SJRLC Connections

THREATS TO NEW JERSEY LIBRARIES - UPDATED 3/23

As many of you know, Governor's Christie's budget proposes cuts to the following budget lines: Library Network Aid, Per Capita Library Aid, Virtual Library.  Additionally, the budget proposes moving the State Library under the auspices of Rutgers University, and there is a bill pending (A2555) to eliminate the 1/3 of a mil minimum funding for municipal libraries. For more details on these threats see NJLA's Legislative Alert.

We are working with the library community to develop an advocacy plan to address these threats. As our advocacy efforts develop we will be in touch with SJRLC members through our listserv, webpage, blog, and all channels at our disposal.

UPDATED! For now, here are three things you can do:

1. Point supporters to this Capwiz Link: http://capwiz.com/ala/nj/home/ and ask them to contact their state reps and the Governor to fight for funding.  Capwiz makes it EASY!!  Also, you can sign up for legislative alerts (and encourage other to do so too) here:
   http://capwiz.com/ala/nj/lmx/u/?jobid=145361623&queueid=4898333736
    
2. Encourage your friends, family, and customers who support library service to http://www.ilovenjlibraries.org/ so we can continue building our base of support.
    
3. Bookmarks! http://njla.pbworks.com/Library-Champions-Bookmarks and www.bccls.org/buckles/advocacy (tthanks to Heidi Cramer for providing)

FY10 statewide databases

TO: Members of the New Jersey Library Network
FROM: Kathleen Moeller-Peiffer, Associate State Librarian for Library Development
SUBJECT: FY10 statewide databases
DATE: June 9, 2009

Although realizing that nothing is final until the budget has been passed by the State Legislature, at this time it appears that the FY10 budget will not allow the following statewide database licenses to be renewed by the State Library:

• Business Source Premier
• Frost and Sullivan (previously licensed for NJKI business customers)
• Heritage Quest

 The NJ State Library is, whenever possible, transferring database costs to federal and other funding. We will notify everyone when we get the final word regarding our FY10 allocation.
At this time the databases that the State Library plans to continue for statewide access are:

• All current EBSCO database offerings with the exception of Business Source Premier
• Novelist Plus and Novelist Plus K-8  
• Gale Custom Newspapers (minus the Star Ledger after October 31, 2009)
• RefUSA              
• Academic Search Premier for VALE, K-12 & Public Libraries.

Reference USA "US Lifstyles" module no longer available

Reference USA  "US Lifstyles" module no longer available

News from Kathleen Moeller-Peiffer, MSLS, Associate State Librarian for Library Development

Last week the NJ State Library announced to the field that a new module, Lifestyle, would be added to our current RefUSA subscription through June 30, 2009. This decision was based upon the facts that RefUSA has proved to be a very successful component of the NJ Knowledge Initiative program; RefUSA technical support and training  have been exceptional over the past 3 ½ years; and RefUSA was giving the module to all NJ libraries and NJKI customers at no charge through June 30, 2009.

However, it quickly became apparent with comments from both the NJ library field and members of the NJKI Task Force that the information available through this module identified NJ residents, their mailing addresses and their buying habits. While this information is of great interest to organizations who wish to do targeted mailings and marketing, it also reveals a great deal about those residents who are our customers.

Therefore, the NJKI Task Force has advised the State Library to remove this module from the NJKI offerings. We have done so effective February 6, 2009.

On a related note, RefUSA has increased the internal downloading for our basic product from 25 to 50 and the anti-scrapping box that your remote patrons have been accustomed to seeing and entering a code each time they went from page to page has been lifted.

If any questions arise concerning this notice please contact Scherelene Schatz in the Library Development Bureau at 609-278-2640 ext. 158, or sschatz@njstatelib.org.

ReferenceUSA's Lifestyle Module

Thanks to Scherelene Schatz, MLS, NJ State Library for this information

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The New Jersey State Library is pleased to announce that NJ users will now have access to ReferenceUSA's Lifestyle Module. Information about this resource is as follows:

Research consumers based on their lifestyles, hobbies and interests

The lifestyle information is comprised of a multitude of transactional and self-reported sources. Our unique multi-dimensional data sets us apart from other Lifestyle modules, which rely solely on survey data.

This module offers more than 60 behavioral indicators on millions of consumers. So whether your patrons are searching for active adults who golf, or those who collect baseball cards, read books and are up on the Internet, they can find it here.

Search criteria includes:

• Outdoor enthusiasts
• Golfer
• Gardeners
• Investors
• Health and fitness
• Occupation
• Pet owners
• Donors
• And more!

Watch for more information about training sessions for this module in the near future.

If you have any questions, please contact Scherelene Schatz, sschatz@njstatelib.org .

Thank you. Scherelene Schatz, MLS, NJ State Library

NJKI Once Again Available to Library Users

New Jersey State Library 185 West State Street, Trenton NJ 08625

NEWS RELEASE

Gary Cooper, Media Specialist, Marketing 609-278-2640, ext. 108

gcooper@njstatelib.org

For Release: Immediately

Trenton, NJ, August 1, 2008 - With the inclusion of $2 million in the FY '09 state budget, New Jersey small business owners and entrepreneurs can, once again, tap into the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative (NJKI) and access free market research data and analysis, industry news, sales leads and hundreds of thousands of peer-reviewed journals and magazines. The New Jersey State Library's state-funded program is available to New Jersey library card holders through their local library Web site or by going to www.njki.org.

"We are very happy to be able to resume this important resource for our small business community," said Norma Blake, New Jersey State Librarian and Library Journal's Librarian of the Year, who initiated the program in 2005. "This level of funding will allow us to continue to make available the most used and valued general business databases of our customers, such as ReferenceUSA, Academic Search Premier, and Frost and Sullivan marketing reports."

The NJKI Task Force, composed of librarians from many types of libraries, as well as representatives of the government and the business sector, will begin selecting additional business resources to be offered remotely. Later on, if alternate funding sources are found, the NJKI Task Force may supplement NJKI with subsidized information resources, as needed, particularly in the biotechnology fields.

For more information on the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative go to www.njki.org or contact Kathi Moeller-Peiffer, Associate State Librarian, at kpeiffer@njstatelib.org.

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.

Information Session on Scitopia – Integrating Trusted Scientific and Technical Research

Posted on behalf of the New Jersey State Library:

Information Session on Scitopia – Integrating Trusted Scientific and Technical Research


In our ongoing interest in serving the New Jersey business, research and technical community  the NJ State Library is sponsoring an informational session on Scitopia.org.  Scitopia’s mission is to integrate trusted scientific and technical research.  This federated search engine provides access to the digital libraries of 15 professional societies in addition to patents (U.S. and European) and Department of Energy technical reports.  Among the societies are IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its vast array of conference proceedings in addition to its collection of journals.  The APS (American Physical Society) journals including Physical Review and Physical Review Letters etc. are also indexed along with SPIE (Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers), OSA (Optical Society of America) and SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) publications.  Negotiations are underway by IEEE to include other society publications such as ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), ACS (American Chemical Society) and NTIS (National Technical Information Service).  To review, see http://www.scitopia.org/scitopia/

Like all good things, however, there are limitations.  While full-text is provided free-of-charge for patents and government reports, journal and conference proceeding papers have to be purchased via the pay-for-view option unless you are affiliated with an institution that has a subscribed to the specific publication.

Please join us to discuss and to review Scitopia.

When:  March 18, 2008,1:30-3:30
Speaker:  Ruth Wolfish, IEEE Client Services Manager
Where:  NJ Hospital Association Conference Center, 760 Alexander Road, Princeton, NJ  08543

For directions: http://www.njha.com/conferencecntr/html/mc.directions.aspx

Space is limited, so please register at the New Jersey State Library website for this free event: http://www.njstatelib.org/LDB/Events/ 

NJKI Update

Sent on behalf of the NJKI Task Force by Kathleen Peiffer, Associate State Librarian for Library Development

Although we are very sensitive to other cuts being made in the Governor's '09 budget, we thought you would like to know what is happening to the funding for the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative:

Beginning at 5 pm today, Thursday, February 28, 2008, New Jersey Knowledge Initiative vendors will begin a rolling shutdown of the online resources funded by this statewide program. We regret to report that despite numerous visits to legislators, the Governor's office and other state agencies, no bridge funding has been forthcoming to support the database costs through the remainder of this fiscal year.

However, the Governor's budget for FY09 does currently call for a $2 million allotment for NJKI to start July 1, 2008. Your advocacy will continue to be critical throughout the upcoming budget process. The task force will reconvene in the near future to determine the specifics of the next NJKI program. Other funding sources will also continue to be explored to enhance this initiative.

Sincerely,

The NJKI Task Force

Save NJKI--call your Reps--It's easy!

A message from Amy Kearns, CJRLC Program Coordinator on her experience contacting state reps to

I only send these messages after I myself have done these things - seriously, I was finished with the whole process in about 10 minutes.

The best thing to do is to go ahead and click on the link that Kathi provided to find your reps - http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/legsearch.asp

1. On the right-hand side click on the link for MUNICIPALITY (the town you live in) and that takes you the page with the towns listed.
2. Click on the first letter of the town you where you live - (I clicked on the "E" and then chose East Orange from the list of towns starting with "E". I then found that East Orange is in District 34 so I clicked that district. That gives the reps for my district.)

I kept open the page with the message from Kathi (see below) while I dialed each one from the page with the listings.

I said, "It is really important to me that (insert person) co-sponsor A2107."

They ask for your name, phone number and address. I have never been contacted by anyone after doing this if that is a concern of yours. I have never tried to
refuse to give this info, but I'm not sure what would happen if you did. Please just give it, I'm sure it is an important part of this - I wonder if you could
just give your work info if this makes you upset.

When I called Assemblywoman Oliver's office, the man who answered the phone took the info but also requested that I send an email to her. So I went back to the
page and clicked on her info and that opened up her page with a form to contact her. I was able to actually easily choose all three of my reps to contact from that form so I did.

As for the subject - LIBRARIES is a topic - so I chose that one. Then I filled-in the form and wrote "I would like you to please co-sponsor A2107. It is really important to me." And then I hit send.

Finally, I sent an email to tkeresztury[AT]njstatelib.org as Kathi asked to tell her what I did.

Seriously, it took me less time to do everything than it took for me to write this up! I only do this to let you know what the ACTUAL, EXACT steps are to this and to assure you that there is nothing to it! The people who answered the phones were very, very nice (one even wished me to feel better b/c I am sick and you can hear it in my voice)!

Thanks,
Amy
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MESSAGE FROM KATHI PEIFFER, NEW JERSEY STATE LIBRARY

ATTENTION: ALL ACADEMIC, PUBLIC AND SCHOOL LIBRARIANS – PLEASE ACT NOW ON A2107 TO RESTORE FUNDING TO THE NJKI

A2107, sponsored by Assemblyman Reed Gusciora, District 15 (Mercer County) has been introduced to restore funding for the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative.

A companion bill will be introduced by Senator Stephen Sweeney, District 3 (Salem, Cumberland, and Gloucester Counties).

Please contact your two assembly representatives now to ask them to co-sponsor A2107. It is important to have as many sponsors as possible to this bill. To find contact information for your elected officials go to http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/legsearch.asp.

Please send an email to tkeresztury@njstatelib.org when you have contacted your Assembly representative so that the State Library can keep track of districts contacted.

If you are in Assemblyman Gusciora’s or Senator Sweeney’s district, please call the district office and thank them for introducing this legislation.

• Assemblyman Gusciora’s Office – 609-292-0500
• Senator Sweeney’s Office – 856-251-9801

As soon as we know the bill number for the Senate bill, we will let everyone know.

Thank you for your help today!

NJKI Update

From the New Jersey State Librarian: Update on NJKI Funding

The State of New Jersey budget for FY08 will provide $2 million to continue the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative. This is one million dollars less than is needed to continue the program at its current level.

The intent of the State Library and the NJKI Task Force is to continue all NJKI databases for as long as the $2 million will last, which we expect to be until February 28, 2008, assuming vendor/publisher agreement.

Thank you to everyone who contacted legislators and state officials to advocate for the NJKI to continue to be funded. We delivered the online letter of support to the State House as budget negotiations and hearings progressed. The State Library and the Task Force will continue to pursue all available avenues and options to keep these resources, which are so essential to our entrepreneurial businesses, as well as our academic community and public library customers. We wish to thank all of you who came out on short notice, to help on this last minute push to restore $1 million to NJKI: Pat Tumulty, Cheryl O'Connor, Marianne Gaunt, Karen Hyman, and Peter Bromberg for their testimony at the Assembly budget hearings.

From the moment we heard the money was taken out, during three very long, hectic days, State Library staff took every possible approach:

1. Listservs: NJLA, regions, 3 consortia, VALE, NJASL, YA and children's, Pub Lib and NJSL Direct
2. Gave petitions of 9 pages of business persons to the budget oversight committee and the 4 listed on the resolutions
3. Coordinated two days of testimony
4. Called every library in budget committee person's districts, as well as other individual librarians
5. Discussed with Greenwald, Cryan, Oates and many others
6. Got the message to the head of the academic President's Council
7. Called every VALE library including every county college
8. Contacted the Development Council, NJAC, the Tech Council, Biotech, NJBIA, Federal of Businesses, the League, EDA, Mercer Chamber, and the Small Business Development Certer
9. Talked to individual business owners, governing officials and economic development councils at the NJAC conference

We are already at work developing our strategy for the fall to get this funding back. Please stay tuned, share this information with your colleagues, and  gear up to participate in advocacy for NJKI.

Norma Blake, State Librarian
Kathleen Moeller-Peiffer, Associate State Librarian for Library Development
Susan Kaplan, Manager of the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative