.njla.org . We will make the transition to njacrl during the month of October so that there will be a redirect from the old URL of http://www.njla.org/njacrl .
      
   9. CUS 60th Anniversary Celebration
      
      
      • Sent in a Call for Historical Library Photos to celebrate the 60th anniversary of NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ to the Fall 2007 NJLA CUS Newsletter. Will report to Exec. Board on results and send out an email Call for photos to NJLA CUS and ACRL-NJ listservs later in the year.
        
      • After the NJLA Conference Committee meeting, MM spoke to Cindy Czesak and Pat Tumulty, and they agreed that NJLA will give CUS a cake to celebrate the 60th Anniversary at the luncheon on May 1 at the NJLA 2008 Conference.

   User Education – ED reported for TH
   

   1. Last meeting on September 28.
      
   2. A lot of discussion about the ACRL Immersion program and about what other librarians are doing about active learning in the classroom.
      
   3. Next meeting will discuss use of clickers. Lynee Richel (County College of Morris) has been using clickers.
      
   4. Jacqui DaCosta (TCNJ) on the Cephalonian method. There will be a workshop at ALA midwinter.
      
   5. Will have a break-out session and lunch table at VALE ’08.
      
   6. Information literacy K-20 program. Similar to that done by Highlands region. Seeking a good time.
      
   7. Contact elected officials to endorse No Child Left Behind. ALA Council has supported.
      
   8. Community College general education guidelines for information literacy. Committee will make recommendations. Next meeting October 19.

   Membership – JV reported
   

   1. Seton Hall has agreed to keep maintaining the mailing list. There was a problem with the mailing list. We should check the information on the list to see what rights people have; some indicated inability to post messages. TAD will investigate. Currently 250 people on the list.

   Newsletter – JM reported
   

   1. Newsletter took more time than normal, but has a wealth of information.
      
   2. Thanks to Julie from KT.

   Report from NJLA Executive Board – NC reported via email to KT
   

   1. The One Book NJ program is now housed under NJLA's Readers' Advisory Committee.  It was noted by Anne Ciliberti that William Paterson's library sponsors a program each year based on the One Book selections.  The board was not aware that academics participated, so if your library participates in any way with OBNJ, please do let NJLA know.
      
   2. A NJLA Legal Defense Fund has been established - housed under NJLA's Intellectual Freedom Committee.
      
   3. It's not too late to volunteer for NJLA sections and committees.
      
   4. The New Jersey State Library's 2007-2010 Strategic Plan (the executive summary) is now online at their website.
      
   5. Q&A NJ had a commercial aired during the recent MTV music awards and has noticed a significant increase in usage.
      
   6. Efforts to have the month of October designated National Book Club month is underway.
      
   7. State Librarian Norma Blake was unaware of all the letters / testimonials libraries (especially academic libraries) have been sending in on behalf of the NJ Knowledge Initiative - she has received notification of 2 letters.  In the future, please be sure to CC Norma Blake on any correspondence.  Advocacy is still very necessary - we are currently missing $1 million dollars in funding.  And not only do we need that $1 million dollars restored, we need to maintain the current $2 million dollars in funding.  A banner ad was to be places on the REF USA site alerting users about the NJKI plight, urging them to call their representatives to advocated for NJKI.  It was also emphasized that phone calls (as opposed to emails and letters) are more effective.  Finally, the name Angie McGuire of the Office of Economic Growth was mentioned as a person to call in support of NJKI.

   Old Business

   1. RH: Deadline for proposals to VALE conference has been extended through Monday, 08 October. NJLA-CUS should have a table.

   New Business

   1. RK reported on attending the NJLA Conference Planning Meeting September 20. MM also attended. Great detail about the calendar was reviewed. Conference proposal deadline will be November 16. They will use an online proposal form. Form will be online shortly. Outside speakers will be confirmed by December. CUS sessions usually take place on the last day (May 1). Conference will be Tuesday through Thursday which isn’t typical. A lot of detail about financial matters and information with respect to outside speakers, hotel information.
      
   2. Nicole attended NJLA Executive Board meeting. She will submit report electronically
      
   3. LIBQUAL+ meeting at Alexander Library on October 31. Staff from participating libraries will meet there. 10 NJ institutions currently plan to participate. There is planned discussion about new customized questions for NJ libraries and also how previous results have been utilized.

   Adjourned at 11:00 am.

   Next meeting: Friday 02 November. KT will work on meetings for the spring term (February, March April, June 2008)

   Respectfully submitted,

   Trevor A. Dawes
   Secretary