The NJIT Library serves as the scholarly information center to assist with advancing the university’s mission by supporting the teaching, learning, and research activities. The Library reports to the Provost and Senior Executive Vice President. The Library connects the students, faculty, staff, and NJIT community with rich and diverse resources, fosters meaningful learning experiences, and provides innovative research support services.
Leadership Team
Ann D. Hoang
University Librarian
E-MAIL
973-596-5798
John Kromer
Associate University Librarian, Research and Engagement
E-MAIL
973-642-4397
Gordon Xu
Associate University Librarian, Collections and Information Technology
E-MAIL
973-596-3205
Maya Gervits
Director of Littman Library
E-MAIL
973-642-4390
Richard Donegan
Director of Library Operations
E-MAIL
973-596-5586
Lucy Velez
Business Manager
E-MAIL
973-596-3207
Research, Engagement, and Access Department
The Research, Engagement, and Access (REA) Department, led by the Associate University Librarian, consists of librarians and staff providing public-facing support services, outreach, and engagement. The REA Department is the first point of contact for the students, faculty, staff, and community seeking information, researching support, and accessing the library collections. Key functions include:
- Library instruction, research and reference support services
- Subject liaison support and citation impact metrics analysis
- Open access and open education support
- Data and digital scholarship management support
- Outreach, engagement, promotion, and communication
- Content development for websites, guides, and tutorials
- Access and resource sharing of collections
- Collection development and management
- Facilities and collaborative spaces management
- Assessment of research, instruction and access services and resources
Contact the REA Department at askalibrarian@njit.edu | Subject Liaison Librarians
John Kromer
Associate University Librarian, Research and Engagement
E-MAIL
973-642-4397
Maya Gervits
Director of Littman Library
E-MAIL
973-642-4390
Littman Library
Richard Donegan
Director of Library Operations
E-MAIL
973-596-5586
Annie Chatterjee, Ed. D.
Open Access & Scholarly Communications Librarian
E-MAIL
973-596-3259
Kennedy Jones lll
Architecture, Art and Design Librarian
E-MAIL
973-596-5755
Littman Library
Michelle Kudelka
Student Success Librarian
E-MAIL
973-596-8499
Jill Lagerstrom
Research and Instruction Librarian
E-MAIL
973-642-4977
Zoe Mooneyhan
Research and Instruction Librarian
E-MAIL
973-596-8498
Bob Vietrogoski
Research and Instruction Librarian
E-MAIL
973-642-4950
Luci Parrish
Library Access Services and Outreach Coordinator
E-MAIL
973-596-8495
Cherron Bradshaw
Library Assistant I (Access Services)
E-MAIL
973-596-3083
Littman Library (60%)
Van Houten Library (40%)
Rhonda Greene-Carter
Library Assistant (Interlibrary Loan)
E-MAIL
973-596-5408
Sam King
Library Assistant I (Data Collection)
E-MAIL
973-596-3209
Tanika People
Library Assistant I (Stacks Maintenance)
E-MAIL
973-596-5410
Stephanie Young
Library Assistant I (Administrative Support)
E-MAIL
973-596-4394
Shaheedah Dunn
Part-Time Library Assistant (Access Services)
E-MAIL
973-596-6371
Timothy Krick
Part-Time Library Assistant (Access Services)
E-MAIL
973-596-3083
Littman Library
Vacant
Part-Time Library Assistant (Access Services)
Technology, Collections, and Preservation Department
The Technology, Collections, and Preservation (TCP) Department, led by the Associate University Librarian, consists of librarians and staff providing back-office support for information technology, collection management, and preservation of the library’s collections and services. The TCP Department is the first point of contact for acquiring, processing, and managing the library’s collections. Additionally, TCP staff ensure seamless and uninterrupted access to the library’s resources and services. Key functions include:
- Acquisition of library resources in all formats
- Catalog and process library resources in all formats
- Educate and train staff on new applications and technologies
- Preserve scholarly content for discovery
- Curate, create, and digitize special collections and archives
- Data and digital scholarship management support
- Develop, create and maintain library websites and applications
- Manage technology infrastructure and resource authentication
- Assessment of technologies, resources, and services
Contact the TCP Department at libtech@njit.edu
Gordon Xu
Associate University Librarian, Collections and Information Technology
E-MAIL
973-596-3205
Matthew Brown
Archivist and Digital Initiatives Librarian
E-MAIL
973-596-5235
Vision
The vision of the NJIT Library is to be a transformative research library, empowering the NJIT community with innovative services and impactful collections sustained by strategic partnerships.
Mission
The mission of the NJIT Library is to foster the exchange of ideas across the University’s educational and research communities by identifying, organizing, preserving, and ensuring responsive access to information and knowledge that supports all forms of scholarship.
Core Values
The NJIT Library’s core values guide our behavior, reflect our strategic decisions and operational approaches, and inform how we develop our staffing, services, programs, collections, and spaces.
Stewardship
- We prudently identify, acquire, organize, preserve, and disseminate information, resources, and scholarship.
Service and Access
- We provide user-responsive services and universally equal access to information resources.
Collaboration and Partnership
- We foster collaboration and partnership through openness and transparency.
Innovation and Experimentation
- We strive to adopt emerging services, tools, and technologies for continuous learning and exploration.
Diversity and Inclusion
- We practice and celebrate inclusiveness and are sensitive to cultural and personal differences.
Lifelong Learning Culture
- We assist and enable the advancement of knowledge and respect the needs of future generations.
Accountability
- We commit to evidence-based planning, decision-making, financial stewardship, management, and assessment.
Newark Area Library Catalogs
- Rutgers University Libraries catalog
- Rutgers University Library: Health Sciences catalog
- Newark Public Library catalog
- Essex County College Library catalog
Northeast New Jersey Library Catalogs
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Library Catalog
- Montclair State University Library Catalog
- Kean University Library Catalog
- New Jersey City University Library Catalog
- William Paterson University Library Catalog
New York City Library Catalogs
- Columbia University Libraries Catalog
- New York Public Library
- City University of New York Libraries Catalog
- Polytechnic University, Brooklyn Catalog
New Jersey Libraries
- Links to New Jersey Colleges and University Library Systems - compiled by the State Library
OCLC WorldCat.org
WorldCat.org links you to 2 billion items (books, videos, journals, and more) available through 10,000 libraries worldwide.
Google Book Search
Subscription-based access to Building Green Suite is only available to Maya Gervits, Director of the Littman Architecture Library.
Please contact her for further research assistance.
Phone (973) 596-4390
Click to go to Building Green Suite
The library does not usually purchase videotapes and DVD's because such material are generally intended for classroom use or viewing as part of course assignments. Videotapes and DVD's to be used in that way-as teaching materials and instructional aids-are the financial responsibility of the academic departments.
On occasion when the library purchases videotapes or DVD's from its own materials budget, the decision to purchase such material on a given topic is made the by librarian with liaison responsibility to the appropriate department. Some rules of thumb guide the librarians in their decision:
- Would the library normally purchase material on the subject?
- Is the subject appropriate for the medium of the moving image? Or would a book on the subject be more appropriate?
- Does the videotape or DVD cost near the amount that a book would cost on a similar treatment of the same subject?
- Is the videotape or DVD more likely to be used as teaching material or an instructional aid or is the videotape more likely to be of interest to general library users seeking information on that subject?
Videotapes and DVD's which the library purchases from its own materials budget are not scheduled for users so that they are available at a given day or time for guaranteed use. The library has no automated or manual mechanism for scheduling materials for viewing or borrowing. In addition, if the library scheduled videotapes and DVD's, it would be supporting their public exhibition, which would, in most cases, violate copyright laws and videotape and DVD purchase agreements.
The library does have a small circulating collection of entertainment videotapes (e.g., feature films) that have been donated to the library. The library will accept additional donations of such videotapes, as well as DVD's, subject to review by the library for appropriateness and copyright compliance. These, too, are not scheduled.
The library will store and circulate videotapes and DVD's purchased by academic departments for use as teaching materials and instructional aids, but it will not schedule them unless a prior separate mutually signed agreement between the library and the department has been worked out. In those cases, insuring the usage agreement is in compliance with copyright law is the responsibility of the department purchasing the material.
Adopted at the Dec 14, 2001 Librarians Meeting
Information Literacy & the Library Website
Maya Gervits and Jessica Fadel worked on the redesign of the Architecture Library page. Bruce Slutsky, Haymwantee Sighn, Davida Scharf, and Heather Huey worked on the Research Helpdesk pages for the main library website. The requirement to move all content from one webserver to another was a time-consuming task but critical to information literacy in the fall, so it took an unwished for priority. Training was delayed, but all necessary content was eventually moved with some minor improvements as possible. All the librarians learned and used Site Studio to recode, update, restructure research help desk pages to better fit the needs of our students and guide library instruction. New pages were added; old out of date pages were updated or taken down. Bruce, using information from his Google analytics study, cleaned out the subject guides and revamped the remaining ones. Heather worked with other librarians to craft and then coded a set of 17 FAQs in Site Studio for the first time for the library website.
Information Literacy at the School of Architecture
Maya Gervits participated in a team of librarians who developed Information Competencies for Students in Design Disciplines.
Intelliresponse
Haymwantee Singh has been learning the new Intelliresponse software system being used at NJIT. With the rest of the library staff, she will input the required 85 questions to start this on online database of FAQs.
Fall Semester Instruction Preparation
The summer is the time for scheduling, organizing and planning for the busy fall semester.
Bruce Slutsky, Haymwantee Singh and Davida Scharf focused on info literacy planning with Interim Dean, John Schuring and Prof. Ron Rockland at NCE in order to create an IL implementation plan that works within the NCE curriculum. Meetings were postponed several times due to ABET planning. They met once with the new Dean during the summer who agreed with the planning that had preceded. (See the Strategic Plan for more details). This consumed much of the summer for Engineering librarians.
All librarians were active in seeking to increase collaborations with professors to prepare and schedule upcoming instructional sessions. Since our goal is to integrate closely with the existing syllabus, session preparation and collaboration though time consuming received a high priority.
Information Literacy Assessment
All librarians frequently develop and use formative assessment tools—usually exercise during or following class that put the knowledge to work in some way. The in-class exercises for architecture studio sessions and Freshman Composition classes are collected and graded by the librarians. This way, we can assess what the students were not able to understand in the session to improve information literacy instruction and to share with professors which students need more instruction. This mostly addresses ACRL standards #2 and #5. Heather Huey designed an information literacy assessment experiment to test in the fall semester in HUM 101.
Approximately 80 graduating CS majors took the iSkills test and scored somewhat higher overall than students in previous studies. ETS iSkills data from Spring 2007 was analyzed, then ETS notified us that there had been errors in the online reports, so this must still be re-analyzed.
The ETS/NJIT collaborative study team (including Davida and Heather) is still working on the draft of the study which must still go for internal peer-review at ETS.
Davida also participated in monthly conference call meetings as a member of the ETS National Advisory Board to the iSkills test. The annual meeting is scheduled for October, at the University of Central Florida.
ACRL-NJ User Education Committee
As part of the ACRL-NJ User Education Committee we began a study to assess the ICT skills and thoughts of New Jersey Academic Librarians using the ETS iSkills test. We hosted the June meeting that included a session at NJIT at which ACRL-NJ librarians could take the test and then discuss it. Only 5 librarians took the scored version of the test, so the sample was too small to be statistically meaningful. However the discussion that followed seemed to be helpful to those who attended and NJIT did advance knowledge of the test in the NJ community.
WebCT Training
The librarians turned backup support routines for WebCT. Not only will this help when Blake Haggerty is out on leave, but this training has increased our knowledge to better help students at the research help desk.
Library Video for Freshmen
Davida scripted the library video, working with Joseph Rios and staff to execute. This video is on NJIT iTunes University and the library’s homepage. This is required viewing for all First Year Seminar Courses. The students have to complete an assignment to answer questions explained in the video.
Endnote
Reference and other librarians received introductory training and a handout prepared by Davida on Endnote with instructions that have also been posted on the website
Miniversity
Heather Huey gave tours and a brief introduction to the library to all miniversity sessions in June and July.
MySpace & Facebook
Heather Huey presented on the use of myspace & facebook at Rutgers. She continues to research ways to use this tool for information literacy, yet currently finds it is most effective for marketing library resources and appearing more approachable to answer reference questions.
The NJIT library has a number of instruments and devices from Edward Weston's Newark laboratory. Edward Weston was an rival of Thomas Edison in the early development of electricity. He was also an early contributor to the founding of the Newark Technical School--which eventually became New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Weston Hall at NJIT is named for him and for his son--Edward Faraday Weston.
Location of the Weston Museum
The museum is on the 1st and 3rd floor (near the elevator) of the Van Houten Library.
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