NJASL Sponsors ALA's Emerging Leader's Program (pdf)

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, literacy and information technology spark ideas, research, innovation and scholarship.
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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.