Library Trustees - New Jersey State Library

Being a library trustee means that you have been entrusted with the welfare of an important community institution capable of serving everyone in your community. A trustee’s first loyalty is to the library and the community it serves.

Library Trustee Resources (PDF)

Annual Trustee Letter (PDF)
Orientation Check List for New Trustees (Word)
Library Structure and Funding

Slides

Library Law for Trustees (PowerPoint) – Michael Cerone, Esq.
Roles and Responsibilities of Trustees (PowerPoint) – Pat Tumulty
Working with Elected Officials (PDF) – Catherine Alloway
Library Policy Making (PDF) – Eric Stroshane
Hiring and Evaluating the Library Director – Maura Deedy
Community Focused Strategic Planning by Alliance Research and Training (YouTube) – February 7, 2024 – Slides (PDF)
Intellectual Freedom and Materials Challenges – What You Need To Know (YouTube) – March 22, 2022
Public Library Material Challenge and Intellectual Freedom (PowerPoint)
Challenges – What Trustees Need to Know (PowerPoint)

Trustees on Track (YouTube)

This collection of eight videos features library trustees sharing their experiences and thoughts on topics that every library board across the country faces.

ALA United for Libraries

On February 1, 2009, Friends of Libraries U.S.A. (FOLUSA) and the Association for Library Trustees and Advocates (ALTA) joined forces to become an expanded division of ALA known as the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations, now United for Libraries. Through this partnership, United for Libraries brings together libraries voices to speak out on behalf of library services and free public access to information.

United for Libraries is a national network of enthusiastic library supporters who believe in the importance of libraries as the social and intellectual centers of communities and campuses. No one has a stronger voice for libraries than those who use them, raise money for them, and govern them. By uniting these voices, library supporters everywhere will become a real force to be reckoned with at the local, state, and national levels.