VALE 2010 Conference Registration Now OPEN!

We are pleased to announce that registration for the annual VALE Users’ / NJ ACRL / NJLA CUS Conference on Friday, January 8, 2010 is open! Please find the agenda and registration form online at http://www.valenj.org .

Alex Wright, Director of User Experience and Product Research at The New York Times and the author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages, will deliver the Keynote Address.

We’ve retained a schedule that includes three periods for breakout sessions, as well as poster sessions you can visit in the morning and between other sessions. Please indicate your breakout session selection for each of the 3 time slots on the registration form.  Poster sessions do not require a separate registration.

Presenters and SCILS volunteers: please do not forget to register!

Visit the VALE web site at http://www.valenj.org and REGISTER ONLINE by December 16, 2009. Late registrants will be wait-listed.

A new feature of the 2010 registration is that you must first create an account at the conference website before you can register for the conference. Your account details will be used for registration purposes, and will allow conference attendees to contribute comments and feedback to the site at a later date.

To ensure delivery of our email please add vale-noreply@valenj.org to your email address book.

Judy Avrin will send registration confirmations after January 1. Please direct any questions about registration to her at AvrinJ@wpunj.edu .

We look forward to seeing you all at the conference on January 8!

Jan Skica and Trevor A. Dawes
Conference Co-Chairs

VALE Last Copy Program Presentation to VALE Members Council

Pamela Theus and Mary Mallery presented on the VALE Last Copy Program to the VALE Members Council on September 25, 2009. The VALE Last Copy Program is a subcommittee of the VALE Cooperative Collection Management Committee and is open to all VALE member libraries.

Snapshot Day, October 7, 2009

Snapshot Day Success in Six Simple Steps

ALL libraries are welcome to participate. 

Step 1  -  Let your staff know you are participating in Snapshot Day on October 7, 2009.  Build up the excitement!

Step 2  -  Visit our wiki: http://njla.pbworks.com/Snapshot. Print out the form http://fs19.formsite.com/njla/form250483359/index.html, review it with your staff and keep copies at all of your service desks. 

Step 3  – Keep up to date by reading our blog at http://njsnapshotday.wordpress.com.

Step 4 – Participate on October 7, 2009 (or whichever date you’ve selected)

Step 5 -  Submit your statistics, comments from customers and photos by October 16.
(It’s easy!  Step-by-step instructions and helpful handouts on our wiki)

Step 6  -  While the day and activities are fresh in your mind, USE the results!  Great ideas at http://njla.pbworks.com/f/20+Easy+Ways.doc.

 
Still confused?  You can call or e-mail two of our committee members: Marian Bauman, Director, Neptune Public Library (732) 775-8241, mbauman@neptunetownship.org  or Ingrid Bruck, Director, Long Branch Public Library, 732-222-3948, ibruck@lmxac.org

The Snapshot Day Committee

Peggy Cadigan, New Jersey State Library, co-chair 609-278-2640, X113,pcadigan@njstatelib.org

Heidi Cramer, Newark Public Library, co-chair 973-733-7837,

hcramer@npl.org

  

Heidi Amici, Monmouth County Library

Marian Bauman, Neptune Public Library

Michelle Brewer, New Jersey Hospital Association

Ingrid Bruck, Long Branch Public Library

April Bunn, NJASL

Trevor Dawes, Princeton University

Karen Klapperstuck, Monroe Township Public Library

Pat Massey, NJASL President

Mary Moyer, NJASL Legislative Committee Chair, NJEA Liaison 

Connie Paul, Executive Director, CJRLC

David Pinto, Stockton State College

Patricia Tumulty, Executive Director, NJLA

Carolyn Wood, West Deptford Library, NJLA PR Committee

The Information Literacy Life Cycle of Litetia

The VALE Shared Information Literacy Committee is pleased to present a one day program on Thursday June 25, 2009 at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft (NJ). Bookings can be made online at: https://jedi.tcnj.edu/webteam/cgi-bin/formgenie/formgenie.pl?form=33350

“The Information Literacy Life Cycle of Litetia”

“Litetia” is a very lucky girl as she has been exposed to information literacy from an early age. Come and find out what Litetia has learned from librarians at elementary school through to a four year college. As well as hearing about Litetia’s information literacy experiences, you will also get the opportunity to plan how you might develop more students like Litetia in a perfect world.

10:00       Registration and Coffee

10:30       Welcome and Introduction

10:45       Litetia at Prospect Park Elementary School – Claire Houghton-Kiel

11:15       Litetia at Randolph Middle School – Diana Rodriguez

11:45       Litetia at North Hunterdon High School – Martha Hickson

12:15       Lunch

1:00        Litetia at the County College of Morris – Lynee Richel

1:30        Litetia at the New Jersey Institute of Technology – Heather Huey

2:00        Group work to develop an information literacy plan through the educational stages

3:00        Feedback from groups

3:30        Close

Cost – $15 per person (including lunch). Bookings can be made online at:https://jedi.tcnj.edu/webteam/cgi-bin/formgenie/formgenie.pl?form=33350

Please book by June 19. For more information, contact Jacqui DaCosta (E: dacosta@tcnj.edu; P: 609-771-2418)

Jacqui DaCosta,

Information Literacy Librarian,

The College of New Jersey

PO Box 7718

Ewing, NJ 08628-0718, U.S.A.

Tel: 609-771-2418

The Future of Libraries Meeting

“The Future of Libraries” sponsored by Fairleigh Dickinson University will be held on June 18^th at the FDU Library at Florham.  The program will be from 10:00-2:00. The program will feature two university library leaders- Anne Ciliberti, Director of the William Paterson University Library and Richard Sweeney, University Librarian of the NJIT University debating the five top issues facing academic librarians.  Cathy Wilt, president of LYRASIS will discuss prospects for new library collaboration.  The fee for the day is $10.00.  Contact Colleen DiGregorio at colleend@fdu.edu

• When: Thursday June 18, 2009 from 10:00 am to 2:00pm
  
• Where: Faireleigh Dickinson University Library, Florham Campus
• Cost: $10.00
  

FY10 Statewide Databases

FROM: Kathleen Moeller-Peiffer, Associate State Librarian for Library Development

SUBJECT: FY10 statewide databases

DATE: June 9, 2009

Although realizing that nothing is final until the budget has been passed by the State Legislature, at this time it appears that the FY10 budget will not allow the following statewide database licenses to be renewed by the State Library:

• Business Source Premier;
• Frost and Sullivan (previously licensed for NJKI business customers);
• Heritage Quest

The NJ State Library is, whenever possible, transferring database costs to federal and other funding. We will notify everyone when we get the final word regarding our FY10 allocation.

At this time the databases that the State Library plans to continue for statewide access are:

All current EBSCO database offerings with the exception of Business Source Premier;

• Novelist Plus and Novelist Plus K-8;
• Gale Custom Newspapers (minus the Star Ledger after October 31, 2009);
• RefUSA;
• Academic Search Premier for VALE, K-12 & Public Libraries.

Hold the Date for the 2010 Users’ Conference

Please mark Friday, January 8, 2010 on your calendars, the date for the annual VALE/NJ-ACRL/NJLA-CUS Users’ Conference. The Conference will again be held at the Rutgers – Busch Campus Center in Piscataway.

As co-chair of the Planning Committee, with Trevor Dawes (Princeton University), the incoming Chair of the NJ Chapter of ACRL, I invite and encourage those of you who are interested in working on the Planning Committe to contact me. We will schedule a Committee meeting in the near future and welcome your help in developing another interesting and thought provoking program for the 2010 Conference.

Thank you -
Jan Skica

VALE FY10 Database Renewal Pricing

Dear VALE Members,

I know everyone is eagerly awaiting the VALE FY10 database renewal packets but there have been unusual delays this year, in large part due to continuing negotiations to obtain flat renewal pricing or to minimize  increases.

State funding of Academic Search Premier remains unknown at this time but it is our understanding that support for it remains a high priority of the State Library.  We do not expect to have more information until July after the State Legislature has passed the budget.

We hope to send them by Wednesday 4/29 or Thursday 4/30 at the latest.  Please note, they will be sent as pdf attachements to the the Directors’ listserv and an announcement will be posted to the VALE list when they have been sent.

Thank you, Judy

OLE Project Seeks VALE Input

The OLE Project is preparing its Open Library Environment Requirements document and will soon make this available for comments from VALE. It is an important opportunity for the VALE community to see the accumulated document that reflects workflow and process modeling exercises conducted around the country. VALE members should reflect on this information and ask themselves (and one another) “does this capture the essence and the extent of the work we do?” OLE will look with interest at VALE’s commentary. Are all possible library activities represented? Is anything missing?

We need to understand that our current library system and our habits, customs and policies have strongly shaped the way we conduct the library operations of lending, reserves, acquisitions, cataloging, and periodicals management. It is important, as we review the forthcoming OLE documents, to try to separate ourselves from the constraints of our current ILS and, even more difficult, our habitual practices. Are the generic workflows, activities and processes all there?

More coming soon.

Kurt W. Wagner William Paterson University wagnerk@wpunj.edu 973-720-2285

Sharon Yang Rider University yangs@rider.edu 609-895-5730

NJVid Launches as Resource for Educational Videos

Dear VALE Librarians:

I would like to call your attention to the recent launch of the NJVid Commons.  NJVid is an IMLS grant-funded statewide video portal and centralized repository that provides online presentation, storage and archiving of New Jersey institutions’ videos.  NJVid’s developers are currently accepting video submissions for the Commons.  For more information, please visit www.njvid.net, and click on the “About” tab from the menu at the top of the page.  This would be a great service for New Jersey K-12 schools, colleges, universities and public libraries that want to provide online access to their educational and informational video collections.

 Please explore this wonderful new opportunity! 

Anne Ciliberti, Library Director, William Paterson University