New Jersey State Library to Provide Evanced Solutions Summer Reader to all NJ Public Libraries

The New Jersey State Library is very happy to announce that it has licensed software for three years from Evanced Solutions (http://www.evancedsolutions.com) to provide all NJ public libraries with free access to Evanced Solutions \x93Summer Reader\x94 online summer reading registration software. This means that if you choose to use this online program, provided by the NJ State Library at no cost to you, you and your library customers can do the registration for summer reading and track customers\x92 reading progress via an online reading log. Reporting your summer reading statistics will now be easy! Plus, if you choose, library staff can manage prizes and incentives, and your library customers can submit book reviews to library staff to post on the library\x92s website or the library catalog. This web-based utility provides an efficient and effective way to manage the summer reading program. Library staff can easily collect statistics and produce reports with only a few c licks. No mo re counting titles from reading folders and tallying statistics by hand!

The Evanced Solutions website will host this service that seamlessly melds the Summer Reader product into your library\x92s interface. This includes programs, database, and space on a shared server, connection of the server to Evanced Solutions high-speed internet connection, backup of the server\x92s hard disk and other maintenance on the server.

If your library would like to order this software to be installed at no cost to your library due to the State Library\x92s statewide license, please go to the Evanced Solutions website (http://www.evancedsolutions.com/njsrform.asp) and fill out and submit the form.

The program will officially \x93launch\x94 at the beginning of June, but the NJ State Library will also be setting up Webinar training sessions for library staff throughout the state in the upcoming months. A workshop will also be held at the NJLA Conference in April to provide librarians with tips on using the product by librarians that already have the program.

Evanced Solutions offers free, weekly, live webinars. If you want to try out the product on your own, a schedule is available at http://host.evanced.info/lib/eventcalendar.asp

If you have any questions about Summer Reader, please contact Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Consultant, New Jersey State Library at sraw...@njstatelib.org or 609-278-2640 ext. 116

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