Everything You Wanted to Know About Teaching Information Literacy
But Were Too Afraid to Ask

Monday, June 7, 2010
9:15AM – 3:30PM

Rider University

Fireside Lounge (2nd floor), The Bart Luedeke Center (Student Center)
2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08540

Breakout sessions:
Citation Station
Critical Evaluation of Resources
Instructional Design
Marketing Electronic Resources
Research LibGuides
Rubrics for Learning, Review, and Assessment
Web 2.0 for Information Literacy
“What do you mean this isn’t scholarly?”  Strategies for Teaching Scholarly vs. Popular Sources

Registration fee (includes Continental breakfast and lunch)
* Member NJLA or ACRL $25.00
* Nonmember $37.50
* Student $12.50

Mail with payment (check, credit card or Purchase Order) to:
NJLA, PO Box 1534, Trenton, NJ 08607 or fax to 609-394-8164

Deadline for registration: May 20, 2010
The attached file includes detailed program descriptions and registration form. Register early for limited space!

Friday, May 21, 2010
9:30AM – 3:30PM
Montclair State University ADP Center
Montclair, NJ

Keynote Speaker:
Timothy Cherubini, Director of Content Innovation, Lyrasis

Presenting:
“Where are we going? ebook Collections in Academic Libraries”

Followed by presentations on ebook collections and a vendor panel session with:
•    Denise O’Shea – Fairleigh Dickinson U. Library and NJLA CUS Technology Committee Chair
•    Pamela Theus – William Paterson University Library and VALE Cooperative Collection Management Committee Chair
•    Gracemary Smulewitz and Mary Beth Weber, Rutgers U. Libraries
•    Elizabeth Sosnowska, Electronic Resources Librarian, UMDNJ
•    Luis Rodriguez, Linda Cifelli and Shirley Horbatt, Kean U. Library EBL Pilot
•    Mary Mallery, Montclair State U. on CJRLC/INFOLINK netLibrary Collection
•    Richard Stern and Lisa Rose-Wiles, Seton Hall University ebrary Collection
•    Vendors Panel Session: IGI Global, Springer, Books 24/7, and others

Registration fee (includes Continental breakfast, lunch and parking)
*Member NJLA or ACRLnj $25.00
*Nonmember $37.50
*Student $12.50

Please fill out the registration form at:
http://www.njla.org/njacrl/ebookCollSymposium.pdf
and mail with payment (check or credit card) or PO to:
NJLA, PO Box 1534, Trenton, NJ 08607 or fax to 609-394-8164

Deadline for registration: May 10, 2010

Registration Open for ebooks Collections Symposium on Friday, May 21, at Montclair State U. ADP Center

CoChairs: Brian Richards, Middlesex County College & Laura Barrett, UMDNJ

Register here

Here is our draft program for the day:

10.00 am Breakfast
10.30 am Introductions
10.45 am FDU eReader Pilot
11.30 am Princeton eReader Pilot
12.15 am Lunch
12.45 pm Seton Hall eReader Pilot
1.15 pm Open Textbook Project
1.30 pm VALE eBook Task Force
1.45 pm Pearson
2.45 pm Summary Q & A
3.00 pm Finish

MAY 25, 2010

Rutgers Busch Campus Center, Piscataway

9:30 am to 12:30 pm

• Are you preparing for a Middle States visit and worrying about library assessment?

• Are you looking for a good assessment tool but don’t know where to start?  Or have you found a promising technique for uncovering your users’ real needs?

• Are you interested in learning about assessment projects used at other VALE libraries? Or have you conducted a project you’d like to showcase and share?

• Have you developed your own assessment method or tool?  Or found a commercial product that had value?

• Do you just want to know “what’s out there”?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, please read on!

The VALE Assessment Committee, in partnership with the VALE Shared Information Committee, will be hosting a half-day Assessment Fair designed to inform VALE librarians about a variety of assessment techniques and products as well as to showcase individual library’s assessment successes.  The Fair will feature overviews of all kinds of assessment tools and projects such as:

• Information literacy student learning outcomes
• Collection analyses
• User studies
• Web usability studies
• Vendor performance evaluations
• User satisfaction studies
• ILL and document delivery assessments
• ROI investigations

Join us either as a Presenter or a Learner!

Presenters: Any VALE library, VALE committee or individual librarian is invited to showcase and share an assessment technique, presented either as a poster-type display or at an individual table.  Basic information about your project and the techniques used should be displayed and handouts made available (a template of information required will be provided). Complete the attached brief submission form and send to Jeanne Boyle.* Assessment Committee members will review all proposals and select those most applicable to the VALE audience.

Learners:   Mark your calendars now for this important event!  More information to come!

The VALE Assessment Fair

May 25, 2010

9:30 to 12:30

Busch Campus Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
(40.521052,-74.457657)
(Directions:  http://maps.rutgers.edu/directions.aspx?id=44)

Lots of free parking

* Jeanne Boyle
University Libraries Administration
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

OR

jeboyle@rci.rutgers.edu

Assessessment Fair Submission Form

http://capwiz.com/ala/nj/utr/1/IXPMMGCLZR/BYABMGCMAX/4898317546

We need your voices to be heard in Trenton!, Thank you,

Pat Tumulty
NJLA Executive Director

Seating is limited. Please register by sending an email to Jane Hutchison at hutchisonj@wpunj.edu. You will be confirmed with a return email and a quick information sheet to complete that will be distributed at the meeting. Background readings will be provided with your confirmation. Registration closes on March 23rd. There is a $35 registration charge for lunch and cleaning.

Join us for this important dialogue to create agreements on practices. Your voice is needed.

Organizing Committee: Meredith Miller (Icarus Films);
Carleton Jackson (University of Maryland), Dylan McGinty (National Film Board of Canada), Jane Hutchison (William Paterson University), Sarah McCleskey (Hofstra University), and deg farrelly (Arizona State University)

Jane B. Hutchison
Associate Director
Instruction & Research Technology
President CCUMC: Leadership in Media & Academic Technology
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ 07470
973-720-2980 (work)

http://www.ccumc.org

973-418-7727 (cell)
973-720-2585 (facs)
hutchisonj@wpunj.edu

This lecture is sponsored by the Rutgers University Libraries. To RSVP, please send an email to events@rci.rutgers.edu or call 732 932-7505.

Thank you,
Marianne

–
Marianne I. Gaunt
Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey Alexander Library
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1163

Date: May 25, 2010

Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

Place: Busch Campus Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey

The VALE Assessment Committee and the VALE Shared Information Committee invite you to participate in a half-day Assessment Fair designed to inform VALE librarians about a variety of assessment techniques and products as well as to showcase individual library’s assessment successes. Plan to attend and learn, and consider sharing your work by hosting a table or poster session.

Details about how to participate and what we plan to cover will follow shortly.

–

Jeanne E. Boyle
Associate University Librarian for Planning and Organizational Research
Rutgers University Libraries
732/932-7505 jeboyle@rci.rutgers.edu

Before too much time passes, please take a few moments to complete the conference evaluation form at http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB22A3VMK6ZE4 (if you cannot click on the link, please copy and paste it into your browser). This link to the evaluation will be available through Friday, 22 January, but why not answer the questions now?