The South Brunswick Public Library and the New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center have partnered to bring the center’s no-cost, home-delivered accessible reading services to South Brunswick residents.

A number of initiatives have contributed to the recent spate of activity that is enabling the Garden State’s cultural heritage and emergency management communities to move forward together on emergency preparedness. From the Regional Emergency Response Networks project in 2012 to the creation of the New Jersey Cultural Alliance for Response network in 2014, New Jersey has been moving full speed ahead!

In honor of Dr. Seuss’s 110th birthday, the Little Egg Harbor branch of the Ocean County Library’s Read Across America program constructed a special throne for a very special princess: New Jersey Library Champion, Cara McCollum, Miss New Jersey 2013, for her visit on March 4.

The Livingston Library recently received a $750 grant from the New Jersey State Library, with funds from a Bristol-Myers-Squibb Company anti-trust settlement, to be used to honor National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. The library has used these funds to obtain a new collection of books and other materials on cancer prevention and treatment.

The New Jersey State Library and LibraryLinkNJ, the New Jersey Library Cooperative, have partnered to launch “New Jersey Library Makerspaces – The Leading Edge,” an initiative that combines equipment with community-driven innovation, and provides library patrons with the tools and space to collaborate to design and build manufactured works.

Gloucester County Library System’s Mullica Hill branch will be the first location in the county to have a 3-D printer, 3-D scanner and vinyl cutter as part of a new “Makerspace,” a collaborative learning center for the public to use.

The New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center (TBBC) and the Springfield Free Public Library have partnered to bring TBBC’s no-cost services to the library.

Atlantic City’s library has plenty of “how-to” books. Soon it will also have equipment to help patrons create things themselves.

The library is one of 15 statewide to receive a Makerspaces grant from the the New Jersey State Library and LibraryLinkNJ, the New Jersey Library Cooperative. The Atlantic City library will receive $7,500.

The Caldwell Public Library was the recipient of the 2014 MakerSpace Award from the New Jersey State Library and Library Link NJ, the Borough Council was told at Tuesday night’s meeting.

One year later article written by Marian Bauman, director of the Neptune Library, and Randy Bishop, former mayor of Neptune. 

The Atlantic City Free Public Library is one of 15 libraries statewide – and the only one in Atlantic County – to be awarded funding by the New Jersey State Library and LibraryLinkNJ, the New Jersey Library Cooperative, to develop its own Makerspace. Atlantic City teens can attend “Make AC: Dream It, Design It, Do It” in the library’s Makerspace, which is slated to open in April. The Makerspace will be located inside the Teen Space at the main library.

The New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center is providing their services to all residents of any age, who are print-disabled.

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