Events

The NJ Center for the Book is pleased to announce the winners of the Miss Rumphius Award for 2024 – Valerie Munro, Media Specialist at Hillview Elementary School, Pompton Plains and Marissa Warren, Teen Services Librarian, Princeton Public Library, Princeton. Valerie Munro’s Bookwormy program is held six times a year, once for each grade level K-5 that is focused for read more

The New Jersey Center for the Book (NJCB), an affiliate of the United States Library of Congress bestowed its coveted Literary Landmark Award upon the T.Thomas Fortune Cultural Center in Red Bank, New Jersey on Saturday, March 23, 2024. The ceremony commenced at 1:30 PM and ran concurrent with a second event called : The Black Press Expanding Exhibit: Shaping read more

The New Jersey Center for the Book has lost a valuable member of the Board when Dagmar Finkle passed away in May of 2023 in Savannah, Georgia where she recently moved. Dagmar began her career as a physical education and health teacher, and after attending Rutgers, the State University, she was certified as a school library media specialist. Dagmar was read more

The 2023 Library of Congress’s National Book Festival celebrating “Everyone Has a Story,” on Saturday, August 12, 2023 at the Convention Center in Washington D.C., was a big success, attracting a larger crowd than in 2022.  All of the 54 Centers for the Book selected a children’s book and one for an adult audience to represent their state or territory read more

After 23 years as Founding Chair of the New Jersey Center for the Book, Renee Swartz is stepping down. The Center’s Board of Directors hosted a luncheon in her honor on July 19th to thank her for her leadership, dedication, and extraordinary service over these 23 years. In 2001 New Jersey was not one of the 43 states that had a read more

The NJ Center for the Book presented its Miss Rumphius Award for 2022 to Kate Davis, Youth Services Librarian at the Jersey City Free Public Library for her program “Fun Fridays". The award was presented at a reception during the NJ Library Association’s annual spring conference. “Fun Fridays” focused on how the JCFP library could support student learning during the read more

The Omicron chapter of Beta Phi Mu, the International Library and Information Science Honor Society, at Rutgers University and the LIS Department at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information (SC&I) co-sponsored their Fall Lecture and MI Colloquium, which was held virtually over Zoom on November 11, 2021. The inspiring talk featured Jason Broughton (MLIS, MPA), who discussed the importance read more

As with all organizations over this year, the Covid-19 pandemic has made it impossible to plan for and hold new in-person programs. But with recent progress to contain the virus and new CDC recommendations, the New Jersey Center for the Book is excited to announce that it is celebrating its 20th year anniversary by presenting our Literary Landmark award to read more

The 20th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival celebrated American Ingenuity with presentations by more than 120 celebrated authors historians, and poets. About 25,000 people attended the virtual event held on September 25-27, 2020. Some of the featured authors at the virtual Festival included Jason Reynolds, Colson Whitehead, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and John Grisham. Some of the most read more

Beta Phi Mu Omicron Chapter and the Library and Information Science Department at SC&I present What Makes it Legit: Teaching Digital Verification to Spark News Literacy Learning. Using recent examples of social media rumors and misinformation, John Silva and Miriam Romais from the News Literacy Project will dive into the tools and skills LIS professionals need to verify the authenticity of read more