{"id":1231,"date":"2009-03-11T08:52:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T15:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2013-07-31T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T15:24:06","slug":"librarians-garner-state-recognition-for-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Librarians Garner State Recognition for Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1232 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/library.jpg\" alt=\"library exterior\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>TCNJ librarians swept up all of the honors granted this year by the Research Committee of the joint Association for College and Research Librarians (ACRL) and the New Jersey Library Association\u2019s (NJLA) College &amp; University Research Section.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the committee recognizes excellence in the research efforts of New Jersey Librarians through two calls: the Research Award, honoring the best published research paper from the previous year, and the Research Forum, which promotes research efforts by providing a forum at the NJLA Annual for presentation of research work underway.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Research Award, sponsored by Seton Hall University, went to co-authors <strong>Jia Mi<\/strong>, electronic resources\/serials librarian, and <strong>Cathy Weng<\/strong>, head of cataloging. Their winning article is \u201cRevitalizing the Library OPAC: Interface, Searching, and Display Challenges,\u201d published in Information Technology and Libraries, v. 27, no. 1 (March 2008). The Research Award winners will present during the Research Forum on April 29 at the NJLA Annual Conference in Long Branch.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Research Forum winners will also present the highlights of their in-progress research at the NJLA Annual Conference. The three winners this year are: 1) co-presenters <strong>Jia Mi<\/strong>, electronic resources\/serials librarian, and <strong>Yongming Wang<\/strong>, systems librarian, for their project: \u201cSearch Capabilities and Federated Searches,\u201d that provides a review of federated search engines; 2) <strong>Yuji Tosaka<\/strong>, cataloging\/metadata librarian for his project: \u201cWeb-based citation management software and the impact of metadata quality on user-driven metadata reuse,\u201d which reviews the accuracy of Web-based citation management tools; and 3) <strong>Terrence Epperson<\/strong> and Alan Zemel (Drexel) for their project: \u201cReports, requests, and recipient design: The management of patron queries in online reference chats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TCNJ librarians swept up all of the honors granted this year by the Research Committee of the joint Association for College and Research Librarians (ACRL) and the New Jersey Library Association\u2019s (NJLA) College &#038; University Research Section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","category-march-2009","category-on-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}