Using HeritageQuest Effectively:
Search Tips for Each Section
Presenter: John Shaw, Genealogy Librarian
Learn some basic but not so
obvious techniques for searching the six types of documents in HeritageQuest:
U.S. census schedules, books (22,000 family and local histories), PERSI
(find out what it is), Revolutionary War records, Freedman's Bank records
and the U.S. Serial Set.
Date: February 20, 2008 @ 12-1
p.m.
Location: New Jersey State Library, Technical Training
Center, Level 5
Searching Basics
Presenter: Deborah Mercer, N.J. Collections Librarian
Find out how to choose the best database for your needs, how to use databases
to get the best results, and how to get the most from State Library services.
Date: February 28, 2008 @ 12-1 p.m.
Location: New Jersey State Library, Technical Training Center, Level
5
Can I Get That from Home? Downloadable
Audio Books @ the New Jersey State Library
Presenter: Edith Beckett, Cataloger
Looking for something to listen to during your commute? Why not try an
audio book? State employees can learn how to download best selling titles
24/7 to a PC, laptop, or PDA at home, in the office, or from anywhere in
the world. Now your library never closes!
Date: March 5, 2008 @ 10-11 a.m.
Location: New Jersey State Library, Technical Training Center, Level
5
Exploring the Online Health Resources
of the New Jersey State Library
Presenter: Martha Sullivan, Health Librarian
An overview of the New Jersey State Library's health databases will be presented
along with some basic search tips. Also learn how to find out if the library
has an article you need, and how to request publications easily and efficiently.
Date: March 14 , 2008 @ 11-12 noon
Location: New Jersey State Library, Technical Training Center, Level
5
Searching
Lexis
Presenter: Tom O'Malley, Law Librarian
This workshop teaches you how to use the free Lexis access available in
the Law library. From signing in to navigating the database, to getting a
broad picture of the database content, you will learn it all. How to construct
a search using terms and connectors or natural language and how to print,
download or e-mail the results of your search will be demonstrated.
Dates: March 19, 2008 @ 12-1 p.m. or March 20, 2008 @ 1-2 p.m.
Location: New Jersey State Library, Technical Training Center, Level
5
The Origins of the New Jersey State
Library-Early Acquisitions, 1703-1800
Presenter: John Shaw, Genealogy Librarian
Discover why the library claims 1796 as its date of founding and take a
peek into the vault at some of the early treasures. During the short presentation
you will see some of the actual books that were accquired by the New Jersey
Legislature during the colonial period and early statehood that formed the
beginnings of the collection of the New Jersey State Library. Among the dozen
or so books on display will be the earliest American imprint in the collection
(1704), the library's "first book" presented to the Assembly by
the Governor in 1738, an early set of the Statutes at Large acquired
in 1742 with handwritten notations by the Assembly's clerk, and a collection
of laws from the proprietary period edited by Leaming and Spicer and published
in 1758.
Dates: March 25, 2008 @ 12-1 p.m. or March 26, 2008 @ 1-2 p.m.
Location: New Jersey State Library