SJRLC Connections

TWO EBSCOHOST WORKSHOPS

TWO EBSCOHOST WORKSHOPS

JUNE 2 2009 @ the Camden County Library

• EbscoHost Advanced Searching : 10:00-Noon
• Customizing EbscoHost with Ebsco Admin: 1:00-3:00

Click the above links for complete details and registration

Recruiting and Mentoring A Diverse Workforce for New Jersey’s Libraries

Recruiting and Mentoring A Diverse Workforce for New Jersey’s Libraries

Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 9-12:30
Monroe Township Public Library
4 Municipal Plaza, Monroe Township 08831

To provide the best service to New Jersey’s increasingly diverse population, the state’s public libraries can benefit from professionals who reflect their communities.  Learn how to help recruit and mentor such a workforce for your library. 

Workshops include:

• Recruiting a Diverse Workforce: A Success Story
• Mentoring 101
• Recruitment and Mentoring Tips (panel discussion) with special attention to the African-American, Latino, and ADA populations

Presenters include: 

• Nicole Cooke, President and Co-Founder of the Trenton Chapter of the Black Caucus of ALA;
• Pat Tumulty, President of NJLA;
• Maria Baratta, Assistant Director of the New Jersey State Library Braille and Talking Book Center;
• Mario Gonzalez, Director of Passaic Public Library and Executive Board Member of the American Library Association

To Register:   https://secure.thriva.com/Reg/Form.aspx?IDTD=1607587&IDRPH=1659115
Date & Time:  Wednesday, June 10, 9:00—12:30
Directions:      http://www.monroetwplibrary.org/directions.htm
Cost:               Free       

Information:      Maryanne Knutson @ 609-278-2640, ext. 136 or mknutson@njstatelib.org

Co-Sponsored by the Urban Libraries Section of the New Jersey Library Association and the New Jersey State Library’s 2006 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarians Grant

How to undergrads do research? Check out this video

Check out this Project Informational Literacy video in which they present their findings on undergraduate research habits.

SJRLC Spring Membership Meeting and Program

South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative presents:
2009 Spring Membership Program & Meeting

Your library’s guide to surviving and thriving in the 21st century.
 

Speaker, Anita Dukor President of Duckor & Associates Thursday, June 4, 2009, Noon - 4:00  (lunch at Noon-1) Pine Hill Golf Club 500 West Branch Ave., Pine Hill, NJ 08021 Directions: www.sjrlc.org/directions/pinehill

 
CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION FORM
 
Print version of flyer

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ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: ANITA S. DUCKOR, President of the management consulting firm Duckor & Associates, Anita was President of the Minneapolis Public Library Board of Trustees as well as a member from 2001 to 2007. She also recently served as interim Executive Director of the Friends of MPL. During her years as Chair of the corporate capital committee, the capital campaign exceeded its $15 million goal to build a new central library in downtown Minneapolis. Additionally, Anita has more than thirty years of corporate and business experience in strategy formation and organizational planning.

COMMUNITY BASED ADVOCACY Minneapolis Public Library’s merger with Hennepin County Library last January was precipitated by a financial crisis that crippled MPL and was years in the making. Anita shares what was missing in their advocacy efforts and how WE can profit from the lessons learned.

Building off of insights from OCLC's recent report, "From Awareness to Funding", Anita will help your library to bridge the gap between strategic planning and funding. As a result of this presentation you will:

• Use stakeholder relations to market, promote and sell your library.
• Solicit and engage proactive and highly effective library champions who represent cross-sectional segments of your community.
• Build on ongoing community support to survive in the 21st century

JOIN US for a free lunch…and invite your Board and Friends for a topnotch development program! Attendance contributes to State CE Requirements for public library trustees & staff and CEU’s for school librarians.

LEARN ABOUT SJRLC’s New Annual Plan… Hear what’s happening with others around the region and state.

AGENDA
Noon – 1:00	Lunch
1:00 – 4:00	Presentations, Program and Meeting

CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION FORM

Print version of flyer

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Update on access to Star-Ledger

TO: All members of the New Jersey Library Network FROM: Kathleen Moeller-Peiffer, Associate State Librarian for Library Development DATE: April 16, 2009

As described in an email message sent to all available list servs in October 2008, the Star-Ledger will no longer be available via the New Jersey State Library's statewide license for Gale-Cengage Custom Newspapers. After October 31, 2009, access will be provided exclusively by Newsbank.

At a meeting on April 8, 2009 of the State Library's New Jersey Knowledge Initiative Task Force and Database Advisory Committee, the members present agreed that given the proposed FY10 budget for the State Library a statewide license to the Star-Ledger would be prohibitively expensive and would displace other valuable online resources.

Therefore, I will be contacting Newsbank on April 17, 2009 to let their representative know that the State Library will not be licensing this resource through their company in the coming year. Newsbank has been waiting for this decision before re-approaching individual libraries regarding licensing, so I would expect their local representatives to begin contacting libraries throughout the state in the very near future.

Information regarding online resources that will continue to be licensed for all members of the New Jersey Library Network by the State Library for FY10 will be available on or before May 15, 2009.

ARRA Update from the State Library

News from Tina Keresztury, Associate State Librarian, RE: ARRA Update Date: April 14, 2009:

I wanted to give another update on what the State Library is doing with regard to the Recovery Act funding. This week, we are more fully developing our federal legislative agenda which was previously posted on our online newsletter which can be found on our Web site. State Librarian Norma Blake will be taking these proposals to Washington at the end of the month for discussions with our federal legislators. She will be part of a congressional delegation from Thomas Edison State College visiting Washington specifically to discuss the Recovery Act.

Our joint recovery committee with NJLA representatives continues to meet and follow every communication we receive from ALA and COSLA, and attend Webinars and sit in on conference calls about ARRA. We also check the recovery sites daily both in the state and nationally and follow up on every potential lead for funding. With NJLA, we are setting up meetings also with state legislators to discuss ARRA as we also meet on the Governor's proposed budget.

Rob Zangara will be forming a broadband task force to develop a proposal with NJ Edge for possible broadband funding. Details will be coming on that project soon. Rob will be inviting people to join this important task force.

We are also in the process of setting up meetings with the State Department of Labor, and the district offices of the US Small Business Administration and the US Economic Development Administration to pursue funding opportunities and partnerships for libraries.

Please contact me anytime with questions or with your success stories if your library receives ARRA funding from any source. I can be contacted at tkeresztury@njstatelib.org at any time.

Workshop: CUSTOMER SERVICE FUNDAMENTALS

The South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative Presents
CUSTOMER SERVICE FUNDAMENTALS

Led by Luisa Paster, Princeton Public Library

May 28, 2009,  9:30 AM - 4:30 PM  (9:00 coffee)
Willingboro Public Library    (Map/Directions)
Cost: $40. Lunch is included.

REGISTRATION: http://tinyurl.com/csfundamentals 

 

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 Your daily interactions with customers are the lifeblood of the library!

In this workshop, we will discuss five key principles of communication and how they relate to staff/patron interactions, and we will define customer service and the behaviors that boost it from good to exceptional.

In a variety of fun activities, participants will practice: handling difficult situations, using four practical steps for saying "no", active listening, and overcoming defensiveness. In addition to supporting individual service skills, we will discuss how managers can promote good service throughout the library by creating an institutional service attitude and ethic.

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Describe good customer service
• Apply behaviors that ensure good service
• Apply strategies for coping with difficult situations
• Promote customer service to your staff <
• Identify good organizational customer service practices

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REGISTER AT: http://tinyurl.com/csfundamentals 

Free commercials and a prize valued at $5,000 is waiting for your library!

News from Nancy Dowd, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, New Jersey State Library

Free commercials and a prize valued at $5,000 is waiting for your library!

The deadline for the statewide digital story contest is almost here! Tell your library¹s story and win a visit from StoryCorps (donated by NoveList and valued at $5000), an HD video camera or a Flip camera! But you must hurry because the deadline is June 1! A webinar on how to use PhotoStory 3 is scheduled on May 4.

The two commercials the State Library produced that are running on NJN, Comcast and public access stations are available to post to your library's Website.

Details for the contest and links for the commercial are on the NJSL Marketing Blog: http://tinyurl.com/njslmarketing

Pres4Lib2009: Registration now Open!

Pres4Lib2009: A Presentation Camp for Speakers/Trainers

June 12, 2009, 9-5
Princeton Public Library

Register at: http://tinyurl.com/pres4lib2009
Wiki with complete details: http://pres4lib.pbwiki.com

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Looking to : 

• hone your presentation skills ?
• become a better speaker ?
• develop your training/presenting toolkit? 

If so, you will not want to miss the inaugural Pres4Lib Camp on June 12, 2009 in Princeton, NJ.

The camp is a true grass-roots collaborative effort, being  co-sponsored by SJRLC, CJRLC and the Princeton Public Library  (and anybody else that wants to help!)  
 
Pres4Lib2009 is a presentation camp and will be conducted as an unconference. This will be a great opportunity for presenters and trainers (and those interested in presenting and training) in the library community to network and share their tips, technologies, best practices, and experiences.Highlights of the day will include two rounds of lightning talks, three breakout sessions, and a chance to witness Battle Decks in action. 

A Pres4Lib2009 wiki (http://pres4lib.pbwiki.com ) has been established to answer questions about the camp, allow for collaboration and suggestions prior to the day and to record the happenings on the actual day.

Registration is limited and the cost is free, except for a nominal $25 charge to cover the cost of food (breakfast, lunch and snacks). The day will culminate with an optional dinner outing to The Triumph Brewing Company, a local favorite in Princeton.

Don't delay and register today at http://tinyurl.com/pres4lib2009

Rutgers SCILS Name Change

The following is the official announcement of the actions of the Board of Governors of Rutgers University. Ashanti Alvarez, director of public communications at the School of Communication and Information, may be contacted at 732-932-7500, ext. 8012, or at ashantii@rutgers.edu.

See also, Library Journal's Article, Rutgers Board of Governors Approves Name Change Dropping Word "Library"


NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – The Board of Governors of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, today approved a resolution changing the name of the university’s School of Communication, Information and Library Studies to the School of Communication and Information. The change is effective July 1. The school’s faculty had earlier approved the name change.

"Communication and information are part of every academic discipline in the school,” said Dean Jorge Reina Schement. “They weave through all our academic programs and faculty research – including our library studies programs. Librarians, in fact, are at the forefront of all the current debates about information and how it should be communicated.

Known as the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies since 1982, the School of Communication and Information will continue to house three of Rutgers’ academic departments: communication, journalism and media studies, and library and information science.

The names of the school’s academic programs remain unchanged. The school offers three undergraduate programs in journalism and media studies; communication; and information technology and informatics. There are also three graduate programs: a Ph.D. in communication, information and library studies; a master of communication and information studies; and a master of library and information science. The school also offers continuing education to working professionals through its Professional Development Studies Program.

“This change will help the residents of New Jersey and the nation’s academic community better understand the strengths at Rutgers’ School of Communication and Information,” said Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick. “The new name also communicates the school’s mission and values at the very broadest level of scholarship and inquiry. This clarity is pivotal at a time when the fields of communication and information are central to societal changes occurring as we speak.”

The school’s faculty voted in favor of the name change Feb. 4 at a regularly scheduled faculty meeting. The tally was 30-10, with one abstention. The vote followed months of discussions within the school and among members of the Rutgers University community dating back to the summer of 2008.

Contact: Ashanti Alvarez
732-932-7500, ext. 8012
E-mail: ashanti@rutgers.edu