Technology innovation Award Winners

Congratulations to this year’s winners of the NJLA College and University Section Technology Innovation Award:

* Choong Hoong Liew, Web Designer; and Mei Ling Lo, Math/Computer Science Librarian at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey for “The Rutgers Library Toolbar” project using the LibX Toolbar plug-in. (See: http://www.libx.org/ ).

To watch the winners present the Rutgers Library Toolbar project and presentations from all the excellent nominees for this year’s Technology Innovation Award, come to the Technology Innovation Forum on Wednesday, April 30th, at 3:30PM at the NJLA 2008 Conference at the Ocean Place Resort in Long Branch, NJ.

The names and projects of the nominees for the NJLA CUS Technology Innovation Award for 2008 are the following:

1) Project: Building the Virtual Library.
Presenter: Craig Anderson, Reference Librarian, Nancy Thompson Library, Kean University.
See the Kean U. Library 2.0 Web site at: http://library.kean.edu/web2.html .

2) Project: Online Information Literacy Tutorials.
Presenter: Sharon Yang, Systems Librarian, Rider University Libraries.
To view the online tutorials, see: http://www.rider.edu/172_5851.htm .

3) Project: eCRC Online Library Projects at the ADP Center for Teacher Preparation and Learning Technologies, Montclair State University.
Presenter: Joe Russo, Curriculum Resource Center Coordinator, ADP Center for Teacher Preparation and Learning Technologies, Montclair State University. For more information and to visit the eCRC open-source Koha catalog and other Library 2.0 CRC projects, view them online at: http://cehs.montclair.edu/academic/ADP/ecrc.html

4) Project: LibGuides at Princeton University Libraries.
Presenter: Nancy Pressman Levy, Librarian for Public and International Affairs and Population Research Library, Princeton University Donald E. Stokes Library. For more information, visit the project online at: http://libguides.princeton.edu/ .

5) Project: The Rutgers Library Toolbar.
Presenters: Choong Hoong Liew, Web Designer; and Mei Ling Lo, Math/Computer Science Librarian at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. For more information on the LibX Toolbar plug-in, see: http://www.libx.org/ .

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Register now for the NJLA 2008 Conference online at: http://www.njla.org/conference/2008/ .

Early bird registration ends April 4th!
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* Mary Mallery, Ph.D.
* Chair, NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Technology Committee
* Assoc. Dean for Technical Services
* Harry A. Sprague Library
* Montclair State University
* Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
* Phone: 973-655-7150
* Fax: 973-655-7780
* E-mail: mallerym@mail.montclair.edu
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Update on the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative

The original NJKI ended on February 28, 2008, due to a shortfall in state funding despite a massive effort on behalf of the library and business community to advocate for a restoration of funds. The program is now budgeted for $2 million in FY 2009, which will most likely mean cutbacks in terms of the number of vendors, the number of databases and/or the number of customers the program can serve. Norma Blake, State Librarian, and others will be participating in a meeting arranged by the Governor’s Office with agencies that may have both an interest in this initiative and funding to contribute. This meeting is scheduled for April 22. The NJKI Task Force will be asked to meet after this date and another update to the field will be sent after that meeting.

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Kathleen Moeller-Peiffer, MSLS
Associate State Librarian for Library Development
New Jersey State Library
Mail: P.O. Box 520 [Location: 185 West State Street] Trenton NJ 08625-0520
Ph: (609) 278-2640 ext. 170; fax: (609) 278-2650 kpeiffer@njstatelib.org
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