SJRLC Connections

New Classes for the Summer

SJRLC is pleased to announce new workshop additions to the Summer Continuing Education Schedule.  More classes coming soon!  (For complete offerings, please see www.sjrlc.org/ce.)

• June 18: Ensuring Ready Reference Success: Reference Interview Skills for Library Paraprofessionals/Library Assistants.  Learn how to Successfully exhibit and use the "model reference behaviors "that help you elicit the patron's real question - quickly!" For complete details and registration form, click here
  
  
• July 22: Basic Book Repair: Get more life out of your books!   Learn techniques to do simple, effective repairs that will help keep your books looking better and circulating longer! For complete details and registration form, click here.
  
  
• August 7: Advanced Book Repair: More secrets to keeping your books in circulating condition! Learn the fundamentals of proper repair, and work with repair materials that will not harm your books.  For complete details and registration form, click here.

JerseyCat Splash Screen and Book Review Features Webinars

June Dates for Splash Screen and Book Review Features Webinars

Create Your Library's Splash Screen and Enable Book Reviews webinars will be held on the following dates in June:

 

 

• June 3 - 11 a.m. - 12:00 Noon - Click here to register 
• June 11 - 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Click here to register 
• June 19 - 11 a.m. - 12 Noon - Click here to register  

 

Learn how to set up a splash screen that includes your library's activities calendar and other special messages. You will receive confirmation of your registration and reminder e-mails as the date approaches.

If you have any questions, please contact Scherelene Schatz sschatz@njstatelib.org or call 609-278-2640, Extension 158.

NEW!! RLC Discount Offer from Vault (career information)

The Regional Library Cooperatives' Discount Offers are available for your review on 

our website (http://www.sjrlc.org/discounts/

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We have rolling postings as offers are updated. Take a moment please to review two newly discounted resources for public, academic and school libraries from career information publisher Vault. Order deadline: 8/1/08.

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Vault Online Career Library
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Vault High School

Online Career and College Search Library

Once you've reviewed the 20% discount offer, please contact directly:

Nina Lindia, Sr. Account Executive

nlindia@vault.com (212) 366-4212 x244

Scope note from vendor:

"The Vault Career Library is the world's most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of guidebooks on career subjects.  Vault's database, the Online Career Library, is the world`s leading source of insider career information. With 1000+ institutional subscribers, it provides comprehensive career guidance: industry and occupational information; company research; job search tips, sample resumes & cover letters; community message boards; insider information on colleges and universities. Contact them and see first-hand why New York Magazine says Vault is".the next best thing to taking a job out for a test drive."

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See http://www.sjrlc.org/discounts/

  for all offers including these just posted offers...

• AP Images
• ABC-Clio
  
• Bowker
  
• Britannica
  
• EBSCOHOST (Includes free NoveList and Novelist K8 access )
• Facts on File
  
• Marshall Cavendish Digital
  
• Motor
  
• H.W. Wilson
  
• World Book

Stay tuned for more discounts offers coming very soon!

Get your library on our NJ Consumer Health website

Posted on behalf of Connie Paul, CJRLC Executive Director ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Libraries,

We are creating a website at www.njhealthnavigator.com and we need your help! The website will help people find a library near them that might answer their  health-related questions. Sixty libraries have responded so far (and most are on the map!) but we want every relevant library in the state to be included! (If you already did this, thank you!

Please answer the survey questions so we can construct our website and make your library information available. This survey (5-10 minutes!)  is for any library (public, academic, hospital, or other,) that can provide health information to the public.

The survey can be found at http://www.njha-surveys.com/wsb.dll/MBrewer/Library.htm

Thank you!

Connie

Connie Paul Executive Director, Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative

Velocity Express (CDL) - last day for school delivery

Please be advised that the last day for school delivery will be Friday, June 20th.

Delivery will resume again on Monday, September 8th.

Thank you.

Sandi Augello

South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative

10 Foster Avenue, Suite F-3

Gibbsboro, NJ 08026

Tel. (856) 346-1222

Fax (856) 346-2839

Handouts from "Taking Care of Business" workshop

Handouts from today's "Taking Care of Business Workshop" are available at: www.sjrlc.org/spice/tcb

 

NJKI Update

Via Kathi Peiffer on the NJPUB Libs listserv

To the New Jersey library community:

NOTE: You may have seen the email sent on Friday, May 2 to VALE libraries regarding NJKI. This email was based upon a meeting that Norma Blake and I had with Judy Cohn, Marianne Gaunt and Anne Ciliberti the prior day. VALE libraries urgently needed information on how to proceed for FY09 and, with the NJKI funding stream still being honed, we all decided that it would be best for these libraries to prepare for the worst case scenario in terms of Academic Search Premier.

That being said, the meeting held on April 22 and facilitated by the Governor’s Office did not yield any commitment of funding for the additional $1 million needed to return NJKI to its previous funding level. In addition, those present at the meeting from the Dept. of Labor, the Economic Development Authority and the Governor’s Office made two points very clear-first, getting continuing or additional economic development funding will be dependent upon NJKI resources being available remotely; and second, that databases of use to the general business community such as RefUSA and Academic Search Premier* would be considered more favorably than those directed toward niche markets.

At this time $2 million remains in the state budget for NJKI. We will not know for certain that we have those funds until the budget is approved. Angie Maguire of the Office of Economic Growth (OEG) has agreed to help us acquire US EDA federal funds or to arrange a demonstration for state agencies serving workforce development and small businesses. The Governor has told the State Librarian that along with OEG his office will reach out to Pharma to try to add funds to NJKI.

Two clarifications Norma and I would like to make regarding recent information being circulated regarding NJKI: 

1. We did not knowingly contract for $3 million with a $2 million budget. We had to continue multiyear, existing contracts; and

2. We did not duplicate what higher education does.  Higher Education took individual contracts for their target audiences when NJKI was shut off.  We also contract with some of the same vendors, but for different products.   

*Academic libraries, please note that Academic Search Premier may be offered remotely to everyone through Jersey Clicks, but that there is no money outside of NJKI to again purchase or contract specifically for academic institutions.

GREENFILE: New Ebsco database available on Jersey Clicks

FROM:Kathleen Moeller-Peiffer, Associate State Librarian for Library Development, New Jersey State Library

 

Recently EBSCO Publishing announced the release of GreenFILE, a bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns. GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. 

 

This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well. 

 

Effective today this database is available via Jersey Clicks by clicking on "custom search", then choosing Ebsco GreenFILE under "databases A-Z". At this time Library Development Bureau staff expect that GreenFILE will be available for federated searching the week of May 19th.

Workshop: 12 Magic Computer Phrases that Library Personnel Need to Know in Spanish

South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative Presents

12 Magic Computer Phrases that Library Personnel Need to Know in Spanish
Led by Susana Baumann, LCSWorldwide Language and Cultural Services

COMPLETE DETAILS AND REGISTRATION AT: http://www.sjrlc.org/spice/2008_04/spanish_print_2008_05.PDF

WHEN: Friday, June 20, 2008, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm  (9:30 coffee)
COST:  $40  (Lunch Included)
WHERE: Vineland Public Library 1058 East Landis Avenue, Vineland, NJ 08360
DIRECTIONS: www.vineland.lib.nj.us/directions.html

Based on the popular "12 Magic Phrases Library Personnel Need to Know in Spanish," this interactive, fun yet powerful workshop prepare local library staff with knowledge and resources to meet the technology needs of Spanish speakers in their communities.

WHO NEEDS THIS WORKSHOP?  Library staff who need:

    * Some basic customer service phrases to handle language barriers with Latino patrons using computers.
    * To understand the cultural aspects of Latinos and the use of technology.
    * Tools and strategies to overcome language barriers beyond basic Spanish phrases.

VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

The class is designed for library personnel with little or no prior Spanish knowledge. The Communicative Approach is based on placing new vocabulary and grammar in context, always giving priority to the development of a conversational level.

In addition, the instructor aids her work with "cheat cards" distributed among participants, who can use them daily at the library, or present to patrons as an interaction tool.

    --- Earn 5 CEU Credits for this class ---

COMPLETE DETAILS AND REGISTRATION AT: http://www.sjrlc.org/spice/2008_04/spanish_print_2008_05.PDF

New Tech Talk: New Classes May

New Class for May

May 29:       

Tech Talk: Practically Web 2.0: Practical demonstrations of Social Software Technology:

This two hour tech talk will explain the basic concepts of many web 2.0 tools and demonstrate how you can practically use them to manage information and time more efficiently.

Click here for complete details and registration form