Library Development Bureau

The staff of the Library Development Bureau provide consultant services and technical assistance to create, improve and strengthen library/ information and literacy services. The bureau's staff: investigate actions and solutions to the increasingly complex challenges facing libraries in New Jersey; coordinate resource sharing through the New Jersey Library Network; contracts with the state's premier research libraries such as Rutgers University, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and the Newark Public Library to provide specialized reference and interlibrary loan resources; receives input from the library community through the statewide Library Network Review Board; administers per capita state aid to public libraries and state and federal grants to libraries. They also recommend administrative code for libraries and state aid programs and generate and distribute information to librarians, governing officials and the public about library/information services.