A network of free and easily accessible book exchanges, the Little Free Library initiative (littlefreelibrary.org), was established in 2009 in Wisconsin, with the mission of promoting literacy and the love of reading, and building a sense of community. The Center of Alcohol Studies Library joined this movement with its own design. The poster details the process of its construction from inception to completion. Our version is a replica of Leon Greenberg’s Alcometer, the predecessor of the modern Breathalyzer developed at the Center. Duplicates and review copies from the library, as well as donations, comprised the initial holdings. Considering our diverse audience of not only faculty, staff, and students, but also visitors and participants of the numerous training, treatment, and research programs, we are experimenting with serving their reading interests by providing books as varied as memoirs, bibliographies, and self-help books, in addition to academic titles.

In support of the Kean University mission, which is “dedicated to excellence in instruction and academic support services necessary to assure its socially, linguistically, and culturally diverse students the means to reach their full potential”. The library has partnered with the Kean University Center for Professional Development in an effort to provide online instructional modules. These modules will include videos and other online academic resources designed to reach a wider audience of students and faculty beyond the Union, NJ campuses. (e.g. China, Raritan Valley &Toms River, NJ) The creation of these resources helps to address the challenges of a shrinking library faculty/staff and a growing community of users. The library looks forward to this enhanced partnership with our Center for Professional Development.

NIH Public Access Policy requires that all investigators funded by the NIH must submit or have submitted for them an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central database. The final published paper must be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication in a manner consistent with copyright law. The policy is mandatory for all grants and cooperative agreements active in Fiscal Year 2008 (October 1, 2007- September 30, 2008) or subsequent fiscal years, and for all contracts awarded after April 7, 2008. Failure to comply with the NIH PAP could result in discontinuation of funding or no future funding. This poster is to present how the health sciences libraries support our authors and researchers to be in compliance with this federal policy.

This poster will describe how you can position your library as a catalyst in campus-wide partnerships. Stewart C. Baker posits the idea of using “Library” as a verb. Just as we “Google” when the need arises, our students, faculty and staff need to know how to “Library.” We will describe how we made connections with a variety of campus offices responsible for student success, in particular, the Educational Opportunities Fund Program. By creating new pathways for librarian expertise and the promotion of resources, we introduced these student-focused academic units to “library-ing.” The goal was to enable our colleagues to provide excellent academic support and to nurture their students as global citizens and lifelong learners.

The 2015 NJLA CUS/ACRL Technology Innovation Award is back! As in the recent past, two separate awards will be given to a 2-year and a 4-year institution. We welcome nominations and self-nominations to be considered for the annual awards. Nominees present their innovations in February and decisions are made in March. Winners and some nominees are invited to give a presentation at the 2015 NJLA Annual Conference in April.

Are NJ Academic Librarians avid social media users, or do they not bother with Instagram or Twitter? Are they interested using social media to connect with library organizations or do they prefer to use it solely for their personal lives? This poster will help answer these questions by presenting the results from a recent social media survey distributed by the NJLA-CUS/ACRL-NJ Chapter: Marketing and Communications Committee. The survey questioned NJ Academic Librarians about their social media practices, and was designed to help the committee better understand how and why librarians use social media so that the committee may better utilize social media to spread their message to their audience. Come learn about how other professionals use social media, see if our survey results can help influence your own social media practices, or ask us how you could create your own social media survey to question your patrons!

The poster will highlight the differences in bibliographic record display between a vendor ILS and OCLC’s Worldshare Management System (WMS) which uses a local holding record within the global utility, WorldCat. It will cover how Acquisition and Catalog functions are merged and simplified and how this has affected the technical services department workflow in an academic library.

Librarians from the two medical libraries at Rowan University, Cooper Medical School at Rowan University and the Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine, are members of the Medical Education Faculty Learning Community (FLC). The FLC has focused on interprofessional education in the health professions at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Librarians provide literature searches, published materials, support and education to members of FLC. In the coming year, the Librarians, along with other members of the FLC, will participate in training students and faculty on communication issues related to interprofessional health care. The training program is a component of a grant to the FLC from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation designed to “develop and enhance communication skills among and across the team of interprofessional health care providers early in their professional careers to ultimately improve patient care, patient safety and health care delivery”

The 2014 survey is a follow-up to surveys completed in 2003 and 2006 designed to collect data on the collections, technical services staff, systems, vendors, electronic resources, digitization, authority control, and outsourcing within VALE libraries. The poster will display information gathered from the current survey and comparison to the previous two surveys to evaluate and analyze trends affecting libraries’ technical services.