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Library Trustees

The NJ State Library (NJSL) offers dedicated consulting services to support library trustees in effectively governing their libraries.

This resource hub will provide updated guidance, training materials, and best practices tailored to help trustees fulfill their responsibilities with confidence.


Continuing Education (CE) Training

Continuing Education (CE) Training by the NJ State Library (NJSL). Features an image of two people sitting at a table on laptops, training at their library.

NJSL offers a variety of CE Training opportunities for New Jersey librarians, library support staff, and trustees.

Features both NJSL-created and licensed content on a broad range of topics designed to help you fulfill your responsibilities and to grow professionally.

Our top priority is to help you grow, develop, and never stop learning.


Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning image of two people working at a table, with only their hands shown, holding a pen, and writing in notebooks. Features the NJSL logo.

NJSL supports strategic planning as a management tool to determine a library’s mission, vision, values, goals and objectives, roles and responsibilities, and to determine benchmarks and timelines that will shape the library’s future.


New Jersey Library Trustee Guide

The New Jersey Library Trustee Guide offers information to assist New Jersey’s public library trustees in their responsibilities.


Do You Still Have Questions?

Contact the Library Development Bureau at NJSL: pcsa@njstatelib.org

The NJ State Library will be closed on Thursday May 14, 2026, to walk in visitors. Reference services will be available via email (refdesk@njstatelib.org) and phone (609-278-2640, ext. 103) during operating hours 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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