Selected New Jersey Resources

We have selected some useful information resources about the state of New Jersey, its people and its businesses, from government, educational and commercial information providers.
 

• Official State of New Jersey home page:

Includes information about the state government, NJ delegations to the federal government, educational institutions, NJ lottery, weather, employment, state facts. The InfoBank has lots of official information such as phone numbers, holidays, municipalities, and abbreviations.

• New Jersey Weather: 
• Quick 5-day NJ forecast
• WOI weather 
• New Jersey State Library
• New Jersey State Library NightLine 
• Search for New Jersey company information from Hoover's Online
• New Jersey Business News (from NJOnline)
• New Jersey demographic data from the US Census: 

Obtain data here for whole state or by Metropolitan Statistical Area, county, or congressional district.  Includes TIGER datamaps

• NJ daily news (Click on FastTrack, more for Central and Southern New Jersey)
• NJ Newspapers Links to local papers throughout the country but simple enter NJ for the state and it brings up a list of local NJ newspapers
• Q and A NJ online librarians a service of New Jersey Library Network

The quality of the following sites varies widely, but they are useful starting points if the above resources do not answer your question.
 

• NJ Marketplace
• NJOnline:
  Goings-on around the state, particularly entertainment, politics and weather
• NJ Resources:
  Energy
• NJ Web or Internet NJ or Fun NJ:
  News, entertainment, shopping, dining and other activities
• North Jersey Community
• World of Interest: 
  NJ news, businesses, arts and entertainment, as well as a general collection of Internet links
• Yahoo New Jersey sites: 
  Organized by topic and fairly comprehensive

 

Getting Around New Jersey:

• NJ Transit
• EZ Pass
• Newark Airport
• Port Authority


 

Library Resources:

• IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
• New Jersey Library Network
• NJSL - New Jersey State Library

 

Library Humor:

• from IFLA
• from NJSL

Provided as a public service by the New Jersey Chapter of the Special Libraries Association

 

News & Weather:

• CNN
• C-SPAN
• Fox News
• MSNBC
• Weather