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The New Jersey Association of School Librarians advocates high standards for librarianship and library media programs in the public, private and parochial schools in New Jersey to ensure that students and staff become effective users of information. The Association fosters excellence in the school library media program by providing school librarians/media specialists with educational opportunities and current information through mentoring, online and print publications, workshops, and conferences.
   

 

NJASL Sponsors ALA's Emerging Leader's Program

Rutgers SCILS Professional Development Studies

Rutgers University's School of Information, Communication and Library Studies offers a number of professional development courses each semester. Many of these are distance learning offerings.

NJ Professional Education Port

A major goal of this exciting professional development site is to support teachers and the entire educational community in the understanding and implementation of the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards and their related statewide assessments at 4th, 8th and 11th grades. 



AASL Professional Development Calendar

This calendar lists events and conferences throughout the country, as well as dates for nationally recognized weeks such as Children's Book Week, National Library Week, and others.

Association for Educational Communications and Technology

The mission of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology is to provide international leadership by promoting scholarship and best practices in the creation, use, and management of technologies for effective teaching and learning in a wide range of settings.

CISSL: Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries Leading researchers and professionals work together to create school libraries that spark learning in information age schools around the world. CISSL is a global hot spot for school library action, where the synergies of school libraries, inquiry learning, literacies and information technology spark ideas, research, innovation and scholarship.

http://cissl.scils.rutgers.edu/docs/pledge_card.pdf

International Association of School Librarianship (IASL)

The mission of the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) is to provide an international forum for those   people interested in promoting effective school library media programs as viable instruments in the educational process.

Library of Congress
Links to the Learning Center of the National Digital Library Program (NDLP), American Memory primary sources, and a public online access catalog (OPAC).


NJASL New Librarian Mentoring

The mission of the Mentoring Program for the New Jersey School Library Media Specialists (SLMS) is to assign an established Mentor, for one year, to work with a new School Library Media Specialist to help acclimate them on how to effectively operate and support a school library media program. They will guide them as they develop their own unique and pivotal role within the learning community of their school district. It is hoped that through this collaboration the new School Library Media Specialist will be able to develop and carry out their own vision for a student-centered library media program that is based on the three central ideas from Information Power : collaboration, leadership, and technology.
For more information, contact:

emanjmentor@mtlakes.org
slk144@aol.com

slemmerip@yahoo.com
 


Listservs
A "listserv" is an online discussion group that you can subscribe to (for free!). They provide a source of ongoing professional development between colleagues worldwide!

NJASL

Reach out to your fellow New Jersey media specialists through NJASL's very own listserv.
 

LM NET
A discussion group for library media specialists that will connect you with over 7,000 colleagues worldwide. A source for sharing ideas and resources, solving problems, and seeking assistance and information.


Regional Library Cooperatives

CJRLC: Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative
Serving the counties of Mercer, Monmouth, and Ocean.

HRLC: Highlands Regional Library Cooperative, a non-profit, multi-type library cooperative serves the counties of Bergen, Hunterdon, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex and Warren.

Infolink: The Eastern New Jersey Regional Library Cooperative

Members are libraries and library-related agencies located in Essex, Hudson, Middlesex and Union counties.

SJRLC: South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative is a multi-type library membership organization including over 600 academic, institutional, public, school, and special libraries in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem Counties.