CJARL Meeting Notes – 5/29/2009

Location: CJRLC Offices in Freehold, NJ.

In attendance:
1. Amy Kearns Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative
2. David Peterson Burlington County College
3. Gary Schmidt Ocean County College
4. Caitlyn Cook Ocean County College
5. Steve Chudnick Brookdale Community College
6. Amy Clark Brookdale Community College

Our second meeting of the 2009 Spring Semester began a few minutes after 10:00am with our usual announcements of upcoming events and programs. Amy Kearns informed the group about a very interesting program called, “Pres4Lib: A Camp for Library Speakers and Trainers.” More information is available at their wiki page: http://pres4lib.pbworks.com/.

Amy Clark asked the group if anyone is using “Library a la Carte” (see: http://alacarte.library.oregonstate.edu/home) to create their pathfinders/subject guides. It’s an open source software out of Oregon State. Gary mentioned that OCC has been using Delicious for web guides as a template for our print guides. Brookdale has also been considering LibGuides (see: http://demo.libguides.com/).

The group’s conversation also benefited from a wonderful presentation at the CJRLC Membership Meeting at Monroe Township Library the day before. The presentation was a discussion about the future of LIS education by Claire McInerney, PhD (Rutgers, SCILS - see: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~clairemc/) and Joseph Lucia, University Librarian at the Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova (http://www.library.villanova.edu/About/Director). The presentation was wonderful. If you ever have the chance to hear Mr. Lucia speak, do not miss it.

We also turned our attention to the Information Literacy Progression Standards Task Force Draft Document that was presented at the NJLA Conference in April, 2009. I wanted to use part of our meeting time to more deeply examine some of the questions that the Task Force addressed with the attendees at NJLA. The feedback was great and I will share it with Jacqui DaCosta and Eleonora Dubicki.

Respectfully submitted on Tuesday, June 2, 2009,

Gary Schmidt
Chair, CJARL
Ocean County College
Toms River, NJ

NEXT MEETING: October 23, 2009 10:00am-12:00pm at Ocean County College (Room L101D). Directions available at www.ocean.edu. Agenda to follow at a later date.

CJARL Meeting this Friday (May 29)

The Spring meeting of the Central Jersey Academic Reference Librarians (CJARL) group will take place this Friday (May 29) from 10:00am-12:00pm at the CJRLC offices in Freehold, NJ.

Directions to CJRLC can be found here.

We've got a great agenda planned, including a discussion on the Information Literacy Progression Standards Task Force draft document that was presented at the annual NJLA conference last month.

Hope to see you there.

Spring 2009 Meeting

Our Spring 2009 meeting will take place on Friday, May 29, 2009 from 10:00am - 12:00pm at the CJRLC offices in Freehold, NJ.

Directions to CJRLC offices in Freehold can be found here: http://catsatwork.net/joomla/directions#CJRLC

Feel free to e-mail agenda items to me at gschmidt [at] ocean [dot] edu.

-Gary Schmidt
Chair, CJARL

NJLA Conference Program - Information Literacy Progression Standards

Are you interested in information literacy?

Are you planning to attend the NJLA Conference on Wednesday April 29?

If so, please arrive early so that you can come to the 9:00 a.m. Discussion Forum in Atlantic IV.

Over recent months, a Task Force of NJ librarians has been working on a set of progression standards for students in two and four year colleges. We would very much like to receive your feedback on the document, which can be found (until May 1) at: http://senduit.com/f16062

If you cannot attend the session, but would still like to contribute feedback, please email me with your comments by May 8.

Hope to see you at the NJLA Conference.

Jacqui DaCosta
Eleonora Dubicki
Gary Schmidt

Crowd Forms Against an Algorithm

This weekend, the New York Times published a small article by Motoko Rich on another of amazon.com's algorithmic blunders.

I've always been interested in how our indexing and cataloging practices censor information--unintentional or not. What's really interesting in this example, however, is the extent to which the twittersphere allowed for the digital panic police to let this story burn like wild fire across the wooded plains of the interwebs.

Check it out: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/weekinreview/19rich.html

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Agenda for our Meeting on Friday, February 13th (10am-12pm)

Location: Ocean County College Library, Toms River, NJ (Room L101D)
Date & Time: Friday, February 13, 2009 (10am-12pm)

• Welcome & Introductions.
• Events & Programs Announcements.
• Update on Progression Standards joint project with VALE_SIL and NJACRL_UE.
• What I learned at VALE: VALE Users' Conference Reactions.
• Shrinking economy and growing enrollment.
• Reader's Advisory: Read any good books lately?
• 2009/10 CJARL Chairperson.
• Electronic Reserves.
• Database news.
• Update on new projects and innovative thinking at your library.
• April/May meeting.
  

Directions to the Ocean County College camous in Toms River, NJ can be found here.

Light refreshments will be served.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Academic Library Research: Perspectives and Current Trends

Marie Radford, PhD (Rutgers University) has a new book out called, Academic Library Research: Perspectives and Current Trends (2008). Co-edited with Pamela Snelson (Franklin & Marshall). In the interest of full disclosure, I am a former student of Dr. Radford's. For those of us who know her, this book is sure to be a very worthwhile read. I'm looking forward to getting my copy. For more information, go to: http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2515