College and University Section - Technology Committee

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College and University Section - Technology Committee

The Technology Committee sponsors programs and other activities for meeting the technological challenges facing libraries and librarians. Each year at the NJLA Spring Conference, the Committee presents the NJLA Technology Innovation Award, which honors a librarian or group of librarians for innovative use and application of technology in a New Jersey academic library.

Events:

NJLA 2009 Conference Sessions:

Technology Innovation Forum on Tuesday, April 28th, 3:30-5:30PM
Presentation from the nominees and winner(s) of the 2009 NJLA College and University Section Technology Innovation Award, which honors a librarian or group of librarians for innovative use and application of technology in a New Jersey academic library. The purpose of the award is to recognize distinguished leadership in developing new technologies for academic libraries.

The NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ Technology Innovation Award winners for 2009 are:
Kurt Wagner - Coordination & Project Management, James DeRose – System Administration, Tony Joachim - Application Development , Mark Sandford - Application Development, and Raymond Schwartz - Application Development, at William Paterson University for the "Cheng Library Information-on-Demand Project,” which consists of the implementation of a library application server for the purpose of extracting information from the library’s Voyager database and other data sources with new information available to users in a variety of ways, by repackaging the data via custom developed web applications.

The Cheng Library Team will be joined by the 2009 Technology Innovation Award nominees, who will also demonstrate their individual projects:
Haymwantee P. Singh, Technical Reference Librarian, New Jersey Institute of Technology, presenting the "Web based self-service natural language KnowledgeBase Reference Service;"
Jackie Mardikian, Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Librarian, Library of Science and Medicine, Rutgers University Libraries ; John Maxymuk, Nursing and Science Librarian, Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers

University Libraries ; Ann Watkins, Life and Health Sciences Librarian, Dana Library, Rutgers University; and the Members of the Rutgers University Libraries Instructional Services Committee presenting the "Rutgers University Nursing Information Literacy Tutorial;" and
Brian Hancock, Systems Librarian, Montclair State University Library presenting "The Humanities Data Grid at Montclair State University."

Moderator: Mary Mallery, Chair, NJLA CUS Technology Committee.

Are We Half-Way on the Long Road towards Subject Guide 2.0? by Sharon Yang,Rider U. Libraries, on Wed., April 29th, 3:30PM. (Moderator: Denise O'Shea)

Open Source Library Systems Developments Panel Session with JudyGardner and John Brennan, Project OLE Team at Rutgers, Mike Giarlo, Project ConiferConsultant, and John Stromquist, WALDO Koha Project., on Wed., April 29th, 11:30AM (Moderator: Mary Mallery); and

NJVid Video Portal presented by Grace Agnew, Rutgers U. Libraries, and Sandra Miller, William Paterson U on Wed., April 29th, 2:30PM.. (Moderator: Mary Mallery)

Next Meeting: May 15, 2009 in the Scholarly Communciations Center, Rutgers University Alexander Library from 10AM to noon.

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