State Library Awards Grant for Virtual Career Center
The Long Branch Public Library has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the New Jersey State Library to implement, strengthen and expand the capability of library staff in the areas of job seeking, unemployment and related services to library customers, to include a model career center computer lab, a virtual career center and in-person as well as virtual training in the use of online resources.
The initiatives under this program will serve as a model for other libraries to replicate in their efforts to increase their ability to serve their communities during difficult economic times.
“In response to these harsh economic times, New Jersey’s libraries are not just maintaining services, but adding programs to help their community members who have lost their jobs to learn new skills, to cope with new challenges and to ease their fears,” emphasized Norma E. Blake, New Jersey State Librarian. “Long Branch Public Library’s Virtual Career Center was one of those forward-looking initiatives which we wholeheartedly support and endorse.”
The Long Branch Public Library’s Virtual Career Center is supported the New Jersey State Library, which is responsible for the coordination, promotion and funding of the New Jersey Library Network.