Dear Colleagues, Library Support Services at the New Jersey State Library, in partnership with ALA’s United for Libraries (formerly ALTAFF), has produced two webinars (links below) as an introduction to Library Law and Per Capita State Aid.  We invite you to view these webinars and then bring any questions you may have to our program at the New Jersey Library Association annual conference.  The program is called “Library Laws You Need to Know” and will be held on Wednesday June 5th from 3:30 to 4:20 in the ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues, The New Jersey Center for the Book is pleased to announce an exciting 2014 initiative to support the yearlong statewide celebration of the 350th anniversary of the founding of the State of New Jersey. We invite you to participate and to make this a showcase to include all 350 public library members that are now part of the state network of the New Jersey Center for the Book and to become active participants in this celebration. The NJCFB is sponsoring a grant program that offers public libraries the o ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues, The New Jersey Center for the Book is pleased to announce an exciting 2014 initiative to support the yearlong statewide celebration of the 350th anniversary of the founding of the State of New Jersey. We invite you to participate and to make this a showcase to include all 350 public library members that are now part of the state network of the New Jersey Center for the Book and to become active participants in this celebration. The NJCFB is sponsoring a grant program that offers p ...Continue Reading

To those public libraries that elected to participate in this settlement, I have just received permission from the Attorney General’s office to use the funds more broadly. Once a library has used their funds to purchase items related to Karposi’s sarcoma, non-small-cell lung cancer, ovarian cancer and/or breast cancer, should there be funds remaining libraries are now allowed to purchase items related to other forms of cancer treatment and prevention. I hope this will allow all librar ...Continue Reading

TO: Public libraries participating in Bristol-Myers-Squibb anti-trust settlement FROM: Kathleen Peiffer - kpeiffer@PROTECTED I have had a few questions from libraries regarding the amount of their settlement. Since the settlement was received prior to the 2010 census figures being finalized/published, your award amount is based upon the previous census figures for your community. If you have any questions please let me know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following in ...Continue Reading

Hi, all.   Following is some information you and your trustees may find of use. Thanks to all of you who supplied information regarding the FDS.     A trustee reported, and the Department of Community Affairs confirmed, that FDS does not work on Apple products. Sigh.   A library director using Chrome reported the following problem. I got as far as the Thank You! Page which states “Do not use your back button to return to the previous page.  Data contained in your form could be lost.  Mini ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues,   Thank you all very much for submitting your 2012 data.  I have posted the RAW data spreadsheet on the Statistics section of the New Jersey State Library website at http://lss.njstatelib.org/statistics.  Please take a moment to go over your library’s data and make sure everything is correct and free of data entry errors.  If you do find something wrong please email me and I will make the correction to the official data.  I will send out another message when the official 2012 ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues, The annual survey is officially closed.  Thank you all for participating.  The data you submit is very important not only for us here at the State Library but also at the national level where it is used to advocate for increased library funding.  Since we are on the topic of the survey I’d like to take the opportunity to talk to you about our Monthly Statistics program.  At the beginning of each year all of you gather your data from the previous year and enter it in the annual su ...Continue Reading

Hi, all. Please note that annual financial disclosure statements must be filed by all municipal and county library trustees and directors. You may also want to alert staff regarding this information as  paper forms are no longer permitted. The opportunity may arise for staff to assist elected and appointed officials in the same manner as they assist the general public with tax forms.   The forms and instructions for this year were recently published by the Department of Community Affairs Division of Local G ...Continue Reading

Dear Colleagues,   At this time, the allocation of funds for the Bristol-Myers-Squibb anti-trust settlement will be distributed as follows:   *Population Category                      Amount of Distribution                 * 4,999 and less                ...Continue Reading