Status of NJ State Library and Statewide Cooperative Supported Services
July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011
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 throughout the New Jersey Library Network, which includes:
- the New Jersey State Library
- the statewide cooperative INFOLINK
- over 2,000 network members, including academic, institutional, public, school and special libraries
- receives input from the library community through a Library Network Review Board
- administers:
- 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.
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