NJLA CUS ACRLNJ Research Committee 25 th Anniversary

NJLA- CUS & ACRL-NJ Research Committee 25 th Anniversary: 1985 -2010 The Research Committee was formed in 1985 by three librarians: Amy Job (WPU), Dr. Norma Yueh (RU), and Sister Anita Talar (SHU), with mentoring by Dan O'Connor (Rutgers Univ. Library School). The first awards were given in 1988. Usually one or two Research Award winners were named each year, plus three to eight Research Forum presenters. AND The many people who have served on the committee and submitted nominations through all these years. Thank you!

Research Committee Impacts Research Awards 1988 - 2009 “So they got the award, then what?

Topics The winning research award publications entire field of librarianship AND education/pedagogy PLUS subject areas. 29 Research Award given to 41 people. Focused on a wide range of issues: The literature on… = 7 Librarianship = 4 Teaching = 4 Collections / Access = 4 Management / Leadership =3 User studies = 3 Technologies = 2 Subject expertise = 2

Impacts Use of traditional citation analysis to assess impacts. Thanks to Cathy Ryan (Drew) and Linda Dempf (TCNJ) for all the hours spent on this! Sources included: LISTA - EBSCO ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science) -Thomson Scopus -Elsevier Google Scholar and Google Books Worldwide Political Science Abstracts –Pro. Quest/CSA

Results From the original 28 publications: including the first award in 1988 and last year’s (2009). “We” were mentioned/used over 300 times! Our Research Award publications were cited in various types of media (ranked by most to least): Type of Publication # of citations Articles 139 Books / Indexes 113 Book reviews 30 White Papers; Proceedings 13 Dissertations, Theses 6

Results: By Year Journal articles 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 Books 12 20 18 19 10 4 3 9 2 4 2 3 5 6 6 1 3 3 3 139 Reviews 1 2 14 2 4 5 3 6 4 4 6 4 11 3 6 9 6 3 1 4 113 White papers / Thesis / Proceedings Dissertat. Total by Year 1 2 1 17 1 35 1 19 3 1 1 26 8 1 23 3 1 1 8 1 16 2 8 8 2 10 8 13 6 1 1 13 1 2 18 5 1 18 1 11 6 2 8 3 7 2 9 30 13 6 301

And the winner is… Drum roll… mentioned the most are: Bushman, 2004 47 citations Brockman, 1988 45 citations Butcher, 1990 38 citations Coughlin, Gertzog 28 citations Mullen, Hartman 2007 21 citations Snelson, Talar 1992 15 citations Others……

And the winner is… Bushman, 2004 47 citations Distmantling the Public Sphere: Situating & Sustaining Leadership in the Age of the New Public Philosophy. Brockman, 1988 45 citations Music: A Guide to the Reference Literature. Butcher, 1990 38 citations Education for Equality: Women’s Rights Periodicals and Women’s Higher Education, 1849 -1920. Coughlin, Gertzog, 1993 28 citations Lyle’s Administration of the College Library, 5 th edition. Mullen, Hartman 2007 21 citations “Google Scholar and the Library Web Site: The Early Response by ARL Libraries” Snelson, Talar 1992 15 citations “Content Analysis of ACRL Conference Papers. ”

Impacts And this was only the 29 winners; we reviewed much more output from NJ Librarians. What’s Next? -- YOU! Please join us on the Research Committee See web link in your booklet Please offer up your publication and/or research project We honor both: Last year’s best research publication AND Research Forum winners: works in progress THANKS.