Statistics Needed by NJ State Library from 2010 Summer Reading Program All libraries need to send their statistics to Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Consultant, NJ State Library, srawlins@PROTECTED by October 15, 2010 in 2 ways. Please complete the Survey Monkey survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/878RNK7 to send your program statistics and answer other questions from the Summer Reading Committee concerning the use of the manuals and other incentives. For any library that used Evanced Summer Reader, the rest of ...Continue Reading

Since I have been receiving numerous phone calls regarding registering your trustees for the Trustee Institute on September 25th, I now have approval from the conference venue to extend the registration deadline. Please contact me with any questions. Michele Stricker, Deputy Director Library Development New Jersey State Library 609-278-2640 Ext. 164 mstricker@PROTECTED New Jersey State Library Trustee Institute in partnership with NJ Library Trustee Association and NJ Library Association Saturday, September 25, 20 ...Continue Reading

Nicholas Sherman of Succasunna, who registered 14 books that he read during the summer, was the winner of the NJ State Library\x92s Read Like a NJ Library Champion contest for a children\x92s jersey autographed by NJ Devil\x92s forward and Olympic Silver Medalist Zach Parise. Sherman was presented the jersey at the Roxbury Library, 103 Main St., Succasunna, on Thursday, September 9, at 11:30 a.m., by Jean Scott, Roxbury library director, Gary Cooper, public relations and news media contact for the State Library, and Li ...Continue Reading

In a competition to create the most original and compelling public service announcement promoting libraries to teens, the team of Malcolm Minor and Nicole Thompson, from the Malcolm X. Shabazz High School, Newark, took top honors for their spot \x93Baby Come Back,\x94 which will air on New Jersey Network from September 13 \x96 24 at 7:29 p.m. The well written and produced parody of a Geico Insurance commercial has a library book with eyes trying to convince a young girl to come back to the library. The piece was filmed ...Continue Reading

STORYCORPS TRAILER IS SET UP OUTSIDE LIBRARY The State Library is partnering with NJN and the State Museum to host StoryCorps' Mobile Booth for the next four weeks. We don't have to do anything in particular but we may see an increase if traffic from people curious to know more about the State Library or stopping to use our facilities. If there are any questions regarding the StoryCorps initiative, please feel free to call the PR office. There will be a press event on Thursday. Here are the details about the initiativ ...Continue Reading

New Jersey State Library Trustee Institute In partnership with NJ Library Trustee Association and NJ Library Association \x93Tightrope Walk: Advocate for Funding While Winning Friends & Influencing People\x94 Saturday, September 25, 2010 Marriott Princeton Hotel & Conference Center at Forrestal 100 College Road East, Princeton, NJ 08540 Keynote Speaker: Jimmy Van Bramer, New York City Councilman & former Chief External Affairs Officer / Director, Government & Community Affairs, Queens Library DOWNLOA ...Continue Reading

Dear Library Director/Information Technologist: The New Jersey Office of Information Technology (OIT) has been awarded a Broadband Mapping Grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The New Jersey State Library has been asked to help reach out to libraries with the survey data request below. We feel that it is important that libraries are included in the Broadband map. Please note that this is not part of the New Jersey State Library\x92s NITA Broadband Technology Opportunity Pr ...Continue Reading

ADJUSTMENT OF PUBLIC BIDDING THRESHOLD JULY 1, 2010 News from the Department of Community Affairs Local Government Services: Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:11-3(c) and 18A:18A-3(b), Governor Chris Christie has exercised his authority to adjust the bid thresholds for awarding contracts by various contracting units. Please be advised that the bid threshold for contracting units governed by the Local Public Contracts Law (N.J.S.A. 40A:11-2) and the Public School Contracts Law (N.J.S.A. 18A:18A-2) will rise from $21,000 to $26, ...Continue Reading

Norma Blake, New Jersey State Library staff and Cheryl O\x92Connor, representing the statewide cooperative, have just completed a series of meetings throughout the state to discuss the future of statewide services. The library community requested that the chart describing the status of these statewide services be made available via the web. This information has been posted at the New Jersey State Library\x92s webpage: www.njstatelib.org and will also be available at www.infolink.org. Please contact Kathleen Moeller- ...Continue Reading

Dear Library Director: On June 1, 2010, the State of New Jersey unveiled its newest Website, NJ Parent Link, The Early Childhood, Parenting and Professional Resource Center. http://www.njparentlink.nj.gov NJ Parent Link is a broad based public/private initiative (10 state departments and 14 community/professional partners) supported by the federal Health Resources & Services Administration\x92s, State Early Childhood Comprehensive System (ECCS) Program Grant (2009-2012). New Jersey Department of Health and Senio ...Continue Reading