New Jersey State Library

New Jersey State Library

Library Development Bureau

NJ Library Trustee Information

Trustee Manual (download here)

Additional copies of the Trustee Manual are available from the New Jersey Library Trustee Association

WebJunction Trustee Resouces: An Online Community for Library Staff & Trustees

NJ State Library Trustee Institute

"Our Trustees know the value of New Jersey libraries and have embarked on the mission to ensure that libraries will continue to be able to provide essential services to our residents. Attending The New Jersey Library Trustee Institute provides many of the tools that will help them to achieve their goals. And like New Jersey's libraries, our Library Trustees just keep getting better and better."

-NJ State Librarian Norma Blake

The New Jersey State Library, and its partners New Jersey Library Trustee Association and New Jersey Library Association, are committed to providing the highest quality of trustee education available. The Trustee Institute is part of our goal to train trustees to be knowledgeable about their responsibilities and to help them understand core competencies to improve their skills as trustees and therefore better advocate for their library. 

The next Trustee Institute will take place in Spring 2009.  This new one-day conference format, held every 18 months, will feature two separate educational tracks for both new and seasoned trustees.  Look for more information soon.

Trustee Institute Photos

Trustee Institute Handouts
(Some handouts are PowerPoint presentations and require PowerPoint to view. Click here to download the free PowerPoint viewer from Microsoft)

Advocacy & Outreach  

Friends of the Library

Fundraising

Hiring & Evaluating the Library Director

Library Finance & State Aid

Library Law

Preservation

Strategic Planning

Trustee Core Knowledge

The NJ State Library would like to thank our Trustee Institute presenters for allowing these handouts to be posted.

For questions concerning Trustee issues contact Michele Stricker, Consultant, Library Development Bureau, New Jersey State Library at 609-278-2640 Ext. 164, or email mstricker@njstatelib.org

The New Jersey Library Trustee Institute is funded in whole or part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the New Jersey State Library, an affiliate of Thomas Edison State College and from the NJLTA.

 

 

Last updated: March 3, 2008

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