LDB Events
Pass it On: Saving Heritage and Memories, Preserving Family Treasures
Ever wonder how to store old baseball cards? How to carefully handle a fragile old family photo? How to preserve your digital diary or your quilt collection? Everyone who saves things, from family mementos to world-class collections, has similar questions.
Libraries care for their vast and varied collections everyday, so they are the perfect places for learning about preservation. In recognition of this, the American Library Association will launch its first Preservation Week May 9–15, 2010. The New Jersey State Library is partnering with ALA in developing and piloting a new workshop to help your library celebrate collecting and preservation in your community, and to highlight your institution as a source of preservation information.
Preservation is a theme that can be used to bring in people and develop new audiences in your library. You do not have to be an expert in preservation to present informative programs to the public. This workshop will give you the ideas and resources you will need to develop successful preservation programming for your customers.
Participants will learn some basic preservation strategies for assisting the public in caring for their family treasures, as well as ideas for fostering preservation awareness and developing outreach programs in your community.
Possible outreach and awareness ideas include digitizing family photographs or papers, digital archiving and metadata for the home photographer, display of family treasures, sharing your family food heritage, a memories “road show,” caring for family documents, scrapbooking for posterity, organizing family collections, home movie day, quilt/wedding dress care, and disaster recovery for important family papers. Register now for what promises to be an interesting and informative workshop for library directors, preservation staff, or program/outreach managers.
Cost: $20 (covers continental breakfast and lunch)
Time: 9:30-- 3:30 workshop (9:00-9:30 Registration)
March 30: Parsippany Troy Hills Public Library
March 31: Hasbrouck Heights Public Library
April 7: East Brunswick Public Library
April 8: Cherry Hill Public Library
Space is limited. Registration and payment takes places online at: https://secure.thriva.com/Reg/Form.aspx?IDTD=1607587&IDRPH=1659115
For further information please contact Michele Stricker, Deputy Director, Library Development Bureau, New Jersey State Library at mstricker@njstatelib.org.
New Directors' Orientation Workshop
Registration is now open for the New Jersey State Library’s 2010 New Directors’ Orientation. The workshop will be held on February 17 & 24, 2010 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm each day.
This is a two-day orientation workshop for new public library directors. Registrants must attend BOTH days. The workshop will concentrate on the following areas: Library Finance and State Aid, Budgeting, Library Law, Policy and Procedure Creation and Maintenance, Library Marketing, Library Boards and more. There will also be an overview of services offered by the New Jersey State Library and the Talking Book & Braille Center. This is a great opportunity for new directors to learn the basics about their positions and to network with State Library personnel, other library professionals and new library directors from around the state.
Registration is limited to 25. The online registration process is for new directors ONLY. Branch managers may apply by calling David Lisa at 609-278-2640 ext. 191. New directors are given preference in the registration process, but branch managers are welcome to apply.
Day 1 of this FREE workshop will be held at the Talking Book & Braille Center and Day 2 will be held at the New Jersey State Library, both in Trenton, New Jersey. Lunch is included on both workshop days.
Registration: https://secure.thriva.com/Reg/Form.aspx?IDTD=1607587&IDRPH=1659115
If you have any questions, please contact David Lisa at 609-278-2640, Ext. 191 or dlisa@njstatelib.org.
NJSL Partners with NJ Libraries for the Pennies for Peace Campaign
Throughout February and March 2010, the New Jersey State Library plans to honor the legacy of Abraham Lincoln as part of the national Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commemoration. Lincoln firmly believed in education, equality, opportunity and peace. To help continue his legacy, the State Library is encouraging all New Jersey libraries to participate in the Lincoln Pennies for Peace Campaign. All funds collected will be donated to Pennies for Peace which collects funds for the Central Asia Institute co-founded by Greg Mortenson, the subject of the bestselling biography, “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School At A Time.” His newest book, “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan” is due out Dec. 1, 2009 and continues the story begun in “Three Cups of Tea.” The money collected for the Pennies For Peace Campaign will be used to build school libraries in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The New Jersey State Library encourages New Jersey school and public libraries to join this campaign:
- Register at the Pennies for Peace website. You can receive free postcards and stickers and other materials.
- Let us know too. To receive a free poster for your library and to have your library included in statewide media releases please register with the NJ State Library.
- Design a creative donation container and send in pictures for posting on the State Library Website. Either post the photos to your Flickr account and send Gary Cooper the link or send us the digital photos and he’ll post them for you.
- Get children and the community involved in contributing pennies. Pennies for Peace has lots of suggestions to get you started.
- The libraries collecting the most pennies for New Jersey libraries will receive recognition during National Library Week in April 2010.
To be eligible for this contest, libraries should collect the pennies, make a check made out to “New Jersey State Library” and send the check to the State Library by April 1, 2010. We’ll send all the checks to Pennies for Peace.
Send your check to:
Sheri Shafer, Chief Financial Officer
NJ State Library
PO Box 520
Trenton, NJ 08625-0520
Checks must be received at the State Library by April 1, 2010.
The original Pennies for Peace was conceived by students in a Wisconsin elementary school in 1996. Since then, over 16 million pennies have been raised by over 700 schools in all 50 states, including over 10 million pennies in the past year. The program is designed to educate children about the world beyond their experience and show them that they can make a positive impact on a global scale, one penny at a time. To date, the Central Asia Institute has established 130 schools, educating over 51,000 students, with an emphasis on girls’ education.
Media Inquiries: Gary Cooper
Contact for Libraries: Sharon Rawlins
