Congratulations to 2015's Swartzburg Award Winner Deborah Mercer!

The History and Preservation Section of the New Jersey Library Association would like to congratulate New Jersey Collections Librarian Deborah Mercer of the NJ State Library for receiving this year's Susan Swartzburg Award!

Created in 2003, the Susan G. Swartzburg Award recognizes a New Jersey Library Association member who, over a substantial number of years, has made exceptional contributions to an awareness, understanding, and/or preservation of archival and library materials in New Jersey.  It honors the memory of the Rutgers Preservation Librarian whose leadership in New Jersey inspired and influenced many others in our profession, particularly in the areas of preservation and book arts.  

Deborah, a long-time member of NJLA, has been leading the State Library's program in digitizing historic state journals and documents as well as the state's born-digital documents and providing access to these important materials.