Dear Library Director,

It is time for your Board of Trustees to register for the seventh New Jersey State Library Trustee Institute to be held Saturday, September 25, 2010 at the Marriott Princeton Hotel and Conference Center at Forrestal. Please distribute the conference brochures and registration information sent to your library to your Board of Trustees as soon as possible. Even though we are also sent this information to your Board President directly, we are counting on you as the library director to discuss this information with your board members and to encourage them to take advantage of this educational opportunity.

The New Jersey State Library is proud to present the Trustee Institute along with our partners, the New Jersey Library Trustee Association and the New Jersey Library Association. This year\x92s conference keynote address is titled Tightrope Walk: Advocate for Funding While Winning Friends and Influencing People by New York City Council Member and former Queens Library Chief External Affairs Officer, Jimmy Van Bramer. Your trustees will also have the opportunity to attend informational workshops on library law & state aid, trustee roles & responsibilities, strategic planning, fundraising & capital campaigns, and working with Friends groups. There will be a special update on the most current legislative and budget situations.

The New Jersey State Library will once again pay for one trustee from every library (up to 200 individual libraries) to attend the conference. We encourage your library to send additional trustees, directors, and library commissioners at the very reasonable conference fee of $150 each. A small block of rooms has been reserved the night before the conference at the special rate of $129.00. Accommodations are on your own and must be made by September 10, 2010, by calling the Marriott Princeton directly at 800-943-6709 or 609-452-7800. Be sure to mention the Trustee Institute to qualify for the rate discount. Please note that no refunds will be given for cancellations after the registration deadline.

Registration for the conference takes place only online this year at: www.njstatelib.org/LDB/Events. We recommend that you, as the library director, register all of your trustees at the same time. We will then issue your library one statement or invoice if more than one trustees registers.

For further information please contact Michele Stricker at mstricker@PROTECTED.. There is something for every trustee, both new and experienced, at the New Jersey State Library Trustee Institute.

We look forward to meeting your trustees in September!

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