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Listen as State Librarian Mary Chute discusses the upcoming 2013 NJLA Conference, taking place June 3-5, at the Revel Resort in Atlantic City. Find out why this is a conference you cannot afford to miss, and what new skills and fresh ideas you will be able to bring back to your library. Hear from NJLA Executive Director, Patricia Tumulty, joined with members of the conference planning committee.

When it comes to finding alternatives to meeting their customers’ needs, the New Jersey State Library Talking Book and Braille Center explores every option. Such was the case when one of their patrons, Elizabeth Heap, suggested to her friend Richard Muti that the book he co-authored with Charles Buckley, “The Charmer,” be made into an audio book by the National Library Service for the Blind.

An historical account of New Jersey's Constitutional Commission from 1873 might sound rather dry and, as author Peter Mazzei said at the May 1 author talk at the NJ State Library, "it is." But his research and that of his co-author Robert F. Williams, was a fascinating look that commission's influence on our state today.

The 2013 E-Summit:: Outlook, Options, Obstacles, was held at the Sheraton Eatontown on May 2.

The State Library has issued an RFQ for the statewide databases we plan to subscribe to in the Fiscal Year beginning July 1, 2013. As part of that process there is a statewide advisory committee who will be assisting with evaluating and recommending databases.

On Monday, April 8, at the Sheraton Eatontown, 6 Industrial Way East, a Disaster Recovery Summit took place sponsored by the New Jersey State Library in partnership with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine - Middle Atlantic Region, LibraryLinkNJ, and New Jersey Library Association.

The NJ State Library has organized a series of free breakfast workshops for the NJ business community at libraries across the state. Workshops have been held at the Somerset County Library headquarters in Bridgewater, with Maria Semple, Principal of The Prospect Finder (photo below left) , teaching the workshop to a packed meeting room; the Hasbrouck Heights Library, taught by Lorrie Ng (photo right), also had a capacity audience; and at the Burlington County Library Westampton Branch with Carolinn Pocher Woody (bottom photo left) of Creative Communications.

On Wednesday, April 17, from noon to 1 p.m., the New Jersey State Library will present a free lunch-time program, The Last Newspaperman with author Mark Di Ionno.