New Jersey State Library

The Library Development Bureau provides consultant services and technical assistance to create, improve and strengthen library/ information and literacy services. The bureau:

• initiates solutions to the increasingly complex problems facing libraries in New Jersey;
• coordinates resource sharing through the New Jersey Library Network, which includes:
  • four regional library cooperatives:
    Highlands RLC
    INFOLINK RLC
    Central Jersey RLC
    South Jersey RLC
  • contracts with the state's premier research libraries such as Rutgers University, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and the Newark Public Library.
• receives input from the library community through a Library Network Review Board
• administers:
  • per capita state aid to public libraries
  • state and federal grants to libraries
• recommends administrative code for libraries and state aid programs
• generates and distributes information to librarians, governing officials and the public about library/information services
• sponsors continuing education opportunities
• publishes the New Jersey Union List of Serials, a database -- used for interlibrary loan -- of journals and periodicals held by New Jersey libraries.