February 3rd 2011
LIBRARY SUPPORT STAFF CERTIFICATION PROGRAM OFFERS REGISTRATION ASSISTANCE AWARDS Released by the American Library Association - Allied Professional Association January 31, 2011 For more information call Nancy Bolt at 303 642 0338 or email to nancybolt@PROTECTED As part of a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) program, a program of the American Library Association-Allied Professional Association, will be offering Registration Assistance Aw ...Continue Reading
February 2nd 2011
The Broadband Technology Opportunity Program, commonly known as the BTOP Grant, is a grant received by the New Jersey State Library and funded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Its aim is to help address the high unemployment numbers in NJ by helping Librarians become better resource aids to their customers and help the library\x92s customers become more self-sufficient in their job search and job application efforts. One aspect of the ...Continue Reading
January 31st 2011
Strategic Planning Template & Workshops The New Jersey State Library supports strategic planning as a management tool to determine a library\x92s mission, vision, values, goals and objectives, roles and responsibilities, and to determine benchmarks and timelines that will shape the library\x92s future. All libraries should have an updated strategic plan of three to five years, initiated by the Board of Trustees. To assist libraries with their long-range planning goals, the New Jersey State Library has contracted ...Continue Reading
January 28th 2011
Registration opens for free marketing webinar series The New Jersey State Library is pleased to bring an innovative marketing webcast series to our library community. This four-part marketing series will provide hands-on guidance to acquire new cardholders, meet cardholder and community needs, and align services and programs with mission-critical goals. In this era of belt-tightening and decreased resources, the workshops will identify ways we can use marketing techniques to strengthen our value to the communities we s ...Continue Reading
January 25th 2011
The Public Library Survey 2010 is now open and can be accessed at http://collect.btol.com/. Login information is the same as previous years. In case you do not have the login information, please request it by email or phone mentioned in contact information of the attached FAQs. All instructions are included in the survey and for easier access to instructions while in the survey, you may click on the number of the question (if it is underlined). Important due dates: 1. March 15th for 2010 NJSL 12APP (Link is in betwee ...Continue Reading
January 24th 2011
For your information, Local Finance Notice 2011-4 dated January 21, 2011 was emailed to municipal CFOs today. A Section of this notice explains Library Surplus Transfers. Best wishes, Victoria Victoria Rosch Associate State Librarian New Jersey State Library vrosch@PROTECTED 609.278.2640 ext.157 Library Surplus Transfers: Chapter 83 of P.L. 2010 established conditions requiring transfer of certain public library fund balance amounts to a municipality and that the transferred funds be used exclusively as property ta ...Continue Reading
January 19th 2011
Due to weather conditions last week, the Job & Career Accelerator workshops have been rescheduled. Learning Express will be facilitating in-person training sessions on the following dates: Ocean County Public Library \x96 Toms River branch Monday, February 7th 9:30am \x96 12:00pm Ocean City Free Public Library Tuesday, February 8th 2:00pm \x96 4:30pm North Bergen Free Public Library Wednesday, February 9th 2:00pm \x96 4:30pm If you or your staff is interested in attending, please register for one of the upcomin ...Continue Reading
January 19th 2011
The 2009 \x93New Jersey Public Library Statistics\x94 and \x93Analyses of New Jersey Public Library Statistics\x94 are now online http://www.njstatelib.org/LDB/Statistics/2009-data.php. NJ Public Library statistics from 2000- can be accessed at http://www.njstatelib.org/LDB/Statistics/ National and state summary data on public libraries in the United States going back to 1989 can be accessed at http://harvester.census.gov/imls/pubs/pls/index.asp. Please feel free to send me any comments /feedback on collecting and t ...Continue Reading
January 19th 2011
The 2009 \x93New Jersey Public Library Statistics\x94 and \x93Analyses of New Jersey Public Library Statistics\x94 are now online http://www.njstatelib.org/LDB/Statistics/2009-data.php. NJ Public Library statistics from 2000- can be accessed at http://www.njstatelib.org/LDB/Statistics/ National and state summary data on public libraries in the United States going back to 1989 can be accessed at http://harvester.census.gov/imls/pubs/pls/index.asp. Please feel free to send me any comments /feedback on collecting and t ...Continue Reading
January 18th 2011
Colleagues, The New Jersey State Library, with the assistance of E-Rate Central, an E-rate consulting firm based in New York state, has filed a Form 470 on behalf of all New Jersey libraries seeking to apply for E-rate discounts on Ethernet connections up to 1 Gbps to the JerseyConnect network. What does this mean exactly? If you already apply for E-rate discounts and your library already connects to the JerseyConnect network you will not need to file your own Form 470 to start the E-rate competitive bidding proces ...Continue Reading
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