February 1st 2010
Dear Library Director, NJSL is applying for funding under the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) to expand resources to the unemployed and underemployed as well as helping small business creation and growth through the public libraries of New Jersey. Through receipt of this grant, NJSL hopes to be able to provide all public libraries access to increased broadband, PCs, staff training and funding for libraries to present programs to support economic recovery in New Jersey. OUR RECEIPT OF THE GRANT, AS WE ...Continue Reading
February 1st 2010
Hello all, Jan Anderson from Baker and Taylor (Bibliostat) will be hosting a free webinar tomorrow morning on Bibliostat Collect, the internet application to collect data for Public Library Survey / Per Capita State Aid Form for DY2009 http://collect.btol.com. Please join the webinar directly. No registration is required. He will demonstrate: 1. How to use the Bibliostat Collect to submit the annual survey 2. Its new and revised features Date & Time: Tuesday, February 2, 10:30am Eastern Duration: The webinar ...Continue Reading
February 1st 2010
Registration for the New Jersey State Library\x92s 2010 New Directors\x92 Orientation will close on Monday, February 8th. The workshop will be held on February 17 & 24, 2010 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm each day. This is a two-day orientation workshop for new public library directors. Registrants must attend BOTH days. The workshop will concentrate on the following areas: Library Finance and State Aid, Budgeting, Library Law, Policy and Procedure Creation and Maintenance, Library Marketing, Library Boards and more. Ther ...Continue Reading
January 29th 2010
The U.S. Department of Labor would like to share information with the library community on a new initiative developed by the department. The URLs are: www.dol.gov/challenge and http://dolchallenge.ideascale.com. These sites were created as part of a competition encouraging entrepreneurs and organizations to help the department develop an online inventory by submitting job search and career advancement tools. The voting period for the top-rated tools has ended. However, by going to the second site, you and your customer ...Continue Reading
January 29th 2010
The New Jersey Library Trustee Association is sponsoring "Beyond Library Law: An Overview of New Jersey Law for Library Boards and County Library Commissions. The workshop will be held on March 20, 2010 at the East Brunswick Public Library. Registration begins at 9:30; the program will run from 10-12:30; and from 12:30-2 lunch will be served and there will be an update on NJ Library Legislation. The guest speaker will be Beth Hinsdale-Piller, Esq., an attorney and contributing author to the 2009 NJ Local Government ...Continue Reading
January 28th 2010
The New Jersey Library Trustee Association is sponsoring "Beyond Library Law: An Overview of New Jersey Law for Library Boards and County Library Commissions. The workshop will be held on March 20, 2010 at the East Brunswick Public Library. Registration begins at 9:30; the program will run from 10-12:30; and from 12:30-2 lunch will be served and there will be an update on NJ Library Legislation. The guest speaker will be Beth Hinsdale-Piller, Esq., an attorney and contributing author to the 2009 NJ Local Government ...Continue Reading
January 28th 2010
New Jersey State Library to Provide Evanced Solutions Summer Reader to all NJ Public Libraries The New Jersey State Library is very happy to announce that it has licensed software for three years from Evanced Solutions (http://www.evancedsolutions.com) to provide all NJ public libraries with free access to Evanced Solutions \x93Summer Reader\x94 online summer reading registration software. This means that if you choose to use this online program, provided by the NJ State Library at no cost to you, you and your library ...Continue Reading
January 27th 2010
Hello all, The Public Library Survey for DY2009 is now open and can be accessed at http://collect.btol.com/. (This is a different URL from previous years). Please note that the survey website has been revised and Jan Anderson from Baker and Taylor (Bibliostat) will be hosting free webinars on Bibliostat Collect, the internet application to collect data for Public Library Survey / Per Capita State Aid Form. Please join the webinar directly. No registration is required. He will demonstrate: 1. How to use the Bibliostat ...Continue Reading
January 25th 2010
Hello all, The Public Library Survey for DY2009 is now open and can be accessed at http://collect.btol.com/. (This is a different URL from previous years). Login information is the same as previous year. In case you do not have the login information, please request it and I will send it to you. 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. The definitions for data elements are also provided by IMLS at http://harvester ...Continue Reading
January 25th 2010
Hi, All. About 33% of the libraries (99) answered the survey. Percentages are as follows: "Do Not Change" - 18% "Reduce" - 27% "Eliminate" - 51% For those who answered "Other" (24%), all but 4 either agreed with one of the other choices or agreed with a slight variance. I counted these answers in the category closest to their answer. Four of the answers were either unclear as to their intent, or offered no opinion. FYI: If the review committee recommends that the paid print ...Continue Reading
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