Your Library in Action! Scholarly pursuits, professional development, and recent achievements of the Cheng Library Faculty & Staff. Nancy Weiner (Assistant Director Access & Information Services) co-authored, with fellow Cheng Librarian Cara Berg, How are we doing? Using faculty feedback to assess the impact of library instruction on student work. Yvonne Roux (Head of Curriculum Materials) presented with Cara Berg, Tools and Strategies to Teach News Literacy, at the Professional Development Network in November. Yvonne Co-presented, Using Picture Book Biographies and Primary Sources with K-8 Students, at the New Jersey Association of School Librarians NJASL Conference. Also at the NJASL Conference Yvonne joined fellow WP Faculty member Ellen Pozzi to present Examining Gender and Culture in Traditional Folk and Fairy Tale. Cara Berg (Co-Coordinator of User Education) recently published No assignment? Just flip it: The flipped classroom in first-year library instruction along with her co-authored work with Nancy Weiner. Cara co-presented "Bridging the Transition Together" at the NJASL Conference and joined fellow Cheng Librarian Tony Joachim (Instructional Design Librarian & Co-Coordinator of User Education) to present The Design and Use of a Web-Based Model in First Year Library Instruction, at the VALE Users’ Conference. Cara serves as the Vice-President/President-Elect for ACRL-NJ/NJLA CUS, as the Lead on the Strategic Partnerships Project Team of the ACRL Student Learning & Information Literacy Committee, and Breakout Committee Chair on the VALE Conference Planning Committee. Sarah Hughes (Access Services Librarian) presented Collecting Student Course Reserve Requests at Service Desks Using a Webform, at the VALE Users’ Conference, Using Teamup for Scheduling, for the Back in Circulation Again Conference at the University of Wisconsin, and developed a poster presentation titled Tracking Reserves Not Owned: Collecting Student Reserves Requests at Service Points Using a Web Form for the Access Services Conference at Georgia Tech. Sarah is also a member of the 2019 VALE Users’ Conference Planning Committee. Richard Kearney (Electronic Resources Librarian) authored New Life for a Classic Format: A Conversation with Nutley Public Library’s Nick Van Dorn on the Return of Vinyl Records to the Collection, for the Fall 2018 New Jersey Library Association Newsletter. Richard also co-presented, Purchasing and Licensing E-Resources: A More Robust Role for VALE through Member Engagement, at the VALE Users’ Conference and Baking an OER Initiative from Scratch, at the EdgeCon Annual Conference. Gary Marks, Jr. (Reference & Outreach Librarian) authored two articles for the NJLA-CUS/ACRL-NJ Fall 2018 Newsletter, Civic engagement and academic libraries: A round-table workshop and Marketing & outreach committee launches international social media directory of academic libraries. Gary co-presented, The academic library and civic engagement: Experiences, examples, and resources, and Marketing & outreach showcase at the VALE Users’ Conference. Gary serves as the Legislative Representative on NJLA-CUS/ACRL-NJ Executive Board, as Social Media Coordinator on the ACRL Politics, Policy, and International Relations Section Executive Board, and was an invited speaker at the NJLA Public Policy Forum in December. January 30, 2019
