Judit Ward

Judit H. Ward, Ph.D., M.L.I.S.
Director of Information Services, Center of Alcohol Studies
Adjunct Faculty, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers
Director, ECL North America

Office – BAS Room 358 (CAS Library)
Tel: (732) 445-4442
Fax: (732) 445-5944
Email: judit.ward@rutgers.edu

Current Research
  • Human information behavior in the academic research community
  • Information evaluation in the online learning environment
  • Digital libraries and digital library technologies
  • Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research methods
  • Hungarian Studies in the United States
Representative Publications

Hajnal Ward, J., Cox, J. (2009). Student workers in North American Libraries.[In Hungarian]. Könyv, könyvtár, könyvtáros [Books, libraries, librarians], 4, 36-46.

Hajnal Ward, J., Csűrös Clark, Sz. (2009). Scholarship without borders: Hungarian as a second language in research [In Hungarian].Hungarian Studies Yearbook 10. Ed. Szűcs Tibor, University of Pécs, Hungary, pp. 171-184.

Ward, J.H. (2009). Acquisitions globalized: The foreign language acquisitions experience in a research library. Library Resources & Technical Services, 53 (2), 22-29.

Hajnal Ward, J. (2008). Anything.hu: Understanding evaluation standards for online resources in Hungarian Studies, In: Une nation vivant dans sa langue. Ed. M. Farkas, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, pp. 168-183.

Clark, S., Ward, J. (2008). Bilingual marketing research: Interpreting data across languages and cultures. In: Academy of Marketing Science Volume VII: Proceedings of the Cultural Perspectives in Marketing Conference, New Orleans, LA, January 16-19, 2008, pp. 34-5. Editor: Leroy Robinson.

Hajnal Ward, J. (2007). Evaluating electronic resources in Hungarian Studies. Language, nation, identity Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Hungarian Studies. August 21-26, Debrecen, Hungary [In Hungarian]. Debrecen, Budapest : Nk. Magyarságtud. Társ., Volume 2, pp. 25-34.

Hajnal Ward, J. (2007). Könyvtárszakon Amerikában: feljegyzések az iskolapadból. (Class: A guide through the American library school. In Hungarian). Könyv, könyvtár, könyvtáros - Books, libraries, librarians. 16(3)28-33.

Hajnal Ward, J., Molnár, M. (2006). When cultures meet on the Internet [In Hungarian]. THL2, 2(1), 108-117.

Hajnal Ward, J. (2006). Digitization with DjVu in Hungarian [In Hungarian]. Könyvtári Figyelő (52)1 [Library Review], 129-137.

Hajnal Ward, J., Clark, S. (2005). Culture Contacts: An experimental American-Hungarian project in the online language-learning environment. Proceedings of the 2nd International Online Conference on Second and Foreign Language Teaching and Research. September 16-18, 2005. (pp. 79-86).

Hajnal, J., Agócs, L.cross, Veress, G., Magulya, L. (1996). WWW és nyelvoktatás. (WWW and language teaching. In Hungarian.) In: Bakonyi, P., Herdon, M. (eds), Informatika a felsőoktatásban és Networkshop ’96 (Information technology in Higher Education and Networkshop ‘96). Debrecen, pp. 1141-1155.
Dr. Ward has been at CAS since 2007. She is responsible for all operations of the Center's Research Library. Her areas of specialization include applied linguistics, medical communication and informatics, and library and information science. She has co-authored bilingual communication textbooks as well as articles on second-language acquisition and instructional technology in the online learning environment. She is a librarian-information specialist whose research interests include digital libraries, evaluation of information in the electronic environment, human information behavior, and cross-cultural research methods. She is a member of many professional organizations and the North American Director of the European Consortium for the Certificate of Attainment in Modern Languages.
Courses Taught
Digital Library Technologies School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers, 2007-
Hungarian Studies School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers (1999-2003)
Medical Communication Medical University School of Debrecen, Hungary (1989-1999)
English, Hungarian, Italian languages Medical University School of Debrecen, Hungary (1982-1999)