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The annual student yearbook was first published in 1925 as "The Kokoon" when William Paterson University was Paterson State Normal School. The title changed over time but has been "The Pioneer" since 1941

Pioneer 2012

The Authors' Bibliography, compiled by the David & Lorraine Cheng Library, lists the scholarly achievements of University colleagues whose works include books, journal articles and other substantial works--including media. The authors' bibliography is published on an annual basis and presented at the Authors' Reception as part of Explorations

Authors' bibliography

William Paterson University research and scholarly publications compiled for the annual authors reception

David and Lorraine Cheng Library

Research and Scholarship Day

Board of Trustees Minutes 09/23/2011

Board of Trustees Retreat Minutes 09/23/2011

Spring 2011, Volume 10, Issue 2 The Newsletter of the David and Lorraine Cheng Library  
 The Library purchased ―starter 
packs‖ of 40 titles in seven subject 
areas available from Ebrary: nursing, 
sports, education, special education, 
and interdisciplinary studies among 
others.  Selected titles were included 
from other disciplines as well.  More 
than 100 titles from the Choice Out-
standing Academic Titles list are also 
part of the Library’s Ebrary collection. 
 But it is not just the content that is 
attractive about this new collection.  
The Ebrary company has developed 
software that enables readers to utilize 
many advanced features of their ―Info-
Tools‖ menu.   
 Especially noteworthy is the ability 
to highlight text and add notes to the  
e-books.  Users are permitted to create 
individual accounts in Ebrary which 
will save their personal notations and 
will show a list of the books in a per-
sonal ―bookshelf.‖ 
 Additional features include the 
ability to: 
 Navigate using the table of con-
tents. 
 Flip through pages, or jump to 
specific page numbers. 
 Search for occurrences of a spe-
cific word throughout the book. 
 Add a hyperlink to selected text.  
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 Electronic resources represent a 
popular format for the dissemination 
of scholarly information, and e-books 
are just one facet of this type of re-
source.  E-book publishing has in-
creased markedly over the past few 
years, and nearly every publisher now 
offers books electronically. 
 Library users are also eager to ac-
cess more materials in electronic for-
mat — a trend that has been increasing 
annually.  As a result, academic and 
public libraries seek to balance their 
collections with both print and elec-
tronic resources.  This trend, supple-
mented with the appeal of remote ac-
cess, led to the Cheng Library’s deci-
sion to dedicate a portion of its materi-
als budget to the purchase of additional 
books in electronic format. 
 To satisfy this interest in e-books,  
the Cheng Library recently acquired a 
new collection of nearly 500 electronic 
books from the Ebrary E-Book Ser-
vice.  Ebrary provides content from 
hundreds of different publishers, in-
cluding many well-known academic 
publishers.  When combined with the 
Library’s existing collection of more 
than 4,000 e-books available from Net-
Library, the total number of e-books is 
more than 4,700. 
Library Introduces New E-Book Collection 
 Copy and print with automatic cita-
tions. 
 Use ―InfoTools‖ to expand your 
search to information on the web. 
 
 Below is a small selection of titles in 
the Ebrary collection.   
 
 Essentials of Nursing Leadership 
 and Management 
 Young Women in Japan: Transi-
 tions to Adulthood 
 From Immigrants to Americans: 
 The Rise and Fall of Fitting In 
 Fair Play: The Ethics of Sport 
 New Urban Sociology 
 Role of the Father in Child Devel-
 opment 
 Dyslexia: Students in Need 
 Media, Markets and Democracy 
 Health Promotion Programs: From 
 Theory to Practice 
 Women in Early Imperial China 
 Language and Literacy Develop-
 ment 
 Ancient Maya: New Perspectives 
 Children’s Speech Sound Disorders 
 Global Tectonics 
  
 To access these and other e-books in 
this collection, simply type ―ebrary‖ in 
the Library’s online catalog and click on 
the hypertext link. 
A view of Ebrary’s electronic book screen showing the InfoTools link and some of the features for searching and navigating. 
2 Connections - Spring 2011 
The Friends of the Cheng Library: Recent and Forthcoming Events  
magnitude, all partners bring strategic 
roles and fundamental knowledge to 
the venture.   
 The Friends of the Library also 
sponsored a lecture by Dr. David 
Gilley, Assistant Professor, WPUNJ 
Biology Dept. on May 1, 2011. The 
lecture, ―Honey Bee Foraging Commu-
nication: Its Importance and New Re-
search Findings,‖ focused on the latest 
discoveries regarding honeybee com-
munication.  Dr. Gilley reported that 
after returning to the hive, honeybees 
do a ―waggle dance‖ in a figure-eight 
formation to communicate the location 
and quality of good nectar as well as its  
distance from the hive. 
  Next fall, the Friends will sponsor a 
lecture by Dr. Jim Tsiamtsiouris, Assis-
tant Professor, WPUNJ Communica-
tion Disorders Dept., titled ―The King’s 
Speech: Facts and Myths about Stutter-
ing in Children and Adults.‖ 
 The Friends of the Cheng Library 
welcomes your attendance at this 
event.  You may also consider becom-
ing an active member of the Friends.  
Additional information is available on 
the Friends’ web site, www.wpunj.edu/
friends. 
 In 1791, Alexander Hamilton, 
founded America's first planned in-
dustrial center by harnessing the en-
ergy inherent in the Great Falls and 
creating water raceways to power the 
factories.  The center, now the City of 
Paterson, was named after William 
Paterson who was governor of New 
Jersey at that time.   
 Mr. Bolger, said of this project, 
―Every park is unique. The site needs 
to speak to the users, and to pursue 
the best use with respect to the mis-
sion.‖  He expressed his vision that 
this project will use the environment 
around the park to improve the qual-
ity of life for the citizens of Paterson. 
 The mission of the National Park 
Service is to preserve the scenery and 
the natural and historic objects while 
developing the land.  Their role will 
be to interpret the land and to develop 
the park.    
 Additional partners of the park 
project include the City of Paterson, 
New Jersey Historic Commission, 
Passaic valley Water Commission, 
Passaic County Planning Commis-
sion, and the Passaic River Coalition, 
among others.  In a project of this 
 The Friends of the Cheng Library 
has had a busy calendar this academic 
year, with two programs completed and 
one scheduled for next fall. 
 Last fall, on October 31, the 
Friends sponsored a panel discussion 
on the Paterson Great Falls National 
Historical Park.  The program, entitled 
―The Future of Paterson’s Past:  What 
Can a National Park Do?‖ reviewed 
events of the history of Paterson and 
the role played by the Great Falls in the 
development of the City.  The speakers 
also explored the many ways the city 
will be transformed by the develop-
ment of this area. 
 The Great Falls of the Passaic River 
and the immediate surrounding area 
received the designation by the Federal 
government of a national historical 
park.  The bill, sponsored by Rep. Bill 
Pascrell, was signed by Pres. Obama 
on March 30, 2009. 
 The featured speakers of the event 
were Leonard A. Zax and Bill Bolger.  
Mr. Zax is President of the Hamilton 
Partnership for Paterson, and Mr. Bol-
ger was named project manager for 
Paterson Great Falls National Histori-
cal Park by the National Park Service. 
 In introducing the speakers, Associ-
ate Provost, Stephen Hahn, commented 
―A city is in large part bricks and mor-
tar, but also people, and the people in 
relation with one another.‖   
 Mr. Zax, a lawyer and a city plan-
ner with experience in community de-
velopment and historic preservation, 
was born in Paterson and grew up there 
attending local schools.  He has deep 
ties to the city and established the 
Hamilton Partnership for Paterson, a 
new non-profit organization, to help 
organize a plan for citizen participation 
in the design of the park and its educa-
tional content.   
 As Mr. Zax noted, the City of 
Paterson enjoys the designation of hav-
ing produced many of America’s 
―firsts‖: the first hydropower system, 
the first motorized submarines, the first 
sail cloth, the first Colt revolvers, and 
the first American silk fabric produc-
tion.   
A recent photograph of the Great Falls of the Passaic River, Paterson, New Jersey. 
3 Connections - Spring  2011 
 
THE FRIENDS OF THE CHENG LIBRARY 
 
 The cover of the March 2011 issue of Architectural Record features a photograph of the new mu-
seum and library at Musashino Art University in Toyko.  It is a beautiful building with light and 
space and acres of empty shelves, which has the capacity to house 300,000 volumes.  The empty 
shelves are meant to speak to the library’s potential to house these volumes, although there is also a 
sense that the future of library architecture must grapple with the fast-moving pace of electronic me-
dia.  Indeed, the lead article for this feature talks about this need and gives us a history of library de-
sign and its relationship to knowledge, power, and community engagement.   
 
 The lead article is written by James Murdock, who is a video producer for the New York Public 
Library, and the article it titled, ―Beauty and the Book: Libraries in the digital age raise questions 
about the place of books.‖  Murdock insists that architecture must help libraries transition from a 
space where books were used historically as symbols of power and wealth to ―comfortable space 
where people come together to tell their own stories and discover new ones.‖  He traces for us the rise 
of libraries during the middle ages where monks controlled the flow of information by controlling the 
use of books, to the grand libraries of Renaissance Italy where families like the Medicis built elabo-
rately decorated libraries, like the Laurentian Library designed by Michelangelo, which was meant to 
announce the arrival of the Medici family into the ruling class.  After the Enlightenment, Murdock 
shows us, libraries transformed into spaces where the working class could go to learn and better 
themselves but which still relied upon the presence of the physical book read in cavernous spaces.  
Today, however, the evolution of the book and its place in society, and the evolution of e-media, have 
again transformed the space in which these products of knowledge exist to structures that are filled 
with light and open space meant to encourage community gathering and knowledge production that is 
less solitary and more interactive.    
 
 Following Murdock’s introductory essay, the magazine looks at a handful of new library con-
struction that attempts to address this often conflicting need to provide space to house books, to make 
room for electronic media, and to create gathering spaces for communities.  The libraries featured in 
this issue are stunning: the exterior walls of the Musashino library that consist of empty bookshelves 
wrapped in glass; the glass and concrete library in Peoria, Arizona that sweeps across the desert floor; 
the juxtaposition of the new and the old in the Westmeath County Library in Mullingar, Ireland 
where stone remnants of a 19th-century prison are incorporated into the ultramodern lines of the li-
brary; and, the green metal canopy that drapes over the 17-foot-high glass wall in the Anacostia Li-
brary in Washington, D.C.   
 
 These examples of contemporary libraries are beautiful, but they also cause us to think of what 
libraries will look like in twenty or thirty or forty years.  I envision a space where the walls are made 
up of enormous screens that constantly flow information.  A library where the community gathers to 
discuss and to discover but also a place where someone can tap into these information-laden walls 
and link to an infinite array of information, where we can create intimate spaces to search endlessly 
for the information we need but where we can also find places where interaction with our communi-
ties enhance this knowledge and enrich it and us.  And the books which once populated the space we 
once visited?  Murdock comforts us and writes that, ―rest assured, books will always be there in both 
paper and digital form,‖ but perhaps the place for the printed book will no longer hold center stage 
but be an object of study as an artifact of an ever-changing system of knowledge production and 
knowledge transmittal.  
         Andrew W. Barnes 
         Chair, The Friends of the Cheng Library 
         Interim Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences 
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 It was the last piece, irregular in 
shape and measuring less than one 
inch square; and when Jill placed it in 
its proper location, the jigsaw puzzle 
was finally finished.  So ended the 
nearly year-long quest of several li-
brary staff to complete what has offi-
cially been recognized by Guinness 
World Records as the world’s largest 
commercial jigsaw puzzle. 
 Life, the Great Challenge is the 
puzzle’s title and it was designed by 
artist Royce B. McClure.  At the 
Cheng Library, the puzzle was started 
on March 27, 2010 and the final piece 
was added by Jill Pruden on February 
28, 2011.  Excluding weekends and 
days the University was closed, it took 
213 days of breaks and lunchtimes to 
put it together.  The finished puzzle 
contains 24,000 pieces and measures 
approximately 14’ x 5’.   
 After the puzzle was completed, 
Gary Marks and Maurice Vacca, who 
work in Lending Services, designed 
and constructed a frame for it.  The 
puzzle sections were then glued to the 
frame, and clear epoxy was applied to 
the entire puzzle.  Finally, on March 
16, 2011, the puzzle was hung in the 
Amy Job Classroom – a location cho-
sen mainly because it had a wall large 
enough to accommodate the puzzle! 
 The puzzle was purchased by the 
library staff, and several staff mem-
bers participated in assembling it: Pam 
Vovchuk, Jill Pruden, Mark Sandford, 
Sherri Tucker, Pat Moore, Yvonne 
Roux, Anne Ciliberti, Megan Ruszala 
and Barbara Smith. 
“Life, the Great Challenge” Puzzle Completed by Library Staff 
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Spring 2011, Volume 10, Issue 2   
William Paterson University 
Wayne, New Jersey 
Anne Ciliberti, Director 
Susan Sabatino, Editor 
Contributors: Library Staff 
 
Published by the  
David and Lorraine Cheng Library 
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back of the room where viewers mar-
vel at its dimensions, and where its 
colorful presence inspires thoughts of 
the complexity of life to daydreamers. 
 If you haven’t yet seen the fin-
ished product, stop by the Amy Job 
Classroom and take a look.  It is a 
welcomed addition to the wall at the 
 Every year, the Cheng Library 
staff recognizes the special support 
provided by the student assistants 
who work in the Library.  Their 
amiable assistance is appreciated in 
many areas of the Library. 
 The Annual Student Assistants’ 
Recognition and Awards Reception 
is held in April, and special students 
are selected to receive the Library’s 
Outstanding Student Assistant 
Awards.   
 To be eligible for the award, stu-
dents must have worked in the Li-
brary for a minimum of three semes-
ters and have excellent attendance 
records. 
 This year, the ceremony was held 
in the Paterson Room on April 21, 
2011, to recognize and honor these 
dedicated student workers.  Krystle 
Frederick and Kate Thompson, two 
students who work in the Lending 
Services Department, were selected to 
receive awards this year. 
 Krystle will graduate this May with 
a degree in Biology and has aspirations 
to attend optometry school.  Krystle has 
worked in Lending Services since the 
fall of 2009.  During that time she has 
shelved 8,420 books on the second 
floor, and has monitored nearly a half 
mile of the collection for shelving er-
rors. 
 Kate will graduate in December, 
2011 with a degree in Elementary Edu-
cation and English.  She will continue 
working during the fall semester as she 
participates in her student teaching re-
quirement.  Kate has worked in Lend-
ing Services since the fall of 2008 and 
she has shelved 10,420 books during 
that time. 
 Congratulations to Krystal and 
Kate, and a big ―thank-you‖ to all of 
the Library’s student assistants!   
Two Library Student Assistants Receive Awards 
A detail of the puzzle, Life, the Great Challenge, in the Amy Job Classroom. 


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