A Work In Progress

[peggycadigan]

Youth diversity hits all-time high

Libraries -who are your customers? http://news.yahoo.com/us-census-youth-diversity-hits-time-high-130724916.html

[peggycadigan]

[peggycadigan]

Groundbreaking at the Gill Memorial library, Paulsboro, NJ. Congratulations on the new addition!

[shayera-librarian]

Winner named for new Lemony Snicket librarian prize

[willywaldo]

There are Nobel winners — and now there are Noble winners. A new award — the Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced With Adversity – will be presented to Laurence Copel, the founder of the Lower Ninth Ward Street Library in New Orleans. Known to the children in her neighbo

Now this is what I call library servce! Congrats to Laurence Copei, and thanks to Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) for setting up this award.

[peggycadigan]

Lemony Snicket award- fabulous idea

[peggycadigan]

Scenes from #njla14. Hey patersonlibrary great to see Andrew Luck doing a bang-up job at Takin' it to the Streets pre-conference!

[njlibraryroadshow]

NJ Library Snapshot Day is coming on October 24! Sponsored by the NJ State Library and NJLA, Snapshot Day originated in New Jersey in 2009 to help demonstrate the importance and value of libraries, and raise public awareness that libraries are busier than ever. The goal of this effort is to provide a snapshot of what happens in a typical day in the life of NJ libraries – from checking out books and helping children with homework, to helping residents find jobs, do their taxes, start their own businesses and much more.

To make it even more exciting, we have added a new enhancement this year – the New Jersey Library Roadshow.  Inspired by OCLC and Library Journal and sponsored by LibraryLinkNJ, a team led by Andy Woodworth and Sophie Brookover, and a State Library team comprising the State Library’s Library Development Bureau and Marketing staff will travel the state, reporting in real-time on the Snapshot Day happenings.  If you would like your library to be considered for a stop on the New Jersey Library Roadshow tour, please respond by October 8th and let us know what you have planned for the day.

More information will be coming soon.  For questions about Snapshot Day, or to be considered for a Library Roadshow visit, contact Peggy Cadigan at the New Jersey State Library 609-278-2640, x113, [email protected] or Heidi Cramer at 973-733-7837, [email protected].