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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:
Presenters include:
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
Check out this Project Informational Literacy video in which they present their findings on undergraduate research habits.
South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative presents:

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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 |
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
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.
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:
--- Earn 6
Professional Development Hours for attending this program ---
REGISTER AT: http://tinyurl.com/csfundamentals
News from Nancy Dowd, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, New Jersey State 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
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
Peter Bromberg is the Assistant Director for the The South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative (SJRLC), a multi-type library membership organization including over 600 academic, institutional, public, school, and special libraries in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem Counties. Visit our homepage at: http://www.sjrlc.org
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