CJRLC Newsletter Archives

April 2001

C J R L C UPDATE

Region News
&
Notes

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

April 2001

2001-8

Who, Me? A Librarian?

Your patrons, your teaching staff, your co-workers may make great librarians! How do we get the word to them? Two ways: the first is a series of Open Houses to encourage people to consider librarianship as a first or second career, and the second is by displaying a brochure box with pamphlets designed to tell our story and promote our website (that’s really a third way.)

The first Open House is Wednesday, April 4, from 7-8 pm, at Ocean County Library in Toms River. The Recruiting Committee hopes to use this Open House as a model for many others in the Region and around the state. Perhaps your library will consider hosting one! Mercer County Library is already planning one for June.

Or perhaps you would like to join the CJRLC Recruiting Committee and get excited with us about these great plans. Special thanks to Faith Lundgren of OCL for planning our first Open House and Laura Gruninger of Mercer County Library for designing the bookmarks advertising it.

So on April 4, go to Taylors Mills School Library’s Open House at 3:30 pm and then come to Ocean County Library at 7:00. New State Librarian Norma Blake plans to attend and so does Dr. Carol Kuhlthau from Rutgers SCILS. Tell your patrons!

Get Ready for Spring Membership Meeting
May 22, 3:30 PM

Plan now to attend CJRLC’s Spring Membership Meeting on Tuesday, May 22, at Battleground Country Club. New State Librarian Norma Blake will address the group, and the NetLibrary pilot project participants will give their first impressions of the program. The meeting begins at 4:00 pm.

CJRLC Invited to Join SJRLC’s I-Ref

The State Library is supporting the expansion of SJRLC’s Internet Reference project: Q and A NJ. The project will allow a participating library’s patrons to click on an icon on their web page and be linked to a reference librarian in an online chat session. The software chosen is LSSI’s product. It allows the reference librarian to guide the patron through an Internet search and send web pages which may answer the question.

Participating libraries agree to provide staff to cover from 5-10 hours a week on the virtual reference desk. The staff will receive special training.

The project is expected to be operational in the fall of 2001. Four CJRLC libraries have expressed interest in participating so far. Interested libraries will have an information session at CJRLC on April 25.

	Open House Taylor Mills School
Grades K-3 New Media Center April 4, 3:30-5:00 PM

Manalapan Library Media Specialist Joan Brady will be happy to show you her brand new library, open this year. It will also be a chance to meet some local librarians, find out what’s happening in the region and in the state, and share joys and problems with your colleagues. Refreshments, of course.

Taylor Mills School is west of Route 9 on Gordons Corner Road in Manalapan. School librarians who RSVP to the CJRLC office will have a professional development certificate waiting for them.

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Scholarship

A $500 scholarship will be awarded to a person in a graduate program of Library Science. Priority is to residents of Middletown Twp., but in their absence, others will be considered. Get an application from Middletown Township PL. Completed forms are due by June 30, 2001.

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Library Assistant

Georgian Court College has an opening for a library assistant, working 40 hours per week including 2 evenings and one weekend day. Duties are divided between public and technical services. For full job posting and application procedure, visit the web site at www.georgian.edu/
hresources and click on the link for Employment Opportunities.

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Help Wanted

The Mercer County Library System has one part time professional opening in the Reference Department, Ewing. They are also seeking to fill the newly created position of Technology Trainer at the Lawrence HQ. This position will play a pivotal role in developing and providing training for staff and patrons in the use of various library information technologies. In addition, they have a full time opening for a Senior Network Librarian in their IT Department.
For information, contact Ellen Brown at (609) 989-6807 or email her at ebrown@mcl.org.

CJRLC
Executive Board

President
Linda Greenwood
Manchester Township HS

Vice President
Kathryn Holden
Rider University

Secretary
David Murray
Brookdale Community College

Treasurer
Robin Siegel
CentraState Medical Center

Members
Phyllis Anker
Hightstown HS
Mary Ann Fox
Hun School
Phyllis Fyfe
Ocean Township Intermediate School
John Glace
Ocean County Library
Agatha Grady
Toms River Intermediate School East
Alan Heinlein
Neptune Public Library
Mary Mallery
The College of New Jersey
Anne Page
Lay Representative
Carl Penn
Pinelands Regional HS
Joyce Smothers
Monmouth County
John Woolf
Lay Representative

Executive Director and Update Editor
Connie Paul
connie@cjrlc.org
(732) 409-6484
1-800-316-2518
Fax: (732) 409-6492
http://www.cjrlc.org

NASA Classes Offered

     The NASA Educator Resource Center at Georgian Court College will be hosting four Lunar Rock Certification Workshops on June 26 and 27, 2001, at 9 am and 1 pm each day. These workshops are open to educators (teachers, school library media specialists, and educational supervisors or administrators). Attendance at one of the workshops enables the educator to borrow the lunar rock samples from NASA.
     The workshops will be held in the Sambol Room of the Sister Mary Joseph Cunningham Library at Georgian Court College. Educators will receive three professional development hours for attending. There is NO CHARGE for this workshop and light refreshments will be served.
     Additional information and online registration will be available at the ERC's website:
www.georgian.edu/nasa.

EBSCO ADMIN Atttendees Learned…

Among other things, we learned how to turn on "Foreign Language Translation Allowed," so the articles can be translated as well as the interface. We learned how to have different interfaces default to different parts of our library, so the children’s room can have Searchasaurus. We learned that we could link our page to our web catalog for our journal holdings. Icons can be put on the web page to jump directly to NewsSource or Health Source and they can say things like, "Click here for Newspapers." We customized reports and discussed remote access. Let us know if we need to reschedule...

SuperSupervisor Series Begins September 21

It has a waiting list currently. Call CJRLC to be added to the list or watch for upcoming notices of the next class.

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Sci-Math World April 5 9-12 Noon

There may still be room for Robert Lackie’s highly rated hands-on Internet program on science and math. The class limit is 15. Call CJRLC now to see if you can be registered.

Princeton-Trenton SLA Announces Programs

The chapter will have a meeting on April 25th on CrossRef -- links to and from scholarly publications. The location is still to be determined.
Our May meeting will be on May 17th, at Princeton University's Prospect House. Our speaker will be Mary Ellen Bates; her topic: "The Future of Special Librarianship." For more information, contact Susan Moss, Manager of Information Resources, CUH2A, Inc., at (609) 452-1212.

www.becomealibrarian.org

Two Part-Time Positions Open at Mercer County Community College

1) On-call Library Specialist, Reference, West Windsor. ALA-accredited master's degree required. Work 5 pm-10 pm, Monday - Thursday; 4-9 during summer. General reference and BI duties. Must enjoy working with the public and have strong computer skills. Pay: $14-$16 per hour, based on experience.
2) Part-time Library Clerk, Circulation, West Windsor. Previous library experience a plus; must have high school diploma. Provide general circulation desk assistance, including resource check-out/in, sending obligations, answering telephones, and data entry of student circulation account information. Work 12 pm-3 pm or 1 pm-4 pm, Monday-Friday. Pay is $6.50 per hour. Contact Pam Price, Library Director, at (609) 568-4800, x3562.

Exec Board News

     The Executive Board will vote in April on the budget to be presented to the membership at the May 22 meeting. Using survey results, the Board will determine which programs in the three year plan will receive priority.
     At the March 15 meeting, Toms River School Library Media Specialist, Agatha Grady, was voted by the Board to fill the un-expired term of Mary Dobbs, Ocean County Member at Large. Mary is retiring as Director of the Ocean County College Library in April to try her dream of living in the West. We will miss you, Mary!
     Aggie Grady is librarian at Toms River Intermediate East and brings years of experience and a lot of enthusiasm to the Board. Welcome, Aggie.

Young Adult Training Videos Now Available

     Do you want to improve your Young Adult collections and services? CJRLC just purchased two training videos you won’t want to miss: "Programming for Young Adults" and "Collection Development: Knowledge & Selection of Materials."
     Produced by Michael Cart and YALSA, these two videos offer practical guidance that will benefit both generalists and specialists delivering YA services. Both feature interviews with trend-setting YA experts, footage of YA areas in libraries, online text to accompany the program and 50-page companion handbooks. The running time is about 60 minutes.
     The highlights of these videos include popular programming ideas, recommendations for getting teens involved in the planning process, survey techniques and discussion of teen fiction genres and quality review sources. The online resource lists contained in the handouts are an invaluable supplement. Everyone who watches these will come away with a new idea or two.
     Sign up to borrow one today!

Laura Gruninger,
Mercer County Library System
Young Adult Librarian

Phyllis’ Fabulous Finds for April

ArtLex Visual Arts Dictionary
http://Artlex.com/

AskART.com
http://askart.com/

Biography of America
(each subject has a Webography)
http://www.learner.org/
biographyofamerica/

Gale Group's Free Resources (many biographies)
http://www.galegroup.
com/freresrc/

History Matters
http://historymatters.
gmu.edu/

Index of Poets in Representative Poetry On-Line
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/
utel/rp/indexauthors.html

Internet Public Library
Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/

Internet Resources
Published Monthly - ACRL
http://www.ala.org/
acrl/resrces.html

McREL Educator's Resources
http://www.mcrel.org/
resources/links/hotlinks.asp

OCLC NetFirst Hot Topics
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/
menu/hottopics.htm

Physics 2000
http://www.colorado.edu/
physics/2000/index.pl

Sprocket Works
http://www.sprocket
works.com/

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anker@hslc.org
(Email Phyllis to be put on her distribution list for four great websites daily.)

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School Library Media Specialist Needed
July 1, 2001, for the new Crawford-Rodriguez Elementary School in Jackson School District (northern Ocean County). Responsibilities include daily operation of library and library instruction for grades K-4. MLS and computer experience required.
Familiarity with audio-visual equipment recommended. Send resume and three references to Ms. Nancy Kides, Jackson School District Personnel Office, 151 Don Connor Blvd., Jackson, NJ 08527. (732) 833-4600, x4204.

ALA’s ASCLA division has just published Library Networks in the New Millennium: 10 Top Trends. Connie Paul wrote Chapter Four: "Growth in Buying Clubs and Cooperatives -- None Of My Members Wants to Pay Full Price for Anything!". Of course, CJRLC owns a copy….

Having Comet Delivery Problems?
Call or email Carol at CJRLC and she will run interference. Email her at carol@cjrlc.org.

Do you have our Patron Help page linked to your desktop yet? It is designed to give help to your patrons when they have technology or Internet problems. www.cjrlc.org/
helpdefault.html

Calendar of Events

April 3: Technology Meeting. "Types of Internet Connectivity & Network Troubleshooting" by Todd Reischer, TJR Enterprises. Monmouth County Library, Manalapan, 9:30 am. All welcome.
April 4:
~ Open House at Taylors Mills School. Manalapan, 3:30-5 pm.
~ Open House: "Who Me? A Librarian?" Ocean County Library, Toms River, 7-8 pm.
See page 1.
April 5: Sci-Math World, CJRLC.
April 6: Open House. Booker Health Science Library, Jersey Shore Medical Center, 2-5 pm.
April 25: Monmouth Librarians Open House. Sandy Hook Wolford and MAST libraries, 2-4 pm. All welcome. Call CJRLC to RSVP. Free.
April 29-May 1: NJLA Conference, Atlantic City.
May 22: Spring Membership Meeting. Battleground Country Club, 4:00-5:30. Refreshments & networking at 3:30.
June 15-18: ALA San Francisco.
June 29: Trip to Barnes Museum.
July 31: Hold the date for Summer Treat 2. Battleground County Club, all-star cast.

Getting to Know...
Norma Blake

     Our new State Librarian is the former Director of the Burlington County Library, a former president of NJLA, and NJLA’s Librarian of the Year in 1999. With all that background in NJ librarianship, Norma hasn’t wasted any time in taking over the reins of the State Library since she began in mid-February.
     In an early meeting with the four Region Directors, Norma indicated that she valued the energy and excitement that the Region programs provide for their members and hopes to replicate some of the benefits on a statewide basis. She is very excited, for example, about CJRLC’s Become a Librarian campaign, and wants to see the program expanded and extended.
     Norma sees the development of librarians as professional and community leaders to be an important charge. The first librarian to participate

in Leadership New Jersey, Norma found the experience rewarding both personally and professionally. Leadership New Jersey is sponsored by Partnership New Jersey, a coalition of corporate and government leaders. Their goal since 1986 is to encourage leaders in New Jersey to become leaders of New Jersey.
Each Leadership class meets monthly for a year to explore areas critical to NJ’s well-being as a state. The second year of the program, each class takes on a project. Being part of the class introduced Norma to corporate and community leaders she would not have otherwise met, and gave her a state-wide perspective which she values.
Norma will be attending our Spring Membership Meeting on Tuesday, May 22 at Battleground Country Club. The meeting starts with refreshments and networking at 3:30. The business meeting and program begin at 4 PM.

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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