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New!
To install upgrades, the computer
network the library is a part of, M.A.I.N., will
be down all day June 6. During that time the
following will be unavailable: the online
catalog, reserves, automated telephone alerts,
and automated emails. Thank you for your
cooperation and understanding. |
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New!
Friends Sponsors Digital Preservation Workshop
and Fundraiser
The Friends of the Butler Public Library will
sponsor a digital preservation session on
Saturday, June 15, 11:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. , to
help people preserve personal collections of
print, photographs, slides and
VHS, 8mm and 16mm film.
The Friends partnered with Innovative Document
Imaging (IDI), a leader in digital imaging, to
provide digital preservation services.
Materials can be brought to the library June 15,
dropped off for digitizing, preserved at IDI's
facility, or arrangements can be made for pick
up or shipping. Once scanned and digitized, all
materials with permanent digital copies on DVD
disks will be returned. Patrons can also arrange
permanent storage, if desired. Like libraries,
individuals and small businesses have valuable
collections that require careful attention to
maintain. Storing paper requires considerable
space and is expensive. Irreplaceable items can
be lost due to accidental damage, lack of
climate control, and age. IDI's Digital Memory
Media brings secure, professional preservation
services to individuals at an affordable price.
Twenty percent of all proceeds from the program
will be credited to the Friends.
Click here for price list. |
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E-Resource of the Month: Self-Help
The New Jersey
Self-Help Group Clearinghouse lists over 6,750 community
support groups. Contacts are provided for mental health and
addiction groups, plus for other groups for: most physical
illnesses, disability, bereavement, parenting situation,
caregiver concerns, traumatic experience, plus hundreds of
other stressful life situations. |
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New!
Business Card Exchange
The library is pleased to announce its latest
service – a business card exchange. Open to
businesspeople, professionals, entrepreneurs,
artisans, blue collar, white collar, the
unemployed or underemployed, participants must
be a resident of or do business in Butler. The
business card exchange is located in the library
Lobby by the book sale cart.
Participants'
cards must be in an appropriate business card
holder.
For guidelines concerning the Exchange,
click here.
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Library Events for All
Ages: |
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New!
What's My Line for May
What
Newbery Honor Winner has this opening line in
Chapter One: “Where’s Papa going with that ax?"
The last sentence: “Charlotte was both." Stop by
the library and fill out an answer form at the
Circulation Desk. All correct responders will
have their names listed next month. |
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New!
Annual Friends Membership Drive
In
our first letter we stated, "We can see our
library enhancing our community by providing a
place for cultural events, study facilities for
students of all ages, a meeting place for
friends and groups, and by enriching lives
through reading." What was a vision at that time
has become reality. The Friends help improve
and upgrade the library: the interior signs,
many pieces that contribute to the available
technology, and furniture throughout the
library. The Friends are also steady supporters
of the library's summer reading programs and
events. Please say ‘Yes’ when you receive your
annual membership form in April.
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Fine Amnesty Week
June
10 - 15
There will be no fines charged for any overdue
Butler Public Library materials returned during
the week of
June 10 – 15. Return those overdue materials
without incurring fines. Materials must be
owned by Butler Public Library. Any materials
owned by other libraries will still be subject
to fines. Already existing fines will still be
in effect. |
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Butler Public
Library Has a Nook
The library now has a preloaded Nook available for
circulation! Click
Nook
Titles
for the list of available
titles on the Nook. |
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Directions for Online Library Use of a Nook
using
http://digitallibrarynj.com
Click here
for complete directions.
Directions for Online Library Use of a Kindle
using
http://digitallibrarynj.com
Click here for complete directions |
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See our
E-Resources
page for a link for
Passport renewals and applications under U.S. Government or
Renew your Passport Online:
Click
here. |
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Volunteer
Opportunities at the Butler Library: See our Library
Director if you would like to help us out. Call
973-838-3262.
1. Help with special projects for Children's Librarian
(Cutting, gluing, tracing)
2. Teach a class to adults or teens
3. National Honor Society volunteer hours
4. Organize Book Sale Room
5. Community Service hours
6. Summer Reading Program Volunteer (Teens)
Download application form here.
7. Eagle Scout Projects for Boy Scouts
8. Gold Award Projects for Girl Scouts
9. Folding Children's Brochures |
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New
Voice Notification System
The MAIN
(Morris Automated Information Network)
Libraries now have a voice notification
system which is an automated phone call
to patrons when an item you have
requested has come in to the pick-up
library. Please be aware that you
may be receiving one of these calls from
the telephony. |
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Library
Board of Trustee Meeting
Thursday, May 2, at 8:00
P.M.
The
Library Board of Trustees will meet at the Library at 8:00
P.M. Board meetings are in an open forum to the public
and we encourage the public to attend. The Board of
Trustees meets the first Thursday evening of every month.
For more information about the Library
Board of Trustees, click
here.
Click
here
to view or print a schedule for 2013 meeting dates. |
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Proctoring Available
Are you a distance learner?
The Butler Public Library is available to
proctor your midterms and finals.
Proctoring takes place during normal library
hours; call or stop by the library to arrange. |
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Hurricane Sandy: HIRC Resource |
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In the
wake of one of New Jersey's worst natural disasters,
Jersey Click's long-time community partner EBSCO Publishing
generously donated the Home Improvement Reference Center™ (HIRC)
to libraries in the New Jersey Library Network to aid our
residents affected by Hurricane Sandy. HIRC is a resource
providing detailed, user-friendly, “how-to” information
about home improvements and repairs. The resource includes
magazine articles and reference content, as well as videos
and images designed to help homeowners tackle home repairs
safely. It provides the latest step-by-step information
along with background information and basic tips on topics
including electrical, plumbing, woodworking, outdoor
projects, maintenance and decorating.
You can access HIRC through June 30, 2013, by logging onto
www.jerseyclicks.org and scrolling down to the Home
Inprovement Reference Center. |
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The Career Cart
Need help with your resume and its cover
letter? Interviewing tips?
Contemplating going into business for
yourself or re-entering the job market?
The library's new display, The Career Cart,
helps answer these and other questions.
The books on The Career Cart circulate for
three weeks. Titles include:
"Resources for Re-entering the Job Market",
"How to Write a Business Plan", "Retire -
And Start Your Own Business", and "Cover
Letter Magic; Trade Secrets of
Professional Resume Writers." Come
check them out.
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Need a Book Recommendation? Or Keep Track of
What You Read?
Sign up
at www.goodreads.com
for book recommendations based on your ratings of other
books you have read. Keep track of all the books you
have read, are reading and want to read. Write book
reviews and read other members book reviews to find out what
to read next.
Goodreads
is free so sign up today and start reading! |
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Audiobooks & eBooks |
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Click
www.DigitalLibraryNJ.com
to download and listen to free audiobooks and eBooks
from home. All you need is your Library card number and
your PIN number to login to
www.DigitalLibraryNJ.com and
check out these free downloadable audiobooks &
eBooks. |
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