CJRLC Newsletter Archives

September 2005

C J R L C UPDATE

Region News
&
Notes

Newsletter of Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative, serving Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean Counties

September 2005

2006-01

Listen and Read

CJRLC’s latest pilot project is downloadable audiobooks from OverDrive, available to your patrons from home. This is why we think this project should matter to you:

Our planning committee identified marketing as a priority for libraries to prosper in the next three years. We need to show our customers that we can meet their current information needs and we need to get their attention. This project is just such a marketing tool. Your customers can download popular audiobooks from home to their MP3 players or computers, or they can burn them to a CD. This is news, and will make your students, teacher, and public think of you differently! Now is the time to act.

You will save $500 if you join the initial pilot project by October 1. The cost will be $1500-6000/year depending on your circulation. Almost all of that money will go to adding content and you can help select the titles, get training, and get the records into your catalog if you wish. This is a great project for high schools, for academics and of course, for publics. The contract is on the web, thanks to our partner and project manager INFOLINK. See our web site for more information.

Vendor Discounts

The 2005-2006 online database discount offers, sponsored by the NJ Regional Library Cooperatives, are now available on our Web site. Click on the “Discounts” tab on our home page. Information on the free databases is at the top, with a link to current contact information. All the vendors are listed below, with links to pricing details.

Check out products from two new vendors: NoodleTools (bibliographic software) and Plunkett Research (business). Free trials are offered by both vendors.

CJRLC Executive Board Candidates

This fall members will vote for six CJRLC Executive Board members. Four are currently serving their first terms and are eligible for re-election. They include Karen Black, West Windsor/Plainsboro Schools; Cathy Boss, Jersey Shore University Medical Center; Karen Topham, Brookdale Community College; and Barbara Ruth, Toms River Schools.

Completing two terms on the board in December are John Glace, Ocean County Library, and John Woolf, Holocaust Center and Lay Representative. We thank both of them for their years of service to our members.

Two new candidates are running to replace them. Kathleen Carr, Ocean County Library, is running for Public Library Representative, and Katherine Durante, Executive Director of OceanFirst Foundation, is running for Lay Representative. Voting reps will be receiving ballot information in the mail in September.

Preparing Your Library for Transition:
Planned or Unplanned

Part of a leader’s job is to prepare his/her organization for a change in leadership. Don Crocker and Barbara Miller of the Support Center for Non-profits will lead a short retreat at the Vincentian Center in Plainsboro on September 27 and 28, 2005, to help us think through the process.

The program is part of the leadership series planned by CJRLC and supported by the New Jersey State Library with state and federal LSTA funding. A registration form is on our web site.

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Welcome to new librarians or librarians in new places!

April Bocchino at Atlantic Highlands ES
Danielle Kootman at Middletown Twp. PL
Lorri Ann Wahlgren at Wanamassa ES in Ocean Twp.
Marianne Kerrigan at Brick Twp HS
Melanie Yost at Tinton Falls MS

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Welcome to new member Washington Twp. School District, with Mary Jane Oliva at Sharon ES, Debbie Donoher at Pond Rd. MS and James Shearer at Robbinsville HS.

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Congratulations to Don Smith and the Neptune High School Library which received a $300,000 grant from their board for a new collection.

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Monmouth Librarians Association

The 45th year of this congenial group is off to a great start, with Book Clubs for Everyone, on Oct. 19th at Monmouth Co. Lib - Howell Branch from 10-12. Come for a practical and lively discussion. This workshop is free. Non-members and residents of other counties are welcome, too. To RSVP, call Beth Miller (732-938-2300) or email her.

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CJRLC "We are connected" logo

CJRLC
Executive Board

President
Ingrid Bruck
Long Branch Public Library
Vice President
Cathy Boss
Jersey Shore University Medical Center
Secretary
Karen Black
WW-P Community Middle School
Treasurer
Karen Topham
Brookdale Community College

Members
Marian Bauman
Neptune Township Public Library
April Butler
Lay Representative
John Glace
Ocean County Library
Sheila Goeke
Stuart Country Day School
Karen Klapperstuck
Bradley Beach Public Library
Robert Lackie
Rider University
Laurence McNamara
Mercer County Library
Karen Moench
Monmouth County Library
Barbara Ruth
Toms River Hooper Avenue Elementary School
John Woolf
Lay Representative
Melanie Yost
Brick Township High School

Executive Director and Update Editor
Connie Paul
connie@cjrlc.org

Contributing Editor
Rosalind Reisner
roz@cjrlc.org

(732) 409-6484
1-800-316-2518
Fax: (732) 409-6492

www.cjrlc.org

www.becomealibrarian.org

Early Literacy Station
Available at CJRLC

Get your Pre-K to 3rd elementary teachers and come to CJRLC before October 14 to try out the twenty-one software packages across 7 curricular areas in this stand-alone kid friendly computer. Discounts are available. Call to say you’ll come.

Archives and History
Day at Monmouth
County Library

Archives Week will be celebrated for the 10th consecutive year at Monmouth County Library in Manalapan. Archives and History Day on October 15th will feature displays by 70+ history organizations and a keynote address by Dr. Alex Magoun.

In addition, Elsalyn Palmisano will conduct a presentation on the benefits of the CAPES consulting program for historical societies and libraries and Monmouth County Archivist Gary Saretzky will co-present a workshop on preservation of photographs. For more information, contact Gary Saretzky, gsaretzk@co.
monmouth.nj.us, or 732 308-3772.

New Jersey Library
Appreciation Days

Don’t forget to participate in New Jersey Library Appreciation Days to benefit the Summer Reading program. Barnes & Noble is partnering with The New Jersey State Library and The New Jersey Library Association to help fund all New Jersey libraries’ 2006 summer reading programs.

B&N will donate a percentage of every sale from every customer who presents a book fair voucher at any B&N store in New Jersey on Friday, September 9 and Saturday, September 10. The funds raised from this two day event will benefit the children and young adults who participate in next year’s Summer Reading program. More information is on the NJ State Library Web site, or call Bonnie Kunzel at 609 943-5246.

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Program
Coordinator’s
Notes

Long after we’ve left school, September still feels like a fresh start, time to do all those things we didn’t get to last year. So, consider signing up or sending staff members to some of the following programs!

Because there’s been a steady stream of requests for information about obtaining grants, we’ve arranged a morning at the NJ State Library Funding Center with Teri Taylor. You’ll learn about the extensive collection of grant information at the State Library, and how to search the Foundation Center database. A special opportunity for 16 people on Wednesday, September 21st, from 10:00 - 12:00, and the cost is only $10.00. Call CJRLC to register.

Join us at Princeton PL on Thursday, Sepember 29th, when Janie Hermann will teach the workshop Picture This! Finding and Using Images and Audio on Accunet/AP and EBSCOhost. It’s hands-on and limited to 12 people. You know you need this one! Cost is $10.00 (plus parking). Call CJRLC to register.

The TechGroup is starting up the new season with a program on OverDrive ebooks and downloadable audiobooks on September 21st at 3:30 in the CJRLC lab. Our local OverDrive sales rep, Michael Shontz, will be the speaker. See Connie’s article on page 1 for details about this CJRLC and INFOLINK incubator project. If you have not signed up yet, or attended previous information meetings, now is your chance.

The Librarians Association of Ocean County (LAOC) is active once again! We had a lively meeting last spring and a core group is now planning programs for this year. If you want to get involved, contact Linda Greenwood at Manchester Township HS, lgreenwood@
manchestertwp.org.

NJASL Fall Conference
(formerly EMAnj)
October 27 - 29, 2005
SLMS: Beacon of
Information at
Your School Library
Cherry Hill Hilton
2349 West Marlton Pike
Cherry Hill, NJ 08002

Registration closes on October 7, so get those forms in right away. You won’t want to miss Jerry Pinckney or Wayne Free or all those great programs and all the fun networking.

Membership dues have to be paid by October 1 to count for the conference. Conference Chair Mary Moyer and her committee have been working hard to bring you the best in professional development. Get the whole program online at www.njasl.org. See you there!

NJ Residents Benefit
from the NJ
Knowledge Initiative

Now on JerseyClicks and available to all NJ residents are RefUSA, EBSCO Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier, thanks to funding for NJKI. Make sure you are taking advantage of these wonderful resources: www.jerseyclicks.org. Academics have additional access to Nature, Wiley and others. Celebrate!

	Returning To CJRLC:
Bilingual Storytelling

CJRLC will once again offer ten libraries the opportunity to present an eight week program of storytelling by bilingual storytellers.

Libraries will choose their target language, hire a storyteller, and buy books for the collection and to take home. The grants are up to $2000 per library. See our web site for more details.

Phyllis’ Favorites for September

American Civil War.com
http://americancivilwar.com/index.html

The American Colonist's Library: A Treasury of Primary Documents
https://www.edline.net/pages/
Catholic_Central_High_School/
Classes/03842501/library

A Boke of Gode Cookery
http://www.godecookery.com/
godeboke/godeboke.htm

The Great Buildings Collection
http://greatbuildings.com/

Knowing Poe: The Literature and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/
default_flash.asp

Mythic Journeys
http://www.mythicjourneys.org
/bigmyth/2_eng_myths.htm
World Mythology Links
http://www.mythicjourneys.org/
bigmyth/2_eng_links.htm

Native American Indian Resources
http://www.kstrom.net/
isk/mainmenu.html
Links page to other Native American resources
http://www.kstrom.net
/isk/linkpage.html

Native Tech: Native American Technology and Art
http://www.nativetech.org/

North American Mammals
http://web4.si.edu/mna/

PBS: The West
http://pbs.org/thewest/
PBS: The West: The People
http://www.pbs.org/
weta/thewest/people/

Sea and Sky
http://www.seasky.org/

World Myths and Legends in Art
http://www.artsmia.org/world-myths/

YES I Can! Science
http://resources.yesican.yorku.ca/

-- Phyllis Anker
anker@hslc.org

Editor’s Note: To subscribe to an email list of selected daily websites,
5 days/week, email Phyllis above.

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Welcome to Mi-Sun Lyu, the new Program Coordinator at INFOLINK.

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On Sept. 13th, Stephen Abram, VP of Innovation at Sirsi, will speak on technology trends at the Sheraton in Eatontown, from 9:30-3:30. Abram’s free talk, Poppies, Flying Monkeys and Good Witches: The Future of Libraries is presented by the NJ State Library as part of the Gates Training Grant Program. Register online at www.njstatelib.org.

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Hold the date:

Verizon Walking Tour for Literacy, October 16, Trenton, 1:00 PM. Get sponsors! More info coming!

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Mary Lewis, past president of NJASL (formerly EMAnj) wrote a great letter on the value of school libraries. We have it on our website.

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CJRLC is turning 20 in the Fall and we are ready to celebrate! Hold two special dates and you will get more details later: on December 15 we will have a luncheon at Main Street Bistro in Freehold with special guests, and on May 25 we will be visiting TCNJ’s new library and hearing tech guru Mary Ellen Bates. Stay tuned!

Calendar of Events

Sept. 9-10: Barnes & Noble promotion for Summer Reading, see p. 2.
Sept. 13: NJSL program with Stephen Abram, 9:30-3:30, p. 3.
Sept. 14: Gates Training program, CJRLC, 15th: NJSL, 9:30-12:30.
Sept. 15: CJRLC Board Meeting, 3:30-5:30.
Sept. 21: Funding Ctr. Tour, 10-12, NJ State Library, see p.2.
Sept. 21: TechGroup program OverDrive Digital Library, 3:30-5:00, CJRLC, free, see p.2.
Sept. 26: Images of Librarians, 10-12, East Brunswick PL, See our web.
Sept. 27: Preparing Your Library For Transition, see p.1.
Sept. 29: Picture This! Images and Audio on AccuNet and EBSCOhost, 9:30-11:30, Princeton PL, see p.2.
Sept. 30-Oct. 1: Trustee Institute.
Oct. 6: Garden State Book Awards program, 4-6, OCL-Toms River, free, see p. 2. Also 10/20 Hamilton B&N.
Oct. 7: BookEval, 9-1, Neptune PL.
Oct. 19: Book Clubs for Everyone, Monmouth Librarians Assoc., see p. 1.
Oct. 27-29: NJASL (EMA) Fall Conference; Deadline Oct. 7, no lates!

Getting to
Know
Pam Groves

We are delighted to profile Pam Groves, youth services librarian at Princeton Public Library and winner of the Allie Beth Martin Award from ALA. The award honors a public librarian who has demonstrated — and shared with colleagues — an extraordinary range and depth of knowledge about library materials. In Pam’s gracious acceptance speech, she acknowledged the support she’s received from the Princeton Public Library staff, especially from Susan Roth, head of Reader Services.

Pam’s interest in librarianship developed during the five years that she home-schooled her children. Through a multicultural internship sponsored by the Friends of the Princeton Public Library, she attended Rutgers SCILS while

working at Princeton PL, rotating through all the departments and getting to know the staff and services. She’s been at Princeton PL ever since, primarily in the Youth Services Dept.

Pam currently runs a variety of programs, from lapsits for infants to book discussion groups. One of her book discussion groups is for homeschoolers, another is an innovative intergenerational group for 8-10 years olds with an adult of their choosing. She’s done outreach to learning centers, run teen programs, and been involved with Princeton Reads as well. The opportunity to participate in such a variety of activities is one of the most rewarding aspects of her job at Princeton.

In winning the Allie Beth Martin award, Pam joins the ranks of librarians like Nancy Pearl, Joyce Saricks, and Merle Jacob whose expertise and dedication has enriched our profession. Congratulations Pam!

Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative
4400 Route 9 South, Suite 3400
Freehold, NJ 07728-1383
(732) 409-6484
1-800-316-2518

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