Technology Innovation Award 2009: Call for Nominations

The NJLA College and University Section Technology Innovation Award honors a librarian or group of librarians for innovative use and application of technology in a New Jersey academic library. The award may be given either in recognition of a specific project, or for ongoing delivery of innovative technology applications. The purpose of the award is to recognize distinguished leadership in developing new technologies for academic libraries. Please follow these guidelines in completing your nomination:

1. Please write a letter of nomination, including in no more than two paragraphs why the candidate in being nominated for the award.
2. If this nomination is for a special project, please supply a description of the project (objectives, activities, and impacts), in no more than two pages. Supporting documents related to the project, including URLs, can be attached.
3. The remaining substance of the nomination letter should address in what specific ways the nominee has achieved the following:
   1. Benefits of innovation/use of technology to library users;
   2. Benefits of innovation/use of technology to information community;
   3. Impact of innovation/use of technology on library operations; and
   4. Impact of innovation/use of technology on perception of the library/librarians in the academic setting.
4. Be sure to include in your nomination the complete contact information for your nominee: name, title, institution, address, telephone and e-mail.

Nominees will be asked to demonstrate their project and answer questions on March 20th at the Scholarly Communications Center of Rutgers University Libraries in New Brunswick from 9AM to 2PM.

Please Note: Winner(s) of the NJLA CUS Technology Innovation Award will give a presentation on their project at the 2009 NJLA Annual Conference on April 28th at the Ocean Place Conference Center in Long Branch, NJ.

Nomination Deadline: February 1, 2009.

Please send nominations to:

Mary Mallery
Chair, Technology Committee
NJLA College and University Section
E-mail: mallerym@mail.montclair.edu

Last year’s winner of Technology Innovation Award was the team of Choong Hoong Liew, Web Designer; and Mei Ling Lo, Math/Computer Science Librarian, at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey for their “Rutgers Library Toolbar” project that extended and customized the LibX toolbar application, a free, open source extension for the Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. To see their Powerpoint presentation and other award nominees from 2008, visit the Web page at:
http://www.njla.org/njacrl/2008TechInnovForum.html