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Links of interest for Administration & Management Section

INTERNET RESOURCES FOR LIBRARY ADMINISTRATORS

Civil Service

The NJ Department of Personnel’s home page, “Your Public Employment Gateway”, is a good starting point for job announcements, job descriptions, title code searches, forms, regulations, laws and information about Human Resources Development Institute training programs.

http://www.state.nj.us/personnel/index.html

Disaster Preparedness and Disaster Recovery

“Are You Ready: An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness” is a useful tool for libraries to use in preparing for disasters of all types.

http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/

ALA’s information about disaster preparedness and disaster recover is at:

http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/disasterpreparedness/distrprep.htm

New Jersey Library Laws

The Library Development Bureau of the NJ State Library has put all of the NJ library laws online at:

http://www.njstatelib.org/LDB/Library_Law/index.php

New Jersey Library Statistics

NJ library statistics from 2001 – 2005 are also on the Library Development Bureau’s web pages. (The statistics are in spreadsheet format.)

http://www.njstatelib.org/LDB/Statistics/

“Pay to Play” Law

Information about the “Pay to Play” law can be found on the Division of Local Government Services website. The site includes sample forms, an FAQ, updates and a decision tree that can help libraries determine which course of action to take when purchasing.

http://www.nj.gov/dca/lgs/p2p/

PEOSHA – PEOSHA stands for the Public Employees Occupational Health and Safety Act. The requirements of this legislation are administered by two departments of state government:

• The NJ Department of Health and Seniors Services investigates complaints about health hazards in the workplace

• The NJ Department of Labor investigates complaints about safety hazards in the workplace.

Included on this web site are guidelines, checklists, training information and instructions and forms for filing complaints:

http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/peoshweb/

Public Employees Retirement System – The PERS website includes links to an online Member Handbook, schedules of retirement seminars and a Retirement Planning Handbook.

http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/pensions/pers1.htm

Records Retention Schedules

The Bureau of Records Management creates Records Retention Schedules for all public records. These schedules list the minimum legal and fiscal time periods that various public records must be retained by state and local governmental and educational agencies. This link takes you to the list of schedules:

http://www.njarchives.org/links/retention.html

Right to Know – Keep your library compliant with Right to Know requirements by consulting the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services’ site. On the site you will find Right to Know regulations, Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets and an FAQ document.

http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/

State Contract Information:

The NJ Department of the Treasury, Division of Purchase and Property oversees the state contract process. This link takes you to the search screen for current state contracts:

http://www.nj.gov/treasury/purchase/contracts.htm