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LIBRARIES ANNUAL REPORT FY2012-2013
DEAR COLLEAGUES, STUDENTS AND FRIENDS
OF THE NJIT LIBRARIES
It has been my pleasure to again serve you as the NJIT University Librarian in FY2013, my 18th year at NJIT. I started at NJIT in 1995, the same year that most of our typical incoming freshmen
students this year were born and the same year as the commercialization of the internet!
For the first time in several years, the provost increased the library materials budget enough in FY2013 to cover journal subscription price increases. Therefore the library avoided budget related journal cancellations of previous year journal titles. In addition, the library was able to purchase new journal titles that were suggested by the 24 new faculty hired for September, 2012.
Our e‐book (EBL) title loans increased over 20% from FY2012 to FY2013. An e‐book “loan” occurs when a student or faculty member locates a title in the library online catalog and reads one of our e‐books, which we do not own, for more than 5 minutes. In fact the service proved so popular in FY2013 that we had to reduce the number of e‐book titles accessible in our pool so that we could remain within our budget. Students and other users like electronic books because they find that they can get access to many more current book titles than was possible with traditional books and they are accessible 24x7x365 from almost anywhere. For FY2014, we have made the decision to increase the budget for electronic books by $10,000 by reducing that amount for more traditional hard copy books in order to meet the increasing demand. The loans/usage of our traditional hard copy books by students, staff and faculty
continues overall to decline as e‐books continues to rise.
The iPad lending program continued to grow as our new faculty and students learned about it.
In May, an inventory of our libraries’ print copy book collections was conducted, led by Ann Hoang, Assistant University Librarian. This inventory is the first since FY2002. It was needed to make our catalog more accurate for our students and faculty but also it is a necessary step in building a new relationship and implementing the VALID system among NJ academic libraries.
We are very happy to welcome two new Technical Reference Librarians, Joseph Mercuri and Charlie Terng, who replaced Heather Dalal and Kate Wiggins respectively. They joined Davida Scharf and Bruce Slutsky forming our small, but excellent four person reference department. We fully expect that our reference staff will continue to make progress supporting information literacy and becoming proactive liaisons to their respective academic departments.
As always, I welcome your comments at [email protected].
Richard Sweeney, NJIT University Librarian
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The NJIT libraries are engaged in efforts to improve access to its collections, a key aspect of which was the need to perform a physical inventory of the circulation collections at the Van Houten and the Littman Architecture and Design Libraries in order for the students, faculty and staff to access these collections in a timely manner.
The goal of the inventory was to obtain accurate holdings information of the collections. The tasks of the inventory were: to verify the libraries’ physical holdings against the online catalog database, to remove from the online catalog database items that have been lost or missing for a lengthy period of time, and to have an accurate and clean database.
In addition, the inventory will help NJIT Libraries to participate in other critical projects: to implement the EBSCO Discovery Service’s Custom Catalog project, to complete a reclamation project with OCLC for holdings information, and to participate in the VALE VALID Project.
We discovered that many books were shelved incorrectly instead of missing. There were 2,074 missing items out of 122,935 items inventoried from the Van Houten Library while there were 482 missing items out of 21,806 items inventoried at the Littman Architecture and Design Library. This represents about 4% of the total print collections that went missing within the last 12 years.
eBooks from EBL FY2011 FY2012 FY2013
Owned 550 576 650
Browsed online 3,345 2,781 5,048
Downloads 363 1,769 3,354
Read online 273 1,463 2,855
Total titles loaned (STL) N/A 1,419 1,590
Unique titles accessed N/A 926 1,286
Total budget spent $11,376 $16,921 $23,980
$131,300 $144,594
% of titles accessed in Sciences 54% 58%
% of titles accessed in Humanities 36% 25%
% of titles accessed in Architecture & Arts
10% 17%
Estimated value of STL titles (average cost of $87 per title)
Total titles direct purchased
N/A ‐ 21
Total titles auto‐purchased
N/A ‐ 51
INVENTORY OF PRINT COLLECTIONS The electronic books expenditures chart below compares the number of STL loaned and purchased books from FY2010 to FY2013. The average cost per STL was $13.66 while the average cost to purchase an electronic book was $87. The average cost to purchase a print book was $95.
Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) is a process whereby electronic books are made available through the online library catalog to library patrons, but are not purchased until there is sufficient demand via short term loan (STL) and usage of a given title reaches an established threshold.
E-BOOK PURCHASE & PDA LENDING
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Since its inception August 2010, there were a total of 87,929 accesses to 113 guides. ResearchGuides are course‐specific and subject‐specific webpages created by the librarians to support NJIT’s information literacy program and course curriculum. In FY2013, there were
The book expenditures chart compares the total
number of books purchased from FY2002 to FY2012.
While the overall book budget has remained
relatively stable the last several years, book prices
continue to increase. The average cost per book was
$95 in FY2013 compared to $90 in FY2012 and $72 in
FY2011. The staff continues to find creative ways to
support the research and teaching needs of our
faculty and students such as implementation of
patron demand acquisition of electronic books.
BOOK PURCHASES
RESEARCHGUIDES @ NJIT
Top 5 ResearchGuides Usage FY2013
1. Research Roadmaps 7,364
2. Understanding Citations 4,935
3. Find a Book in the NJIT Library 3,657
4. How to Evaluate Information Sources 2,997
5. Using Academic Search Premier 2,423
Since its inception in October 2011, NJIT students continued to find the iPad lending program useful and satisfactory. The students can borrow an iPad for 3‐hour in‐library use. The iPads were borrowed a total of 645 times during FY2013 compared to 170 in FY2012 with the most being borrowed (149 times) in October.
a total of 42,648 accesses with the busiest month in September (8,008 times) compared to 35,454 accesses in FY2012 and 9,827 in FY2011.
View http://researchguides.njit.edu for additional information.
iPAD LENDING PROGRAM
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The NJIT library continues to participate in VALE’s investigation of the feasibility of implementing a statewide academic open source library system. The new system will benefit the New Jersey academic library community by creating a shared statewide bibliographic database that will enable academic library users to find material and determine availability. The system will include a statewide academic borrowing card.
The tasks accomplished by the standing committees working on this project are: The VALID Steering Committee (VOSC) developed a comprehensive VALID value proposition statement to summarize the purpose and expectations of the VALID project and drafted an RFP for consulting services for a VALID business plan.
The VALID Implementation Committee (VOIT) selected Amazon Web Services as the hosting platform and selected VuFind as the user interface platform for the VALID project, and presented the AWS/VuFind demo at the VALE Users Conference. The VOIT team also received the NJLA College and University Section 2013 Technology Innovation Award for the VuFind implementation. For further information about the VALID project, view http://www.validnj.org
VALID LIBRARY SYSTEM: FY2013 UPDATE
ELECTRONIC THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
(ETD)
There are 1,865 theses and dissertations available in electronic format as ETD's (Electronic Theses & Dissertations). From July 2012 to June 2013, 99 ETDs went live on the NJIT website. Researchers, students, and business people from around the world continue to find hits to our ETDs through Google and Yahoo searches and then get immediate access to full‐text content through our NJIT ETD portal.
View NJIT’s ETD’s at http://library.njit.edu/etd. The breakdown of ETDs online in the last several fiscal years is below:
Reason FY2011 FY2012
Current T&D 104 195
ILL Request 3 5
Retrospective 4 0
Web Request 5 6
Requestor Type FY2011 FY2012
NJIT Student 3 0
NJIT Alumni 0 2
NJIT Faculty 0 1
Non‐NJIT Faculty 0 1
Non‐NJIT Staff 3 6
Other 2 1
FY2013
62
6
2
29
FY2013
3
10
0
0
6
16
Total 116 206 99
Total 8 11 35
ARCHIVES / YEARBOOKS
This year the library digitized the 1987 yearbook and
added it to the digital archive at http://
library1.njit.edu/archives/yearbooks/
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The Van Houten Library saw some staff changes in the Reference Department this year. Heather Dalal moved on to the Rider University Library in August and Joseph Mercuri joined in November 2012. Katherine Wiggins left in December and Charles Terng came on board in May 2013. Bruce Slutsky and Davida Scharf served all users ably in the interim and were grateful for the assistance of temporary librarian, Lisa DeLuca who took the lion’s share of the Research Roadmaps instructional sessions and grading in the spring semester.
Under Bruce Slutsky’s leadership, the Reference Department sponsored two opportunities for students to learn more about library databases. On IEEE day there was a booth in the lobby to demonstrate IEEE Xplore to students. The ACS on Campus Day attracted over 60 students and faculty from NJIT and Rutgers. It included talks on Scholarly Publishing, searching Scifinder Scholar, and job hunting techniques. The ACS has been very selective in universities chosen to host this prestigious event. They have been previously held at Vanderbilt, Emory, NYU, USC, Purdue, Northwestern, and Cornell.
Several new projects were of interest this year. Reference librarians investigated new sources and recommended them for addition to the collection. They also tested and recommended EBSCO’s discovery search tool for implementation in
REFERENCE SERVICES
the Fall 2013. In support of the Provost’s Program Assessment Initiative, the Reference librarians developed a citation report of student outcomes analysis. A study was done to see if recipients of doctoral degrees were published in technical journals after their graduation from NJIT. This helped the faculty and committee better understand the performance outcomes of graduate programs and will be an ongoing activity.
INFORMATION LITERACY
The Reference Librarians continue to make instruction a priority. The two new staff members are becoming part of the information literacy team. Davida Scharf continued to participate as a member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee where she is able to monitor new programs and changes as they may impact information literacy instruction. She has also been appointed to the Program Assessment Committee where information literacy outcomes are assessed for each program under review.
Research Roadmaps Assessment The Research Roadmaps Program has been in existence since 2009 as a series of instructional
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modules and assignments embedded in two semesters of freshman composition and worth 10% of the course grade. Activities are conducted via Moodle with one hands‐on workshop conducted by a librarian. Librarians grade and give feedback on one research assignment.
A survey was designed and executed to better understand the impact of the Research Roadmaps on student learning. The response rate was excellent. Of over 800 students enrolled in freshman composition, between 437 and 808 responded to various questions. The data showed that although 70% of the students felt they knew some or a lot about web and library research, 70% also felt they learned something of value, and that the program should continue to be required as part of HUM101 and HUM102. The data also showed that all the components of the Roadmaps program were found useful to a segment of the freshman population, confirming our anecdotal understanding. There were several open‐ended questions that elicited many thoughtful responses. For example, many students, when asked what they would do differently following the Roadmaps, answered that they would 'start earlier on their research' and use the library in addition to Google. Many students mentioned skills librarians aimed to teach, such as knowledge of the library databases, alternative search engines, better keyword searching, use of scholarly articles, etc. as important additions to their research skills. Based on the success of this survey, the reference librarians hope to conduct similar surveys across the curriculum in the future.
The library self‐help answer service is a natural language, web‐based self‐ service software system that automatically answers questions submitted
LIBRARY SELF HELP ANSWER SERVICE
BY INTELLIRESPONSE
FY2011 FY2012 FY2013
Total Questions
Asked 11,272 10,702 9,155
Response Rate 86.25% 74.60% 88.96%
Average Question
per Day 31 29 25
Most Common
Question Asked
What
databases
does the
library
subscribe to?
How do I
find articles
on my
topic?
How do I
cite my
sources?
concerning library services. This service is accessible from the library homepage. See: “Ask the Library” at http://library.njit.edu.
CIRCULATION SERVICES
This has been an eventful year for Circulation Services, including closings due to Hurricane Sandy and the Inventory project. The library continues to be a popular place for study groups and individual study. Though print circulation has declined, user visits to the library increased mostly due to extended hours.
The provost responded to student requests for additional library hours by extending weekend hours at the Van Houten Library. The Van Houten Library added three extra hours of service on Saturdays,
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The library continues to examine and review ways to improve the facility and services. Improvements include re‐carpeting of the first and third floors of the Van Houten Library. The new carpets have greatly improved the appearance of the refurbished spaces, creating a warmer and more appealing environment. Still pending is re‐carpeting of the lower level and second floors.
In concert with the Inventory, the Reference collection on the first floor was weeded and then shifted to the 2nd floor atrium. This shift has created more space on the main level that will soon be converted to a more useable space for students. The Van Houten Library closed from
May 21 to May 24, 2013 for Inventory. Inventory has enabled us to have an accurate listing of actual print books available, in addition to a thorough shelf reading that will provide students better access to the circulating collection.
RAPIDILL: 24 HOUR ARTICLE DELIVERY /
TRADITIONAL INTERLIBRARY LOAN
The Library’s successful Rapid Interlibrary Loan (RapidILL) article delivery service continues to provide fast delivery of requested journal articles to the desktop of our students and faculty. For FY2013 the library obtained a total of 1,835 articles and books as requested by library patrons. A total of 1,261 articles were delivered via the RapidILL system, 267 more articles than last year. RapidILL article delivery time averaged less than 20 hours.
The RapidILL system added a new group of New Jersey libraries, the VALE pod, to support greater sharing of library resources among New Jersey academic libraries. The VALE pod participants are: NJIT, Rowan University, Rutgers University, Seton Hall University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Stockton College and William Paterson.
For the next fiscal year we will be investigating dropping the problematic Ariel Interlibrary Loan Software and moving to a more efficient and reliable program. This may offer the possibility of direct delivery of articles and books to students and faculty.
Fiscal Year Comparison FY2011 FY2012
RapidILL articles borrowed
per requests from NJIT
students, faculty, & staff
880 994
Traditional Interlibrary loan
articles borrowed for NJIT
students, faculty, & staff
252 151
Books borrowed for NJIT
students, faculty, & staff 457 414
Total Interlibrary loan items
requested and supplied to
NJIT students, faculty, & staff
1,589 1,559
FY2013
1,261
172
402
1,835
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some archival materials were gifted to the library by Professor Robert Geddes, a distinguished scholar, educa to r , a rch i tec t , specialist in urbanism, and former Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton. Other donations included materials presented by the family of late Rutgers professor Robert Gutman, the Newark Museum Library, and CoAD faculty and students. In total, 994 books in our collection were received as gifts in the past year. The majority of publications in the fields of art and architecture are still being published in print. However compared to previous years, our number of e‐books titles in the fields of art, architecture and design has increased. Books required for reserve were purchased in advance, while others were rented with the option of purchasing if accessed more than five times. We are also planning to incorporate into the online catalog bibliographic records of books related to areas of interest in the CoAD and freely available on the web.
INFORMATION LITERACY
In FY2013 we continued to work on the implementation of an Information Literacy program. We collaborated with the CoAD administration to embed information literacy into curricula to ensure that our students have the information literacy skills required for their classes and future professional activities. Our classes both general and course‐specific were guided by the Standards for Information Competencies approved by NJIT and those specific for Students in Architecture and Design Disciplines (ARLIS and AASL). To make instructional materials available even when the library is closed and to accommodate the needs of those patrons who prefer to learn on their
THE LITTMAN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN LIBRARY
Littman Architecture and Design Library statistics demonstrate that the number of visits to the Littman Architecture & Design Library is consistently high and that College of Architecture and Design (CoAD) students are among the most active university readers. However, the library is no longer just a repository of
materials or a place to consu l t l i b rar i ans , although these functions are still important. The library is where students can access resources, get inspiration, exchange information, talk to peers, watch a video or simply relax.
BEYOND GRADUATION
We strive to create a vibrant community and extend our services to students beyond their graduation. Our decisions on how to organize space, create instructional materials, or plan services are informed by surveys, questionnaires, and daily statistics. We have found students’ feedback to be extremely useful and have already made changes based on their suggestions and requests. The Library’s achievements over the past year would be unimaginable without the support of s t u d e n t s , f a c u l t y , administration, and friends of the library. Both monetary and book donations help to fill gaps in our collections and improve delivery of our services.
BOOK DONATIONS In the 2012‐2013 academic year, over 700 books and
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own, we continue to create online research guides and video tutorials, which enable students to review what they have learned in class and to further explore research tools at their own pace. Over the last year the usage of these guides and tutorials has more than doubled. The most popular guides are Software in Architecture, Art and Design, followed by Introduction to the Littman Library; Summer Program in Italy; and Representational Techniques (each accessed between 550 and 1,600 times). We also added a few video tutorials, that according to our statistics in 2012‐2013 were visited 1,555 times,. We can assume, therefore, that students need guidance in searching databases and find video tutorials helpful.
IMAGE DATABASE
We have continued to develop the Image Database and the Digital Archive of Newark Architecture. They have been growing and consistently visited not only by CoAD faculty and students but also by architects and researchers interested in the history of Newark’s built
environment.
This year we embarked on establishing the Material Library required for the accreditation of all CoAD programs. It will be critical to assign a dedicated staff member to the Materials Library to further its implementation.
TEA TIME AT THE LIBRARY
In addition to traditional posters, newsletters, and new book exhibits we introduced Tea in the Library as a draw for patrons. This allows us not only to inform our patrons of new materials in the library but also to learn more about their needs.
The large screen mounted in the library has been actively used by f a c u l t y and students for classes, group d i s c u s s i o n s , m e e t i n g s , presentations, and video screenings. It was also used for two digital exhibits featuring: Siena Summer program and the CoAD 40th anniversary. In the future we are planning to use it for Books of the month digital exhibits of new acquisitions.
FY2014 AND BEYOND
Our goals for next year remain the same: to maintain the level of quality and the number of personalized yet efficient services; to continue building collections in a variety of formats to support all the CoAD programs; and to create a welcoming environment conducive to study and fostering collaboration.
THE LITTMAN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN LIBRARY
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Circulation FY2008 FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013
Van Houten Library: Hours open in a typical
week 107.50 107.50 94.50 94.50 94.50 100.5*
Van Houten Library: User visits to the Library 405,231 402,375 384,985 380,479 379,564 390,084
Littman Architecture & Design Library: Hours
open in a typical week 72.00 72.00 72.00 72.00 72.00 72.00
Littman Architecture & Design Library: User
Visits to the Library 75,147 80,082 90,265 102,032 107,662 90,309
Circulation: Van Houten & Littman
Architecture & Design Libraries 37,777 33,440 41,665 33,752 27,963 20,347
Materials borrowed from other libraries 1,688 1,832 2,096 1,589 1,559 1,835
Materials on loan to other libraries 918 1,463 2,459 2,562 2,593 2,196
Print volumes held 220,618 223,998 227,813 170,186 171,792 155,857**
*Extended hours during spring semester, ** Inventory
LIBRARY STATISTICS — CIRCULATION
LIBRARY STATISTICS — JOURNALS
Journals FY2008 FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013
Journal titles purchased in online databases 31,656 33,273 32,107 34,355 35,822 37,989
Journal titles accessible (not purchased) 20,170 19,443 25,259 33,547 33,565 32,143
Total individual journal subscriptions 507 402 375 356 259 197
Individual print only journals 161 126 76 76 76 77
Individual e‐journals only 240 184 259 245 169 108
Both print & e‐journals 68 55 40 35 14 12
Online bibliographic indexes ‐ 4 4 4 5 5
Online full text databases 21 19 19 19 19 26
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STAFF PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ACTIVITIES
Richard T. Sweeney,
University Librarian
Rich was invited to
participate on a panel at the
annual VALE User Group
meeting, composed of
academic librarians from all
over New Jersey about managing e‐book\PDA
(Patron Driven Acquisitions) budgets. He conducted
three focus groups for NJIT in FY 2013. Rich
conducted a focus group of undergraduate students
to determine if BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) was a
viable alternative to building and/or expanding
computer labs on campus. He also conducted a
faculty focus group for the Teaching, Learning and
Technology Committee to determine faculty
preferences and ideas in classroom design. In
addition he conducted a focus group with
Community Connections student mentors to
determine the satisfaction and effectiveness of the
newly renovated and refurbished Community
Connections Study Lounge (CAB1006). He continued
to serve on the VALE Executive Committee and on
the VALE Website Committee. Rich attended the
annual American Library Association Conference in
Chicago.
Ann Hoang, Assistant
University Librarian
Ann is member of the following committees: LibraryLinkNJ Statewide Strategic Planning Committee; LibraryLinkNJ Website Task Force; the
VALE VALID / OLS Steering Committee; the VALE VALID / OLS Implementation Taskforce; the VALE and NJLA CUS/ACRL‐NJ User Conference Planning Committee, and the VALE Website Committee. Ann continues as the lead administrator for the VALE Drupal website.
Ann attended the ELUNA Conference in May 2013. Ann’s presentations included “Collection Maintenance Spring Cleaning: Best Practices”, at the VALE Workshop; the VALID Discovery Layer Project at the VALE NJ User Conference; and presented at the NJLA CUS/ ACRL Technology Innovation Awards, where the VALE VOIT team won the Technology Innovation Award 2013 for the VALID Discovery Layer Project. Ann is working toward her MBA (Master in Business Administration) degree from Rutgers University.
Davida Scharf, Director of Reference
Davida received her PhD from the Graduate School of Communication and Information at Rutgers Univers i ty. Her dissertation research provided strong evidence
that the curriculum developed for ENG352 using a Wikipedia proposal as the centerpiece had a significant positive impact on the students’ information literacy skills. This work has informed significant curricular changes to her information literacy work, and most especially the Research Roadmaps program. A major revision of the curriculum for the Roadmaps was accomplished quickly in the last two weeks in August 2012 and the results will be assessed over the summer 2013. Davida spoke on Information Literacy Assessment at the VALE Assessment Fair in May, and on using Wikipedia as a teaching tool at the METRO
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Bibliographic Instruction SIG in June 2012. She authored a chapter for a forthcoming book on Information literacy to be published this summer entitled “College Students as Wikipedia Editors: New Pathways to Information Literacy” in M. Deyrup & B. Bloom (Eds.), Successful Strategies for Teaching Undergraduate Student Research: Scarecrow Press.
Doreen Mettle, Director of Circulation & Interlibrary Loan
Doreen is a member of the Vale Resource Sharing Committee. This committee identifies, recommends, and implements policies that
enhance resource sharing/ reciprocal borrowing among academic libraries in New Jersey using VALE and NJ statewide infrastructures. Doreen also attended the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago, July 2013.
Maya Gervits, Director, Architecture & Design Library
In July 2012 Maya attended “The Digital World of Art H i s t o r y D a t a b a s e s , Initiatives, Policies and Practices “ conference, sponsored by the Index of
Christian Art at Princeton University. In January 2013, Maya participated in the VALE annual conference
In March 2013 Maya attended the annual conference of the Association of Architectural School Librarians (AASL, San Francisco), and The Digital World of Art History: From Theory to Practice (Index of Christian Art , Princeton, June 2013) . Maya joined the VALE research Committee, served on the University Faculty‐Library committee and conducted CoAD Faculty‐Library committee meetings. Maya also served on the Association of Architectural School Librarians
(AASL) Career Guidance Task Force and was elected to chair the Professional Development Committee AASL. She maintained membership in the Association of Architectural School Librarians , Art Library Society of North America (ARLIS), Association of Historians of Nineteenth Century Art (AHNCA), and Society of Architectural Historians.
Bruce Slutsky, Technical Reference Librarian
Bruce served on the Reference Services Committee. Chaired a subcommittee to recommend features for the next generation catalog, the VALE Open Library System Project
known as VALID. Bruce also served on the panel: “VALE Open Source ILS Project Collaboration: Benefits and Challenges” at the VALE annual meeting, January 2012. Bruce is a member of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Information Division, New York Local Section. Bruce is a Career Consultant, advising chemists in making a career transition to chemical information or science librarianship. For the 12th year Bruce was a convener of the METRO Science and Medical Librarians Special Interest Group. Bruce also attended several webinars and seminars offered by METRO including: “Digital Preservation”, “Project Management”, and “Letting go of legacy services”.
Susan O’Connor, Architecture Library Specialist
Susan is a member of the User Education / VALE Shared Information Literacy Committee and the NJLA Publications Committee.
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Haymwantee Singh, E‐Resources & Serials Librarian Haymwantee is a member of the VALE Cooperative Collection Management (CCM) Committee and VALE
Electronic Resources (ERM) Committee for FY2012‐2013. She coordinated the session titled “Analyzing E‐books”, sponsored by the VALE CCM Committee at the VALE Annual meeting, Jan 4, 2013. Haymwantee attended the Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference – Austin Texas, March 17‐20, 2013. Haymwantee worked with VALE CCM group to plan and coordinate a workshop titled "Collection Maintenance Spring Cleaning: Best Practices"‐ held at Rutgers Alexander Library on May 9, 2013. She is a member of the ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education).
Joseph Mercuri, Technical Reference Librarian
Joe joined NJIT in November 2012. Prior to that, he worked as a librarian for Schering‐Plough/Merck for over 25 years. Joe is liaison for the B i o l o g y , B i om e d i c a l
Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, and Online Learning areas. Joe assisted in the grading of Research Roadmap papers in the Spring 2013 semester and put together a training session for the use of EndNote software in May 2013. He is a member of VALE’s Shared Information Literacy Committee.
Matthew Brown, Digital Projects Librarian
Matt continued to serve as a member of the NJLA CUS/ACRL‐NJ Technology Committee.
Charles Terng, Technical Reference Librarian
Charles was appointed to the position of Technical Reference Librarian in May 2013. Charles received his bachelor degree in psychology and a Masters of Library and
Information Science from Rutgers University and did graduate work in Integrative Neuroscience at UMDNJ. Charles has most recently worked as a librarian at the Health Science Library at Hackensack University Medical Center, Montclair, NJ and in the Novartis Knowledge Center in East Hanover, N.J. He is the librarian liaison to three academic departments, Engineering Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Charles supervised projects for the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library and taught information literacy courses for first‐year undergraduates as a Graduate Assistant Instructor while he was at Rutgers. Charlie is a member of HSLANJ ‐ Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey.
Lisa Weissbard, Cataloging Librarian
Lisa is a member of ALA and NJLA. She is on the VALE Bibliographic Control and Metadata Committee and on its VALID
subcommittee. In May 2013 she attended the ELUNA conference in Athens, Georgia.
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