We’re still floating on a cloud of good feeling and newly overflowing to-do lists thanks to last week’s Membership Meeting and Workshop, held at the Monroe Township Public Library in Middlesex County. A big thank you to all the colleagues from member libraries whose participation contributed to the success of the day. It was wonderful to once more gather and learn with you.
Geoff DiMasi, whose team from P’unk Ave facilitated our Makerspace Next Steps workshop in June, led the meeting’s morning workshop, Don’t Just Survive - Thrive! The activities Geoff and his colleague Ilyssa Kyu developed led us to brainstorm and strategize projects and services for our communities. These exercises were punctuated by five Lightning Talks by colleagues in libraries and library-allied professions:
- Carina Gonzalez, Raritan Valley Community College
- Briann Greenfield, New Jersey Council for the Humanities
- Arlen Kimmelman, Clearview Regional High School
- Robb Mackes, Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey
- Mary Rizzo, Rutgers University-Newark
Following a delicious buffet lunch, Executive Board President Kimberly Paone chaired a business meeting during which the Voting Reps in attendance voted to accept the following documents:
- FY16 Spring Membership Meeting Minutes
- FY17 Budget Report
- FY16 Continuing Education Annual Report
- FY16 Executive Director's Report
- Proposed Change in Bylaws
- FY2015 Director's Report to the Membership
We’d also like to thank our generous hosts at the Monroe Township Library. We look forward to seeing many of you at our Spring Membership Meeting in May!
Fall Membership Meeting Photos
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Arlen Kimmelman & Carina Gonzalez, lightning speakers
on crowdfunding for stationary bikes in the school library
& redesigning a high school library from top to bottom.
Lightning Speakers Mary Rizzo (Rutgers University-Newark,
lead organizer of the annual public history Telling Untold Histories Unconference)
and Briann Greenfield (Executive Director of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities)
Luca Manna (PALS Plus) & Mimi Lee (New Jersey State Library)
MAIN Executive Director Phillip Berg & LibraryLinkNJ Assistant Director Joanne Roukens
Brett Bonfield (Princeton Public Library) & Laverne Mann (Cherry Hill Public Library)
(From the left) LLNJ Executive Board President Kimberly Paone,
Pat Massey (New Jersey Association of School Librarians Board) and LibraryLinkNJ Board member Janice Cooper