Dear Valued Customer: At Infogroup, we are consolidating our services so we can offer simpler, more efficient solutions. Effective October 9, 2010, ReferenceUSA discontinued the CorpTech Database. But don't worry -- you will still be able to find in-depth data on high-tech companies like our OneSource module at www.referenceUSA.com In addition to the high-tech specific information, OneSource offers industry and analysis reports, company news, corporate linkage, executive listings and biographies. We are excited about ...Continue Reading

The New Jersey State Library will be honoring Library Champions on Nov. 19th at the Hamilton Manor, Hamilton. Proceeds from this event will benefit the New Jersey Talking Book and Braille Center. Those who will be honored that evening are: Patricia Tumulty of NJLA; Congressman Leonard Lance, Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein; Assemblyman Louis Greenwald; Kimberly Smith and the Comcast Foundation; Tina and Rocco Fiorentino and The Little Rock Foundation; Ottilie Lucas with the Friends of the Library for the Blind and Hand ...Continue Reading

Last Friday, Victoria Rosch distributed the 2010 Equalized Valuation spreadsheet via the list. If for some reason, you were unable to open it, you can now find it on the NJ State Library's website at: http://www.njstatelib.org/LDB/State_Aid/ . You will also find the Equalized Valuation Letters October 2010 on the site. They are arranged alphabetically by county on the site. After clicking on the link, enter your library's/town's name in the FIND box and your letter will come onto the screen. If you have any questi ...Continue Reading

For municipal and joint libraries only: One-third mill (.000333333) is the legal minimum for municipal and joint libraries. The calculation of the one-third mill amount assumes the library has no exemptions from the 1/3 mill law, that the municipality is operating on a calendar fiscal year and that the increase from 2009 EV is equal to or less than 15%. Please contact me should you have any questions. Best wishes, Victoria Victoria Rosch Associate State Librarian New Jersey State Library vrosch@PROTECTED 609.278.2 ...Continue Reading

Please excuse any cross posting. Dear NJ E-rate Applicants, The FCC has released its much awaited Order which changes the E-rate program to be more suitable for the 21st century. Please visit the following links (in PDF format) to the News Release and the Order itself. The national library E-rate community will be discussing the ramifications of this Order in the coming days and weeks and I will be sure to pass on any information I receive to you. FCC Enables High-Speed, Affordable Broadband for Schools and Librari ...Continue Reading

TO: NJ Public Library Community FROM: Kathleen Moeller-Peiffer, Associate State Librarian for Library Development DATE: September 15, 2010 SUBJECT: Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) components There have been a number of messages and phone calls over the past week with questions regarding this federal Recovery Act grant, especially concerning the licensing of Learning Express\x92s Job and Career Accelerator for all public libraries in New Jersey. NJ State ...Continue Reading

Subject: FREE Web-based Online Classes for Public Library Staff ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In collaboration with the New Jersey State Library and the INFOLINK Library Cooperative, LYRASIS ( www.lyrasis.org) is offering 30 FREE web-based, live online classes to public library staff in New Jersey. These programs are provided with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Opportunity Online Hardware Grant program. Lyrasis is also making them ...Continue Reading

The Per Capita State Aid amounts based on your 2009 data have been calculated. The amounts are attached and will also be posted to http://www.njstatelib.org/LDB/State_Aid/. Any reduction around 49% is due to the funding cut that the program sustained. Larger differences (plus or minus) are probably due to a change in the amount earned per capita, or to a correction amount that was received in 2009. The checks will be mailed by October 1, 2010. If you do not receive your check by October 15th, please check with your m ...Continue Reading

You are cordially invited to attend the first-ever Library Champion Celebration hosted by the New Jersey State Library! On November 19th, at the SAVE THE DATE: PAT TUMULTY HONORED AS LIBRARY CHAMPION You are cordially invited to attend the first-ever Library Champion Celebration hosted by the New Jersey State Library! On November 19th, at the Hamilton Manor, in Hamilton, NJ, the New Jersey State Library will recognize our New Jersey Library Champions-actions and advocacy that support library services in New Jersey. The ...Continue Reading

The New Jersey State Library and local libraries from across the state have partnered with the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority to encourage readers to \x93Read Like a Library Champion\x94 during their local library\x92s Summer Reading Program by giving them the opportunity to win tickets to IZOD Center events by logging in the books they read at at www.njlibrarychampions.org. Discount tickets for select IZOD Center family shows are also available at www.IZODcenter.com, by using the code LIBRARY. Congratula ...Continue Reading