PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR STUDENT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL Original films by young adults sought for 7th annual festival, July 21 and 22, 2010 Princeton Public Library is accepting original film submissions for the July 21 and 22, 2010 Princeton Student Film & Video Festival, now in its 7th year. The student filmmakers will be invited to introduce and talk about their work during the popular two-day festival, which is intended for teen and adult audiences. Films are sought from students age ...Continue Reading

Please excuse any cross postings. TD Bank is pleased to share its 2010 TD Bank Summer Reading Program with the local community. The Summer Reading Program is designed to encourage students to continue reading during the summer months. Children who read ten books by the end of the summer will receive $10 from TD Bank to deposit into a new or existing TD Bank Young Saver Account.*  The Summer Reading Program takes place May 3rd – September 30th.  More information is available at www.tdbank.com/summerreading. Th ...Continue Reading

Please excuse the cross-postings. *On-Site Training for Evanced Summer Reader for NJ Public Libraries* For anyone who will be administering the online summer reading program at their library using Evanced Summer Reader. Free sessions are being offered by a trainer from Evanced Solutions at Middlesex County College in the Instructional Resource Center, Room 238 on Wednesday, May 12 and May 13, 2010. This building is located next to the library. The sessions are being offered: (You only have to attend one of the session ...Continue Reading

Please excuse the cross postings In case any of you had trouble with the hyperlink to the GoToMeeting registration site, I’ve included the URL next to the Webinar dates for the Evanced Summer Reader for tomorrow and Thursday. Best, Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Consultant * * * * *New Jersey** - Summer Reader: Basic Config & Setup* * * This Webinar session will cover the basics of setting up, configuring and deploying Summer Reader 2010 for your library or organization.  This session ...Continue Reading

Hi Lore, Since you sent this message out to the listserv, I will respond to the entire list. There isn’t a way to plug in the statistics into Evanced. People will really have to log on and register their books read. If you absolutely find that you cannot use Evanced, you can send me your statistics via e-mail. I will be posting an announcement after the summer reading program with the statistics that I need from libraries not using Evanced. Best, Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Consultant, NJ State Library *From:* Lore ...Continue Reading

I have only recently heard about having to submit stats using Evanced and have a few questions.  We have considered using Evanced for the SRC for several years but everytime we look at it we decide that it does not work for us.  There are many reasons for this including the size of the SRC, the crazy busy nature of the library in the summer, the fact that we use teen volunteers to staff the SRC table, etc.  (We do use Evanced for other program registration so we are very familiar with it and i ...Continue Reading

Hi Everyone, Here is the announcement that I promised all of you for the private Evanced Summer Reader webinars for NJ librarians. I hope you can all attend one of the sessions. The registration is being done by Evanced. Any questions you have about registration should be addressed to them at supp...@evancedsolutions.com. The information about the on-site trainings scheduled for May 12 & 13 will be coming shortly. Best, Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Consultant, NJ State Library * * * * *New Jerse ...Continue Reading

He charges about $1,500.00. We partnered with several preschools in town to offset his costs. These preschools then brought the children to the library for the performance therefore guaranteeing us a built in audience too. Allison *From:* Laura Gruninger [mailto:lgru...@mcl.org] *Sent:* Thursday, April 29, 2010 2:54 PM *To:* njy...@njstatelib.org *Subject:* [njyac] RE: [njyac] FW: Jos\xE9 Luis Orozco Thanks Allison, Do you mind my asking what he charges? Laura Gruninger Mercer County Library System *From:* Allison ...Continue Reading

Hi Laura, If Allison answers this question can you share with me?\xA0 I’ve seen some terrific music books in our system by him, but there aren’t cds with them.\xA0 I wish I had caught his show in Princeton! Kim *From:* Laura Gruninger [mailto:lgru...@mcl.org] *Sent:* Thursday, April 29, 2010 2:54 PM *To:* njy...@njstatelib.org *Subject:* [njyac] RE: [njyac] FW: Jos\xE9 Luis Orozco Thanks Allison, Do you mind my asking what he charges? Laura Gruninger Mercer County Library System *From:* Allison Santos [mailto:ASan ...Continue Reading

Hi Everyone, The Online Conversation Webinars with the State Librarian will not be recorded or a copy of the text kept. That is why a Webinar was offered on April 19 and this one is being offered on May 3. You can find the PowerPoint file or the printable version in pdf that Norma is using in her discussion on the NJ State Library page at www.njstatelib.org. Best, Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Consultant, NJ State Library *From:* Kimberle Madden [mailto:kmad...@oaklyn.k12.nj.us] *Sent:* Thursday, April 29, 2010 2:3 ...Continue Reading