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CJRLC Newsletter
Archives
December 2005 - January 2006
C J R L C UPDATE
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Region
News
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Notes |
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of Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative, serving
Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean Counties |
| December
2005-January 2006 |
2006-04 |
| Susan
Briant to be Honored at Fall Membership Meeting! |
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December
15, 2005
1-4 PM
Main Street Bistro, Freehold |
Susan
Briant has left the Library Development Bureau of the NJ State Library
to become the Director of the Burlington County College Library. As a
staff member of LDB, Susan was asked to manage the IMLS grant for
recruiting urban librarians. Since Susan puts her heart and soul into
every project she manages, the IMLS grant became a passion with her.
Much of the success of the grant, which will end next October, is due to
Susan’s diligence, hard work, attention to detail, and care for the 20
students and 17 libraries participating. Honoring Susan at our Fall
Membership Meeting is our way of saying thank you to a person who makes
a real difference in our profession!
There
will be other celebrations on December 15, too. Twenty years ago was the
official beginning of CJRLC, then called Region V. Our first director,
Dottie Hiebing, will be the keynote speaker. Norma Blake will give a
state update and Pat Tumulty will report for NJLA.
We will
also recognize charter members, members of the Interim Planning
Committee, first Executive Board, and Board presidents who may be with
us on that day. RSVP for the 1 PM lunch at a cost of $15, or come at 2
PM for coffee, dessert, the business meeting and special recognitions.
ALA President Elect Leslie Burger has indicated that she will also be
joining us. Leslie was the second executive director of CJRLC. Don’t
miss it!
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Wireless Project
Launched
CJRLC Elects New
Executive Board Members for 2006
Retiring
Board Members John Glace, Public Library Representative and John
Woolf, Lay Representative, will be recognized at the Fall Membership
Meeting and thanked for their six years of service each. Replacing them
on the Board will be Katherine Durante, Ocean First Foundation
Executive Director, as Lay Representative, and Kathleen Carr,
Ocean County Library, as Public Library Representative. They will be
introduced at the Fall Membership Meeting on December 15.
Re-elected to the Board for their second three year terms are: Karen
Black, West Windsor Plainsboro Middle School; Catherine Boss,
Jersey Shore University Medical Center Library; Barbara Ruth,
Hooper Avenue School, Toms River; and Karen Topham, Brookdale
Community College.
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ListenNJ
Libraries Begin Ordering Titles |
Twenty
CJRLC and INFOLINK libraries have signed contracts to be part of our
first pilot project for downloadable audiobooks and have attended a
Webinar training session in ordering titles. Over 4000 titles are
currently in the audiobook collection of Overdrive, and the group has
made some preliminary decisions. The project, called ListenNJ,
will have its own website, and will mostly contain audiobooks (with a
few ebooks). Books will be checked out for two weeks. And then we’ll
see how it goes!
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Welcome to new
librarians or librarians in new places!
Colleen
Alcott at Long Branch HS.
Rachel Klein at Clifton Ave. ES,
Lakewood.
Olga Dytyniak at Mott School in Trenton.
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Connie Paul was invited to be part of Leslie Burger’s ALA
Presidency Planning Team and spent November 13 and 14 in Chicago. Twenty
librarians from around the country were asked to participate. The group
chose a theme, selected several projects to focus on, and will keep in
touch electronically until their next meeting at ALA Midwinter in San
Antonio in January.
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CJILL,
the Region’s resource sharing committee, met on October 18 at CJRLC.
Guest speaker Chris Martire from Palinet spoke to the group about Ariel
4. The group will meet again on January 17, from 10-12 at CJRLC. If you
are interested in interlibrary loan, and want to know more about the
group, contact CJILL chair Linda Silverstein, Automation &
Information Supervisor, Monmouth U. Library. Phone her at 732-571-4405
or email her at lsilvers@monmouth.edu.
Try it; you’ll like it!
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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
Ruth Bogan
Georgian Court
University
April Butler
Lay Representative
Mary Fraser
Pennington School
John Glace
Ocean County Library
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
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 |
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Notes
from CISSL |
CISSL,
the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries, is located
at Rutgers University. It was founded by Dr. Carol Kuhlthau and quickly
joined by Dr. Ross Todd. It receives no funding from Rutgers, but relies
on donations and research grants. The goal of CISSL is to focus
attention on the role of school libraries in student learning. An
advisory board meets semi-annually to give input to priorities and
fund-raising. Connie Paul is a member of that board.
Dr.
Kuhlthau, who is retiring from Rutgers SCILS in December, will remain
involved with CISSL. She was honored for her contributions to school
librarianship at the recent NJASL Fall Conference in October at Cherry
Hill.
Recent
studies have been in Ohio, Delaware, and NJ. The studies are making
clear the powerful role that guided intervention by the school librarian
has on the research process.
For more
information about CISSL, see the website at www.cissl.scils.rutgers.edu.
If you
share CISSL’s goals and are interested in making a contribution, make
your check out to RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION and clearly
marked for CISSL.
Mail your
check to:
CISSL
SCILS Development
Office
4 Huntington
Street
New Brunswick, NJ
08901
All
donations are eligible for tax credit.
ALA Will Hold
Annual Meeting in New Orleans
ALA
President Michael Gorman has announced that the 2006 Annual Meeting will
take place in New Orleans in June as originally scheduled. Other
organizations have relocated. CJRLC member Leslie Burger will be
installed as ALA President at that meeting.
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Program
Coordinator’s
Notes |
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As the weather turns cold
and gray, we offer the warmth of our workshops and get-togethers to help
you make it through the winter! Check out the Calendar
link on our home page for more details.
On December 14th, at
Monmouth Co. Lib. HQ in Manalapan, we’re hosting a book repair
workshop with Kim Avagliano. If you haven’t been to one of Kim’s
workshops, you’ve missed a great experience. We’ve become so used to
things that can’t be repaired; it’s so satisfying to learn how to
make a book last longer and look better. This is a totally hands-on
workshop — like arts and crafts, only better. Come at 9 am for coffee;
the workshop runs from 9:30-12:30. Cost: $35.00 includes a packet of
supplies to take home. Call the office to register; space is limited to
20.
Can you believe another year
has passed and the Youth Services Forum is here? It’s on Dec. 5th and
it’s very conveniently located at Monmouth Co. Lib. HQ in Manalapan,
from 9-3. Our own Jo Dervan, librarian at Strathmore ES in Matawan will
be one of the speakers. Jo’s will speak about how school and public
librarians can work together to create pathfinders for school
assignments. Go to www.njyac.org/ysf
for more information and to register.
Monmouth Librarians, a group
devoted to networking and learning, is offering a free program on
Customer Service in a Multicultural Environment on Dec. 8th at Monmouth
Co. Lib. HQ in Manalapan. Ingrid Betancourt, or MultiMac at Newark PL,
will be the speaker for this timely, interactive workshop. You don’t
have to live or work in Monmouth to attend this free program, and you
don’t even have to be a member of Monmouth Librarians to attend. (It’s
a great organization and the dues are only $8.00.) |
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Dear
Friends
at CJRLC, |
I am so pleased to be
asked to speak at the December 15th celebration about the way things
were when Central Jersey got started. The memories are coming back
slowly. For example, I remember when I first visited the new office in
Shrewsbury right after starting the job and discovered that there was
no furniture! I also remember all of the trips I made from the Shore
office to the Princeton area because then President, Ross Stephen, was
at Rider College and Treasurer, Bob Staples, was at Princeton Public
Library. One day I got a flat tire and the service vehicle was slow to
arrive. Poor Bob and Ross waited and waited and waited for me to show
up. That was, of course, “BCP”: Before Cell Phones.
On the 15th, I will try to
reflect on some of the issues and challenges we had then. I also hope
to have with me a visual image or two. Maybe you’ll see yourself in
one of them!
I still live in New Jersey
(Cedar Grove), and I am busy working in NYC as Executive Director of
the Metropolitan New York Library Council. “METRO” has over 260
member libraries -- mostly academic and special. (See our website at www.metro.org
for more services.) I still enjoy this type of work and the librarians
I work with, and I believe strongly that there is a future for
libraries and library consortia!
Between now and the 15th I
can really use your help. If you were involved in Central Jersey
during the early years, please send me any stories or events that
stand out for you. My email address is dhiebing@metro.org.
I hope you’ll join me in
celebrating this important anniversary and in reminiscing over the
past. If you can’t attend, please contact me and tell me what you’re
up to these days.
Looking forward to seeing
you on December 15th!
Dottie Hiebing
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Phyllis’
Favorites for December |
American Field Guide
http://www.pbs.org/
americanfieldguide/
Biographies of Mathematicians
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/
~history/BiogIndex.html
The Civil War Home Page
http://www.civil-war.net/
Eric Weisstein's World of Science
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/
Hawthorne In Salem
http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org
The History Guide
http://www.historyguide.org/
index.html
History Resources
http://www.historyguide.org/
resources.html
History of Biomedicine
http://www.mic.ki.se/History.html
Kids Online Resources K-16
http://www.kidsolr.com/index.html
Platonic Realms Home Page
http://www.mathacademy.com/
pr/index.asp
The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher
http://www.mathacademy.com/
pr/minitext/escher/
Romantic Circles
http://www.rc.umd.edu/
http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/
Tree of Life Web Project
http://tolweb.org/tree/
USS Arizona -- "that terrible
day"
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/
images/USS_Arizona/
USS_Arizona.shtml
Internet Resources on the USS
Arizona and the Pearl Harbor attack
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/
images/USS_Arizona/links.shtml
--
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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Jean Rossolino of Youth
Stages will once again provide training in storytelling for our World
Language Storytelling project. Each of the ten participating
libraries will be hiring a bilingual student to tell stories in the
target language and in English for eight weeks. The training session
will be held on January 7 at the Twin Rivers Branch of the Mercer
County Library. The storytellers will also be working with a children’s
librarian during the program.
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Keansburg’s Waterfront
Public Library is about to open. It is the first free standing
library in Keansburg’s history, and the community is very excited.
Library Director Ellen O’Brien and many volunteers have been working
hard to get ready. Watch their website at www.keansburglibrary.us/
for the exact opening date.
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Contracts for the new Wireless
Grants for public libraries will be out soon. Forty seven
libraries will receive installation or equipment from the grant which
is a joint project of the New Jersey State Library and CJRLC.
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of Events |
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December
1: SchoolGroup Open House, Ocean Twp. Intermediate,
4-6. All welcome.
December 2: Book Eval,
Neptune Twp PL, 9:30-1. Call Cheryl Otten, 732-775-8241
December 5: Youth Services
Forum, Monmouth Co. HQ, 9:30-3, see p.2.
December 8: Customer Service in
a Multicultural Environment, Monmouth Librarians & CJRLC, 2-5,
Monmouth County HQ, see p. 2.
December 14: Book Repair,
9:30 – 12:30, Monmouth County HQ, see p. 2.
December 15: CJRLC Membership
Meeting Luncheon, Main Street Bistro, see p.1.
January 7: Bilingual
Storytelling workshop for storytellers, Mercer Co., Lib. Twin
Rivers, 10-12.
January 12: CJRLC Exec. Bd,
3:30-5:30, CJRLC. (Note date change due to ALA.)
January 17: CJILL meeting,
10-12, CJRLC, see p. 1.
January 20-23: ALA Midwinter,
San Antonio, TX.
February 3: Book Eval,
Neptune Twp PL, 9:30-1. Call Cheryl Otten. 732-775-8241. |
Region V, CJRLC,
and Me
Connie Paul
OK, so I
can’t remember when I first got active in the region, but let’s say
it was long, long ago. As a librarian at Marlboro HS, I had been a
member of the old Area Reference Council. Then Region Director Dottie
Hiebing invited me to be a member of the SchoolGroup — the best
invitation I ever got. And in 1990 I was appointed to the Executive
Board to fill in for Elinor Ebeling and spent seven years as part of it.
The
SchoolGroup put on many workshops as Phyllis Anker and Jeannette Erbst
tried to get us to be computer literate, and Jean Curtin shared her love
of discounts, and Linda Greenwood and Phyllis Fyfe modeled the
cooperative spirit. Mary Ann Fox, Jayne Frye, and Joan Brady all spent
hours and hours planning activities, taking trips, and eating pizza at
Feds.
In 1997 I
served as President of the Executive
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Board and then Director
Leslie Burger came to Freehold Twp HS where I was librarian to tell me
she was going back to full-time consulting. “And you should take my
job,” she told me. After much soul searching, I resigned as Board
President to apply, and I became CJRLC’s third Director in June, 1997.
Well,
that was scary. There was no precedent for a school librarian to become
Region Director and if it hadn’t been for Karen Hyman, SJRLC’s
Director from the beginning, I don’t know what I would have done.
But she
was there, and so were my friends on the Executive Board and in the
SchoolGroup, and the rest is history.
That’s
the thing about the Regions that have been so compelling. It’s people
knowing what their colleagues need and setting out to deliver it. It’s
the relationships that are formed when consummate professionals work for
the good of all the residents of our three counties. It’s the
satisfaction of making a difference!
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This article is the
third in a series celebrating CJRLC’s 20 Anniversary! |
Central Jersey Regional Library
Cooperative
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