ANNOUNCEMENTS

The 2022 NJLibsGrowBiz Summit will be held virtually on September 15, 2022 from 10am-2pm.

This mini-conference is focused on the value libraries bring to the small business owners and entrepreneurs in their communities. We will be paying particular focus to how entrepreneurship can change lives, empower people, and revitalize neighborhoods. Speakers will provide insight on the role libraries can play in economic development and share creative ways libraries can start or grow their business outreach and services. 

Registration is now open for the New Jersey Library Virtual Trustee Institute, co-hosted by the New Jersey State Library and the New Jersey Library Trustee Association. This event will take place October 8th from 9AM-4PM.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

·     EDI for Library Boards

·     Hiring Your Library Director

·     Censorship and Book Challenges

·     New Trustees Orientation

·     Writing Strategic and Capital Plans

·     Library Law with Michael Cerone, Esq., and more.

Curious how your JerseyClicks resource, Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep, is being used? Join us for a webinar on Thursday, September 8th from 10:00 - 11:00 AM ET to explore Gale’s Usage Dashboard. This is a tool that provides quick, visual access to your product usage including a report for Peterson’s content so you can see which tools in the resource are used most heavily. (Reach out to Gale’s Technical Support 1-800-877-4253 option 4 or gale.technicalsupport [@] cengage.com for your library's access to the Usage Dashboard.) 

NJSL is allocating federal funding from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) through a competitive grant program to address literacy needs. We are recruiting reviewers to read and score applications from public libraries and all library consortia organized as 501(c)(3) entities across the state. We want to gather reviewers who represent all our libraries, big and small, and from all regions. Please consider joining our team and helping decide on these awards.

We are asking for your help to benchmark both public library preparedness for disaster and their contribution to community resilience efforts. This research is being conducted by Monika Antonelli (Minnesota State University, Mankato), Rebekkah Smith Aldrich (Mid-Hudson Library System), Adrian K. Ho (University of Chicago) and René Tanner (Rollins College).

Please fill out the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) summer reading survey. This survey was created so CSLP can better assess the usefulness of the materials offered by the program on a national level to better serve you, the CSLP membership! Here is the link to the survey.

The State Library will soon roll out new grants management software from Foundant Technologies called Grant Lifecycle Manager. All ARPA grantees will be required to use this software for grant-end reporting this year. On July 14 at 10am we will host an informational webinar to provide an overview of the software and the ARPA reporting process. Please click the following link to register for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Y0IjAwKIQiSzapqVgNAU1w.

The State Library's grants manager, Maura Walsh, and the Lifelong Learning team, have recorded an overview of the process and procedures required to apply for the LSTA 2022 grants, along with helpful examples of possible opportunities. These apply to New Jersey public libraries and all library consortia organized as 501(c)(3) entities.

Click the following link to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQJS8KFwyfg&t=4s

We are happy to announce the following new resources have been published on the JerseyClicks page and are now available for access. Click the following link for descriptions and instructions for accessing each new resource, as well as a review of resources already offered and still available.

https://www.njstatelib.org/Statewide-Database-Access

Hoboken Public Library presents Garden State Jazz Greats – Sonny Greer Listening Session – July 6th at 6:30pm

Come and join Jazz scholar Ben Young as he explores the majesty, style, and genius of New Jersey’s own jazz greats. Many of these names you may already know and all of them you should know as each of these innovators have left their indelible imprint on world culture through the great African American creation of Jazz.