Winning program: Two programs designed to include audience participation were presented. One, featuring author Kristine Bowe, explored various facets of New Jersey history. The second program, by illustrator Jim McHugh, had participants envision famous New Jersey figures as super-heroes.
West Windsor Branch of the Mercer County Library Winning program: A program featuring two local historians highlighted regional features and culminated in a radio play entitled “The Wizard of Menlo Park” by Raconteur Radio.
Winning program: A Victorian tea hosted by four characters from Dickens’ Hard Times.
Joint Celebration of the 350th Anniversary with the Newark Public Library The New Jersey Center for the Book and The Newark Public Library presented a program in celebration of New Jersey’s 350th Anniversary on Saturday, January 18, 2014 at the Newark Public Library. The family morning session programs and activities offered a variety of activities for children. “The Mythmakers,” Richard read more
The New Jersey Center for the Book at the National Book Festival, 2012 The New Jersey Center for the Book participated in the Library of Congress/ National Book Festival on the great Mall in Washington, D.C. on September 22, 2012. The exhibit that the New Jersey Center for the Book brought to Washington featured the book Jazz by Walter Dean read more
The Ninth Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium Styles of Collecting, Styles of The Book, The Ninth Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium: Syles of Collecting, Styles of the Book, will be held at the John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers-Newark, in Newark, NJ, on November 7, 2003. Styles will begin by looking at the underlying principles in the practice of read more
On Saturday, December 1, 2012, Ms. Renee Swartz, Chair of the NJ Center for the Book, awarded the 2012 Miss Rumphius Award to LaDawna Harrington, school media specialist at Millburn High School, Millburn, NJ. The award was presented at the NJ Association of School Librarians Conference at the Ocean Place Resort & Spa, Long Branch, NJ. The award was presented read more
On Saturday, December 3, 2011, the NJ Center for the Book awarded the 2011 Miss Rumphius Award to Kim Zito, school media specialist at Crossroads Middle School, South Brunswick. It was presented at the NJ Association of School Librarians. Ms Zito, was the driving force behind South Brunswick’s first ever 2011 community-wide reading initiative entitled South Brunswick Reads . . . The read more
October 25, 2014 - The Cape May Bird Observatory was named a Literary Landmark by the New Jersey Center for the Book. Peter Dunne, author, lecturer and founder of the Cape May Bird Observatory accepted the award on behalf of the Observatory which recognizes the role of the Observatory as an important resource and inspiration for many environmental writers in read more
In addition to being the world’s largest collection of jazz-related materials, the Institute of Jazz Studies can add yet another distinction to its name. The New Jersey Center for the Book (NJCB) designated the Institute a New Jersey literary landmark on October 23, 2013. The award recognizes the unique collections of the Institute and the significant role they have played read more
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