Dear Colleagues, The recording for the October Directors' Check-in is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCW9z7bVWrM The next Directors' Check-in will be held at 2:00PM on Tuesday, November 16th.  A separate registration email will follow. Best regards, Bob Keith Director of Library Law, State Aid, and Statistics New Jersey State Library Street Address: 185 W. State St. Trenton, NJ 08608 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 520 Trenton, NJ 08625 P: 609-278-2640x192 F: 609-278-2650 rkeith@PROTECTED ...Continue Reading

Posted on behalf of EBSCO. EBSCO requests your attendance at a focus group to discuss their products.  The focus group will be held on Thursday, October 21st from 9:00AM - 10:45AM.  The agenda and speaker bios are attached to this message.  Please RSVP at https://forms.office.com/r/mSk1bDL2qt  ...Continue Reading

The NJ Dept of Labor has a new grant opportunity for libraries, please visit the Community Library NGO posting at https://www.nj.gov/labor/research-info/grants.shtml for information and application. Jen Jen Nelson State Librarian New Jersey State Library 609 278 2640 ext. 101 | jnelson@PROTECTED Street Address: 185 West State Street Trenton, NJ 08608 Mailing Address: PO Box 520 Trenton, NJ 08625-0520 ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues, Please pass this along to your trustees, and let them know that these trainings count toward the seven hours of trustee training required for Per Capita State Aid. We hope you can join us for the October Trustees' Check-in on Thursday, October 14th at 7:00PM. Michele Stricker Pat Tumulty, Pat Pavlak and I will be joined by Executive Director of LibraryLinkNJ Ralph Bingham. Ralph will go over the programs and services his organization provides to libraries throughout New Jersey as well as answer you ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues, We hope you can join us for the October Directors' Check-in on Tuesday, October 12th at 2:00PM.  Michele Stricker and I will be joined by Executive Director of LibraryLinkNJ Ralph Bingham.  Ralph will go over the programs and services his organization provides to libraries throughout New Jersey as well as answer your questions.  Please use the link below to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HvyiUcFeSCelJpMUVxmlnw Best regards, Bob Keith Director of Library Law, ...Continue Reading

You’re invited! NJSL has 30 open licenses available for New Jersey libraries to participate in a pilot program with the Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment project. While Northstar is free to use, a license for your library (single location or including branches) will allow you to assess users and issue digital literacy certificates. Northstar is a preeminent tool for helping people understand their digital literacy skills and needs, and has curriculum available for designing digital literacy classes. NJSL is pleased ...Continue Reading

Posted on behalf of LibraryLinkNJ The LibraryLinkNJ (LLNJ) Delivery Task Force is preparing for the next LLNJ Delivery RFP and needs your help. Each week day for a two week period in October (10/18 - 10/29), all participants (a participant is defined as a stop on a delivery route) within the LLNJ statewide delivery network will be _required to count both_ the individual number of items sent _out_ into the statewide delivery system as well as the number of small or large packages full of items all going to the same d ...Continue Reading

Posted on behalf of EBSCO I am reaching out on behalf of EBSCO regarding a focus group meeting that they would like to convene with a small group of New Jersey  librarians. EBSCO would like to hear from you regarding your challenges, goals, impact of COVID changes on library resources and needs.  Also, EBSCO has been working on a new User Interface  for the  EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service platforms and are seeking feedback from librarians regarding their experiences with current  platf ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues, Please visit the following link for the 2022 One Third Mill spreadsheet.  If you have any questions about it please let me know. https://www.njstatelib.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2022_Minimum_Amount_Needed_to_Qualify_for_1_25_Per_Capita_One-Third_Mill.xls If that link does not work please visit https://www.njstatelib.org/services_for_libraries/resources/per_capita_state_aid/ and look for the heading Data Year 2022.   Best regards, Bob Keith Director of Library Law, ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues, The last year and a half have been trying for everyone, especially library staff and management.  You maintained library services in ways that most of us never dreamed possible and from what we hear from around the State you did it with grace and aplomb.  Directives from State government intended to protect library staff and patrons from COVID transmission also prevented libraries from achieving many State Aid minimum standards during this time.  At the beginning of the pandemic, then S ...Continue Reading