C J R L C  UPDATE

Program Coordinator's Notes

    Summer is almost here, and CJRLC has some special programs for you!

    Our Summer Time Treat Program with Dr. Dornish and Linda Braun will take place on Wednesday, July 30th! Everyone is welcome to attend this entertaining and enlightening program at Battleground Country Club. You can see both speakers and have lunch with your colleagues for $30. See p. 1 for more information. Sign up today!

    Also, if your library has made the move to Microsoft Office 2007, or if they are considering it, you’ll want to attend this program! CJRLC will hold a one-day, hands-on workshop, Office 2007: An Introduction, which will cover what’s new and what’s different in this latest version of MS Office. This is an overview and requires a basic working knowledge of windows. The program is $25 (includes lunch), on Thursday, August 14, 10:00am-2:30pm, at CJRLC. The registration flyer is available on our website.

    Fall will bring some exciting new things too! Keep your eyes out for Savvy Staff starting up and EBSCOhost 2.0 training! A new EBSCOhost interface will be released this July — you can see a preview here. Also watch for Introductory webinars!

    Of course, gaming will continue! Watch the wiki and join our gaming listserv if you’re interested! The video game world never sleeps and we will be adding some new items to the kits! Keep on playing!!

Phyllis’s Favorites for June-July

Ad*Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
Ad*Access Timeline: 1915-1955
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/
adaccess/timeline.html

Advanced Placement Digital Library
http://apdl.rice.edu

American Revolution.org
http://www.americanrevolution.org/
home.html

Ancient Greece
http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Main_Page/

Calisphere: A World of Primary Sources and More
www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/
www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/
themed_collections/

The Electronic Naturalist
http://www.enaturalist.org/

HistoricalVoices.org
http://www.historicalvoices.org/

Human Anatomy Online
http://www.innerbody.com/

InterMath
http://intermath.coe.uga.edu/

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/

Performing Arts Encyclopedia
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/
encyclopedia/

Teach Engineering: Resources for K-12
http://teachengineering.org/index.php

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Online Exhibitions
http://www.ushmm.org/
museum/exhibit/online/

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

    Our membership meeting speaker, The Rev. Bill Gaventa, spoke about how to make ourselves and our libraries more culturally sensitive. He has agreed to share his presentation and it will be posted on our website. It contained a wealth of information!

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    The second round of ALA’s Emerging Leaders program will conclude at ALA Annual in Anaheim in June. Applications for 2009 (Denver & Chicago) are posted on the ALA wiki.

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    Have you been considering using NextReads in your library? Members of the CJRLC and INFOLINK Regions can order this product at a discounted rate! Our Third Year agreement is now ready and available for download from our NextReads wiki. See the wiki for a product description.

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    We have a few ALA Read Poster CDs available at the group discount rate of $96.00. CJRLC will provide instructions for how to use this program to make customized READ posters for your library! CD box-set includes Adobe Photoshop Elements software. To order, contact carol@cjrlc.org.

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    Please sign up for programs promptly so we can be sure that programs are going to run! We know it’s a pain to commit but you can cancel if you have to!

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Getting to Know...
Heidi Bloom Leeds

    It was in March that Heidi Bloom Leeds joined CJRLC to allow Susan Buccellato the opportunity to devote her time to completing her college education. Like Susan, Heidi was a casualty of the Manalapan-Englishtown School library lay-offs, where she had been working at Milford Brook for the past six years. She is a local girl who attended the Manalapan and Freehold Township schools as a child, and returned from Long Island with her husband, after completing her BA in English, with minors in Communications and French from Hofstra University.

    It was only when she decided to volunteer in her daughter’s classroom that she realized she enjoyed being in the school environment. She joined the PTA as the library liaison and began volunteering for Esther Peck at the Milford Brook library. When Esther

and Susan moved on to the Wemrock Brook School, it was a natural step for her to move into the clerk’s job at Milford, working with Dara Hecht.

    She has 2 children: Sara, 22, who is graduating from Cook College/Rutgers University, and Jeff, 14, who will be entering Allentown High School in September. As in the past, when Sara entered Cook, Heidi became involved in the Parent’s Association and is currently the Co-President. She will continue volunteering there as long as they need her.

    Heidi enjoys music, cooking, gardening, spending time with her family, and especially reading; and one day she hopes to achieve a little quiet (which she doubts she’ll ever get with a teenager living at home!)

    She now lives in Millstone Township with her family.

Welcome, Heidi!

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