Jana Varlejs

Contact Information

Rutgers SC&I
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071

voice: 732-932-7500 x8225, 732-846-6850 fax: 732/932-6916

e-mail: varlejs@rutgers.edu

Office Hours

By appointment, Room 204 192 College Avenue

Courses Taught

• 17:610:501 Introduction to Library and Information Professions 501
• 17:610:502 Colloquium in Library and Information Studies
• 17:610:517 Planning Outreach Services
• 17:610:519 User Instruction
• 17:610:592 Field Experience in Library and Information Services

Publications

• Strategies for Regenerating the Library and Information Professions,Eighth World Conference on Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning for the Library and Information Professions,IFLA Publications 139, editor. Munich: K.G.Saur, August 2009.
• "A New Model for Evaluating the Online Tutorial: Does Your Tutorial Reflect Your Mission" in Blazing Trails: On the Path to Information Literacy, ed. by Brad Sietz, LOEX Press (in press); with Paulette Kerr.
• "Careers in and Education for Library and Information Science," in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences," ed. by Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack. Taylor & Francis (in press)
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• "Still "Nobody's Baby"? Seeking a Global Home and High Standards for Continuing Professional Development.”Library Leadership and Management 23(Summer 2009):122-126, 139.
• "Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices." Cahiers de la Documentation62 (September 2008):6-15.
• "Staying au courant: Resources for Instruction Librarians" in Moving Targets: Understanding Our Changing Landscapes, ed. by Theresa Valko and Brad Sietz. LOEX Press, 2008, 145-148.
• "The New Jersey Academy of Library Leadership: What Impact Has It Had?" in Continuing Professional Development: Pathways to Library Leadership in the Library and Information World, ed. by Ann Ritchie and Clare Walker. K.G. Saur, 2007, 183-198. See ldrshp-paper.doc
• "Introduction to the Conference," in Continuing Professional Development: Pathways to Library Leadership in the Library and Information World, ed. by Ann Ritchie and Clare Walker. K.G. Saur, 2007, 11-19
• “CPD Needs of Some Seoul Conference Attendees. CPDWL Update, Newsletter of the Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section of IFLA (October 2006), 11-13; http://www.ifla.org/VII/s43/index.htm
• "An Online Course for Research Library Assistants: Design, Implementation Issues, and Outcomes," in Continuing Professional Development-Preparing for New Roles in Libraries: A Voyage of Discovery , ed. by Paul Genoni and Graham Walton. K.G. Saur,2005, 137-147 [with Marilyn Wilt] For the original, longer version, see Online course for assistants.pdf
• "Educating Reflective User Instruction Librarians." in Reflective Teaching: A Bridge to Learning, ed. by Carrie Kruse and Abbie Loomis, Pierian Press, 2004, 57-59.
• "The Technical Report and Its Impact on Post-World War II Information Systems: Two Case Studies" in The History and Heritage of Scientific and Technological Information Systems: Proceedings of the 2002 Conference, ed. by W. Boyd Rayward and Mary Ellen Bowden. Information Today, for ASIS&T and Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2004, pp.89-99.
• "Professional Competencies for the Digital Age: What Library Schools Are Doing to Prepare Special Librarians. Education Libraries 26 (Summer 2003), 16-18.
• "Where Has All the Passion Gone? or Time for Another Revolution?" in Revolting Librarians Redux, ed. by Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West. McFarland, 2003, pp. 24-26.
• Column on continuing education in the quarterly Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, vol. 40, no. 4-vol. 45, no.3 (Fall 1999-Fall 2004)
• "Quality Control and Assurance for Continuing Professional Education," in Continuing Professional Education for the Information Society, ed. by Patricia Layzell Ward, Saur. 2002, pp. 232-242.
• "The Quality Factor in Library/Information Science Distance Education" (in Polish), Proceedings of the Conference Distance Education for Information Society, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 2002.
• "Continuing Professional Education," in Library and Information Science Education Statistical Report 2004, ed. by Evelyn H. Daniel and Jerry D. Saye. Association for Library and Information Science Education, 2005, pp. 285-292. [annual since 1998 volume]
• "North American Models of Internet-Delivered Continuing Professional Education: Are They Exportable?" In Delivering Lifelong Continuing Education Across Space and Time, ed. by Blanche Woolls and Brooke E. Sheldon, Saur, 2001, pp. 9-15.
• "Profile of the Academic Librarian as Self-Directed Learner." In Librarians as Learners, Librarians as Teachers, ed. by Patricia Libutti. Chicago: Association of College and University Libraries, American Library Association, 1999, pp. 51-65.
• "On Their Own: Librarians' Self-Directed, Work-Related Learning, Library Quarterly, 69 (April 1999):73-201.
• "The Continuing Professional Education Role of ASIS: Fifty Years of Learning Together, Reaching Out, Seeking Identity," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50 (September 1999): 1032-1039.
• "Ralph Shaw and the Rapid Selector" in Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems, ed. by Mary Ellen Bowden, Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Robert V. Williams. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 1999, pp. 148-155.

Presentations:

• New Jersey State Library and Urban Libraries Section of NJLA, Recruiting and Mentoring a Diverse Workforce for New Jersey's Libraries, panel moderator,Monroe Township Library, June 10, 2009.
• WILU 2009 conference, Montreal, Why Are So Many First-Year Students Information Illiterate?, May 26, 2009.WILU2009Varlejs.ppt
• LOEX 2009 conference on information literacy, Albuquerque, A New Model for Evaluating the Online Tutorial: Does Your Tutorial Reflect your Mission?, May 2, 2009; with Paulette Kerr. LOEX09Kerr-Varlejs.ppt
• University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia, Library User Instruction: Learning About Learning, March 20, April 24, May 15, June 5, 2008
• Belgian Association of Documentation (ABD-BVD), Brussels, Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices, April 17, 2008
• International Federation of Library Associations, Johannesburg, Introduction; New Jersey Academy of Library Leadership, August 15-16, 2007
• Rutgers SCILS Library and Information Science Research Showcase, Information Literacy: High School to College Transition, May 9, 2007
• International Federation of Library Associations, Seoul, Korea, Professional Development Challenges, August 22, 2006.
• National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, Joining Together to Extends Library/Information Science Education, August 14-15, 2006.
• National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, Distance Education: Trends and Issues in North America, August 16, 2006.
• LOEX, "Staying au courant: Resources for Instruction Librarians," University of Maryland, May 6, 2006LOEX.ppt; 2008 revised PowerPoint
• Library Association of the City University of New York, "Setting a Professional Development Agenda: Individual and Organizational Needs," Baruch College, CUNY, April 28, 2006
• Somerset County Public Library Staff Development Day, Hillsborough, November 8, 2005, "Community Analysis on the Fly"
• International Federation of Library Associations, "An Online Course for Research Library Assistants," and "Draft Guidelines for Quality Continuing Professional Development," Oslo, August 2005
• International Federation of Library Associations, "Quality Factors in Online Continuing Education," Berlin, August 2003
• Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, "Professional Competencies for the Digital Age," New York, June 2003
• LOEX 2003, "Workshop on Educating Reflective Library User Instructors," Madison, Wisconsin, May 2003
• Chemical Heritage Foundation/ASIST 2nd Conference on the History and Heritage of Scientific and Technical Information Systems, "The Technical Report and Its Impact on Post-World-War II Information Systems: Two Case Studies," Philadelphia, November 2002
• International Federation of Library Associations, Continuing Professional Education Conference, "Quality Issues," Aberdeen, Scotland, August 2002
• Institute of Library and Information Science, Jagiellonian University Conference on Distance Education, "DE Quality Standards" Krakow, Poland, June 2002
• 31st Annual Workshop on Instruction in Library Use, "Education for User Instruction," University of New Brunswick-Fredericton, Canada, May 2002,
• International Federation of Library Associations, Continuing Professional Education Conference, "Continuing Education at a Distance," Chester, VT, August 2001
• New Jersey Library Association, College and University Section, "Research Methods Clinic," Atlantic City, April 2001
• New Jersey Library Association, College and University Section, "Academic Librarians' Self-Directed Learning," East Brunswick, April 2000

• Institute for Museum and Library Services, Building the Multicultural. Multilingual New Jersey Library Staff, 2006-2009 (with NJ State Library, others)
• Institute for Museum and Library Services, Diversity: The Cornerstone for Recruiting Librarians and Library Staff for NJ's Urban Libraries, 2003-2006 (with NJ State Library, others)
• Institute for Museum and Library Services, Online Library Assistant Training Program, 2002-2004 (with K. Novick and I. Percelli)
• Research Award, New Jersey Library Association, College and University Section, 2000

Research Interests in Professional Development/Continuing Education

Evaluation of continuing education

Quality factors in distance education

Librarians' informal workplace learning

Assessment of the state of continuing education in the library/information science profession

Other Research Interests

Information literacy

History of the graduate program in library/information studies at Rutgers

Information science history

Service

Standing Committee, Continuing Professional Development & Workplace Learning, International Federation of Library Associations, 2002- ; chair, 2005-2007; treasurer, 2007-

American Library Association, Accreditation External Review Panel, 2005-

Rutgers LIS Admissions Committee, chair, 2007-2008

Rutgers LIS Curriculum Committee, chair,1999- 2002; member 2002-2006

LIS liaison, Rutgers Libraries Minorities Residency, 1998-

Faculty advisor, Rutgers University Special Libraries Association Student Group, 1999-

New Jersey State Library, literacy grant reviewer, 2006-2008

ProfessionalAssociation Memberships

American Library Association

Special Libraries Association

American Society for Information Science & Technology

Association for Library and Information Science Education

International Federation of Library Associations-Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section

American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)

New Jersey Library Association

NJ Association of School Librarians

Education

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

MLS, Rutgers

AB, Bryn Mawr

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Jana Varlejs (varlejs@rutgers.edu)

Last revision July 2009