263:, the spreading of awareness about state legislature, and the providing of resources for school libraries and librarians. The NJLA supports intellectual freedom and their website claims that the "NJLA categorically rejects any effort to censor or remove materials from any library, based on content". They also spread awareness about state legislature as it relates to the library community. The website provides a yearly state budget update and a list of recently enacted library legislature for patrons to review. The NJLA also provides a link to a resource that assists users in finding and contacting their state legislator. In order to provide resources for school libraries and librarians, the NJLA also contains a link to the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL).
153:, served as president from 1890–1891. He had previously introduced the state library law in 1884. The original purpose of the organization was "to instill in the minds of assistants a love of the work in which they are engaged". The organization helped to promote state legislation benefiting libraries, and successfully pushed forward passage of the state Traveling Library Law for rural librarians in 1899. It helped promote the law which established the New Jersey Public Library Commission in 1900.
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235:. "We are grappling with this – we are a country at war and everyone wants to be patriotic, but they're forgetting the First Amendment," said one librarian who attended the convention. The association organizes the One Book New Jersey program, and chooses one book for each age group to promote literacy. In 2003, then-First Lady
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283:, the encyclopedia notes: "Whatever will be accomplished, it may be prophesied without fear or contradiction that the NJLA will stand in the front row when a tally is taken of effective and steadfast library supporters."
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