1. 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! NJLA- CUS & ACRL-NJ Research Committee

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

3. 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

4. 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 –ProQuest/CSA

5. 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 Articles139 Books / Indexes113 Book reviews30 White Papers; Proceedings13 Dissertations, Theses6

6. Results: By Year JournalWhite papers /Thesis / articlesBooksReviewsProceedingsDissertat.Total by Year 201011 20091222117 20082014135 200718119 200619231126 20051048123 2004453113 200333118 200296116 20012428 2000448 199926210 1998448 199721113 1996336 1995561113 1994691218 1993665118 199219111 199166 19903328 19893137 19883429 13911330136301

7. And the winner is… Drum roll… mentioned the most are: Bushman, 200447 citations Brockman, 198845 citations Butcher, 199038 citations Coughlin, Gertzog28 citations Mullen, Hartman 200721 citations Snelson, Talar 199215 citations Others……

8. And the winner is… Bushman, 200447 citations Distmantling the Public Sphere: Situating & Sustaining Leadership in the Age of the New Public Philosophy. Brockman, 198845 citations Music: A Guide to the Reference Literature. Butcher, 199038 citations Education for Equality: Women’s Rights Periodicals and Women’s Higher Education, 1849-1920. Coughlin, Gertzog, 199328 citations Lyle’s Administration of the College Library, 5 th edition. Mullen, Hartman 200721 citations “Google Scholar and the Library Web Site: The Early Response by ARL Libraries” Snelson, Talar 199215 citations “Content Analysis of ACRL Conference Papers.”

9. 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.