SJRLC Connections

Gale/Library Media Connection TEAMS Award Announcement

Teachers And Media Specialists Influencing Student Achievement

The Gale/Library Media Connection TEAMS Award recognizes and encourages the critical collaboration between the teacher and media specialist to promote learning and increase student achievement.

Three winners will receive: $2,500 (U.S.) cash award; Gale products (approximate value $500 U.S.); a one-year subscription to Library Media Connection; and Educator's Professional Bookshelf (approximate value $500 U.S.) from Linworth Publishing.

http://www.galeschools.com/TEAMS/

 

Garden State Book Award Winners

The Children's Services Section of the New Jersey Library Association announces the following recipients of the 2008 Garden State Children's Book Award:

EASY-TO-READ BOOK

ONE NOSY PUP
by Carol Wallace, illustrated by Steve Bjvrkman

EASY-TO-READ SERIES BOOK

HENRY AND MUDGE AND THE GREAT GRANDPAS
by Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Sugie Stevenson

FICTION, GRADES 2 - 5

LUNCH MONEY
by Andrew Clements, illustrations by Brian Selznick

NON-FICTION, GRADES 2 - 5

RUNNY BABBIT: A BILLY SOOK
by Shel Silverstein

The Garden State Children's Book Awards were established in 1977 in order to give recognition to books for elementary grade readers. The nominees are selected
by a committee of the Children's Services Section of the New Jersey Library Association on the basis of literary merit; the winners are chosen by popularity
with readers. A three-year lapse from the original publication date is allowed in order to determine popularity.

The awards are given in three categories, with the option of one additional series category: a work specifically designated as Easy-To-Read by the publisher; a work of fiction for grades 2 - 5; a work of non-fiction for grades 2 - 5. Awards, presented annually at the NJLA spring conference, are given to both the author and the illustrator.

This year's conference will be held at the Ocean Place Conference Center in Long Branch, from April 29-May 1 with the awards presentation luncheon on May 1.

For further information, visit the NJLA website at www.njla.org, or contact Sandy Holtz, Chair, Garden State Childrens Book Awards Committee, by phone at
973-762-1622 x5013 or email at sholtz[at]maplewoodlibrary.org.

Garden State Teen Book Award winners

Courtesy of Kimberly L. Paone,  Supervisor, Adult/Teen Services,  Elizabeth Public Library

The votes are in (and counted) and I'm happy to announce this year's Garden State Teen Book Award winners:

Fiction, Grades 6-8
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
[runners-up: Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan]

Fiction, Grades 9-12
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
[runners-up: My Sister's Keeper by Jodie Picoult and Peeps by Scott Westerfeld]

Nonfiction, Grades 6-12
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
[runners-up: Red Hot Salsa by Lori Marie Carlson, ed. and Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti]

This year, there were 805 votes total, from 61 participating school and public libraries.  Thanks to all of you that contributed votes on behalf of your students!  The NJLA YA section is currently working hard to put together the 2008 ballot, so you can look for that at NJLA.   

Enthusiastic Reader Award

The New Jersey Reading Association (NJRA) and the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL) are co-sponsoring the NJ Enthusiastic Reader Award.

Nominations are due Feb. 1.  Nomination form is available on NJASL website at http://www.njasl.org/documents/EnthusiasticReader2008.doc.  This is your opportunity to recognize your enthusiastic readers.

Congrats to Tom Ayars, Cumberland County Library

Congratulations to Tom Ayars, Cumberland County Library, who was recently received the 2007 Documents Association of New Jersey (DANJ) Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Government Documents Paper/Project  for his paper “The Road to the Iraq War: An Annotated Bibliography.” 

The object of the paper was to document as closely as possible, using only official governmental sources, the step by step progression of events leading to the outbreak of the Iraq War on March 19, 2003. The prize, awarded at the May 2007 Rutgers SCILS Commencement, was $300. The paper will be included on the DANJ web page (http://www.danj.org).

DANJ created the annual award in 2001 to be given to the student who creates the “best” paper/project in the Government Documents class each fall at the Rutgers School of Communications, Information, and Library Science (SCILS). Some of the factors considered in the selection are intellectual content, organization, and usefulness to the profession.

 

 

Congratulations!

Congratulations to all those who earned NJLA Awards at the April conference in Long Branch! 

The links below lead to the list of awards and their winners, as well as photos of the ceremony.

2007 NJLA Honors & Awards recipients

http://www.njla.org/honorsawards/library/2007/

Photos of 2007 NJLA Honors & Awards presentations

http://www.flickr.com/photos/njla

Linda Devlin, LJ Mover and Shaker

You probably haven’t received it in the mail, so watch for your March 15 issue of Library Journal with the Movers and Shakers issue because our own Linda Devlin, recently named Director of the Camden County Library System, has been named one of 50 national “Movers and Shakers” by Library Journal.  Linda is recognized for her vision and zest for creative problem-solving:

Confronted with the possibility that the library might have to close for maintenance, Devlin's solution for keeping up service was to open Shelf Life, a small, retail-style branch inside a mall. Peter Bromberg of South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative says, “Linda laid out her vision to her colleagues and recruited them to start the major work involved in opening a small branch library.” It opened six weeks later, attracting mall customers who had never used the library. Though Shelf Life has since closed because the mall is being demolished, Devlin says it proved that retail partnerships can work; she looks forward to similar collaborations in the future.

Linda is among  three graduates of the NJ Academy of Library Leadership chosen as national  movers and shakers this year including Linda, Nicole Cooke from Montclair State University and Janie Hermann from Princeton Public Library; also honored from NJ was Trevor Dawes from Princeton, University Libraries.

You can read all about Linda’s choice online at http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6423398.html

Congratulations, Linda.

Karen Hyman, SJRLC Executive Director

Award nomination time!

 

Posted on behalf of Jennifer Konopacki, Chair, NJLA Honors & Awards Committee: 

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It is my pleasure as Chair of the NJLA Honors & Awards Committee to announce that the nomination process has begun for the NJ Library Community to recognize excellence. The nomination forms for all the NJLA Awards (Librarian of the Year, Library Champions, NJLA/NJASL Partnership, Public Relations and Marketing, etc...) can be found on the NJLA website, www.njla.org.   Please click on "Honors & Awards, Celebrating Our Best" for information and forms on all awards.   

The deadline for submission is March 2, 2007. Should you have any questions, please contact me.

Jennifer Konopacki, Warren Township Library – SCLS
email jkonopac@sclsnj.org

Infotubey Awards!

Check out this message from Kathy Dempsey, editor in chief, Computers in Libraries magazine editor, Marketing Library Services newsletter

You Can Enter Information Today's 2007 InfoTubey Awards!

Hi Everyone,

My company is starting a new contest this year to award interesting library promotional work. We're calling it the InfoTubey Awards!  ;-)

We’re looking for videos that librarians have created and posted to YouTube.
Each production must demonstrate creativity, humor, and sincerity in marketing a library, promoting library services, or enhancing a library's value. Videos cannot be more than 5 minutes long.

The deadline is Feb. 14. All submissions will be judged by a panel of distinguished information professionals, who will contact winners in March.

Five InfoTubey Award winners will each receive one free 3-day conference pass to the Computers in Libraries 2007 conference (a $449 value). Awards will be presented at a gala event during the CIL conference on April 17 near Washington, D.C.

The entry form is at https://secure.infotoday.com/InfoTubies/Submit.asp.

You can direct your questions to InfoTubies@infotoday.com.

C'mon, show us what you've done! And feel free to pass this on to your colleagues (unless you're afraid they'll beat you!).

~Kathy

Just to get you in the mood... Here's a little something to whet your youtubey appetite...

Congrats to Audubon PL

Congratulations to the Free Public Library of Audubon which has been awarded the 18th Annual New Jersey Council for Humanities Book Award Collection.   Audubon was one of five libraries chosen to receive the collection this year.  Mr. Jacque Harlow, book committee member and former board member, presented the collection to the library board, staff, and community on November 2, 2006.