NEW CLASSES ADDED (click on class titles for details)
Two New Classes Added for September!
- Using Facebook to Connect with Customers: Attend this hands-on workshop and learn how create a Facebook presence for your library and use that presence to effectively engage your customers.
- Web 2.0 Synergy: Putting it All Together: This session will give you a solid understanding of how the different elements of Web 2.0 can be mixed, merged, and displayed. This is a hands-on practical workshop. The instructor will guide the class through Web 2.0 sites including Twitter, Delicious, Yelp, LastFM and Friendfeed, and show how they can all be tied together in ways that save you time, and help you discover, manage, and share information.
For complete listing of classes and workshops, see: www.sjrlc.org/ce
NEXTREADS OFFER HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 1ST FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS!
www.sjrlc.org/nextreadsIf you'd like to offer cost effective way to delivery a GREAT reader's advisory service to your customers now is the time!
DUNCAN SMITH SPEAKS ON SEPT 10TH
We've extended the deadline, held prices to 2008 levels and we're bringing in Duncan Smith, creator of Novelist and NextReads, for a presentation on readers advisory on Sept 10, 2-4 pm at the Mount Laurel Library. (Click here for registration form.)
Interested in offering a great Reader's Advisory Service your customers?
Then check out our NextReads offer! See our website (www.sjrlc.org/nextreads) for details, sample newsletters, and letter of agreement.
(and yet even more) New Discounts!
SJRLC is offering many new discounts on databases for 2008 and 2009. We've just added and/or renewed these offers:
To see all discount offers, please see: www.sjrlc.org/discounts
New Discounts!
SJRLC is offering many new discounts on databases for 2008 and 2009. We've renewed many of your favorites and added many new ones too including:
Check out main discount page for a complete list of discounted databases.
There are more discount deals in the works and they'll be announced as soon as soon as they are finalized. A big thank you to Cheryl O'Connor and Mi-Sun Lyu of Infolink for coordinating the vendor discounts for the RLCs!
New Discount Offer: Gale's Virtual Reference Library
The New Jersey Regional Library Cooperative Executive Directors are very pleased to announce a new discount offer for Gale’s Virtual Reference Library collections at significant savings.
| Eligible participants: | Public, High School and Middle School Libraries |
| What: | Heavily discounted Reference E-book collection |
| Timeframe: | Order by June 1, 2008 – payments can go across three years |
| How: | ALL order details are on your Regional Library Cooperative’s website. |
For SJRLC members, details are at the Discount Offer page; or go directly to: http://access.gale.com/sjrlcebooks
WEBINAR TO LEARN MORE!
To hear more, you are invited to participate in a webinar with our Gale partner, Brian Risse, with whom we developed this offer.
Host: Brian Risse, National Sales Director – Gale Virtual Reference Library
Call Title: NJ GVRL Public Library and School Library Offer
Call Dates/Times: Wednesday, March 5, 2007, 2:00 PM (45 min length) or Friday, March 7, 2008, 10:00 AM (45 min length)
Primary Dial-In: 866-394-9513 (toll-free)
Pass code: 6389532#
To join the web conference: http://web.meetme.net/r.aspx?p=2&a=70541830175489
For a current list of alternate numbers: http://web.meetme.net/r.aspx?p=6&a=70541830175489
20% Discount offer: Playaway Audiobooks
Not an MP3 or CD player and not software, Playaway is the self-contained audio equivalent of a book. Half the size of a deck of cards, Playaway is packaged with earphones and a standard AAA battery to allow for immediate listening.
Using clearly marked buttons, Playaway gives listeners the option of placing digital bookmarks and controlling the speed of a narrator’s voice, all while easily moving both forward and back through audio book selections that can range from six to twenty-four hours.
Click here for complete details.
