Archive for March, 2008

Three NJ Librarians Receive National Awards

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Congratulations to three New Jersey librarians that have received national recognition!Connie Paul, executive director, CJRLC was named the 2008 co-recipient of the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA) Leadership and Professional Achievement Award presented by the ASCLA, a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

Peter Bromberg, Assistant Director, South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative and Elisabeth Jacobsen Marrapodi, Director, Library Services, Trinitas Hospital have been named 2008 Movers and Shakers by Library Journal.

Links to LJ articles, photos and blogs: http://newsletter.njstatelib.org/

The Demise of the Print Encyclopedia

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

“A series of announcements from publishers across the globe in the last few weeks suggests that the long migration to the Internet has picked up pace, and that ahead of other books, magazines and even newspapers, the classic multivolume encyclopedia is well on its way to becoming the first casualty in the end of print.”

For the full article, see the New York Times, March 16, 2008