C J R L C  UPDATE

Program Coordinator's Notes

Know a Mover & Shaker?

    The seventh annual Library Journal Movers & Shakers supplement will celebrate new professionals who are moving libraries forward! Several New Jerseyans have been featured before!

Want to nominate someone? Go here. Deadline is November 28th (but, if you submitted anything prior to Nov. 5th, please resubmit as LJ experienced technical difficulties).

Make Time to Learn

    Having trouble finding (or justifying, to yourself or others) time to learn new things? Check out the blog post 10 Ways to Find Time for 23 Things from the Librarians Matter blog.

Some hints:
    Buddy Up - work with a friend;
    15 Minutes a Day - schedule it in;
    Week-by-Week - commit to it one week at a time;
    Your Interests - work them in when trying/learning new tools.

Spotlight On
Committees

    CJARL is Central Jersey Academic Reference Librarians’ Group. They meet to discuss practical issues affecting academic reference librarians.

    If you want to share best practices, assessments of products and materials, and network with your colleagues, please join us for the next meeting, Friday, Dec. 7th, 10-12, at OCC.

    Check out their blog, too: http://cjarl.blogspot.com/.

Phyllis’s Favorites for December/January

BugGuide
http://www.bugguide.net/

Center for History and New Media
http://chnm.gmu.edu/

Women in World History
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/index.php

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Online Exhibitions
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/

The History of the Supreme Court
http://www.historyofsupremecourt.org

Holocaust Encyclopedia
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/

How Much Is That?
http://eh.net/hmit/

Lewis Carroll Home Page
http://www.lewiscarroll.org/nfcarroll.html
Lewis Carroll As Taught in K-12
http://www.lewiscarroll.org/k12.html

Martin Luther King, Jr. Encyclopedia
http://www.stanford.edu/group/
King/about_king/encyclopedia

NY Times Learning Network
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
NY Times Newsroom Navigator
http://www.nytimes.com/navigator
NY Times Student Navigator
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
general/navigator/students.html
NY Times Teacher Navigator
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
general/navigator/teachers.html
NY Times Learning Network: Issues in Depth
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
general/specials/index.html
free registration?

Television News Archive
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/

Timeline Index: People, Events, Periods & Places
http://www.timelineindex.com/content/home.php

U.S. History Resources
http://www.polytechnic.org/faculty/gfeldmeth/USHistory.html
Contemporary Ethical Issues
http://www.polytechnic.org/faculty/gfeldmeth/ethics.html

Wex: Law Encyclopedia and Dictionary
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Main_Page

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

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From NJLA: Honors and Awards Committee wants you to know now is a great time to start thinking about who you would like to nominate for the annual NJLA Honors and Awards.  Think about it now before the holiday rush occupies your mind.  Nominations open in early January and are bestowed at the spring conference.  Please go to www.njla.org/
honorsawards/ for a list of the awards and past winners.  This year there is a new Public Relations Award category - most creative use of technology.

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    Speaking of awards! Congratulations to Ocean County Library for being one of five libraries selected nationwide to win an IMLS Medal for outstanding service. The $10,000 award will be presented in Washington, DC. Well done!

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    NextReads Users are invited to attend a group session on December 6 at CJRLC at 2 PM to talk about the service, share marketing ideas, and receive new marketing materials. Curious about the NextReads program? You can come, too! RSVP to carol@cjrlc.org.

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    NJLA’s Urban Libraries Section and the four RLCs sponsored “New Places from Old Spaces” at Princeton PL on November 1. Watch for links to the three excellent presentations by Carol Nersinger, Jeffrey Scherer, and Cynthia Nikiten.

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Getting to Know… Sue Buccellato

    Last month we said goodbye to Mickey and this month we are welcoming Sue Buccellato, who will be working two days a week at CJRLC. She will be taking over most of Mickey's duties — CD&L, program signups, (watering the plants), and, of course, the mailings! This semester she is working on Mondays and Thursdays, because that’s when she is not in class at Kean U, where she is getting a BA in Elementary Education with a concentration in English.

    For 15 years Sue was the library aide in Manalapan-Englishtown schools, most recently at Wemrock Brook School, where she worked with librarian Esther Peck. Last year

those positions were abolished, and Carol immediately thought of Sue when Mickey announced her retirement. Sue has gone on most of our summer trips with her sister Peggy and she has taken many classes with CJRLC over the years. She loves children’s literature, so her favorite trip was to Dr. Dornish’s home a couple of summer’s ago, where he showed us his amazing collection of art from children’s book illustrators.

    Sue is the mother of four grown children. One son lives in Seattle, and she is looking forward to seeing the new public library when she visits. She has lived in Manalapan for the past 32 years.

    One of her favorite pastimes is going with the NJ Outdoor Women’s League, NJOWL, which has hiking, kayaking, bird-watching, and other nature oriented activities.

    You will meet Sue at the Membership Meeting on Dec. 19th. Welcome, Sue, to CJRLC!

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