J.P.Jay Associates, Inc.

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Barrett Friendly Library
P.O. Box 604
Mountainhome, PA 18342
570 595-7171
April 23, 2008

To Whom It May Concern:

       During the past five years, the board of trustees and I have been on a long, time consuming and work intense journey to build a new library in the northeast corner of Monroe County. Our lives have been consumed with capital fundraising, special events, and planning meetings.
       It has been our pleasure to work with J.P. Jay Associates Inc. We investigated several companies before engaging J.P. Jay. The company had been highly recommended to us by Carol Kern, library director at Western Pocono Community Library, Brodheadsville, PA. She is a highly respected and trusted colleague.
       We met with Jim Malise and Christine Erdossy for the first time in January 2006. My board president, Carol Hillestad and I were impressed with their expertise and their ability to listen to our needs. After the initial meeting, Christine Erdossy quickly supplied us with answers to our preliminary questions. After receiving our floor plan from our architect, Ms. Erdossy developed display boards to help us visualize the furnishings and begin the selection process. Both Ms. Erdossy and Mr. Malise have always been professional, friendly, adaptable to our concerns and able to find beautiful furnishings within our budget.
       In the last week, our furniture and shelving has been arriving. We are very pleased with the installation process, and the beauty and workmanship of the furniture. Our library does not have a maintenance staff; we needed a full service organization, which would install the shelving and leave the library turnkey ready. J. P. Jay is that kind of organization.
       On behalf of the library, I heartily recommend J.P. Jay Associates. It has been a pleasure to work with both Jim and Christine throughout the entire process.
We look forward to moving to the new library in the next month and enjoying the results of our collaboration.
       If I may be any assistance to you, please contact me by phone or email; my email address is brfpubli@ptd.net.

Sincerely yours,
Cindy DeLuca
Library Director

Featured Products
	Palmieri’s P2 P2 offers an exciting new look for the library while offering total flexibility. To see the complete line, please visit www.p2workspacesolutions.com
	MJ’s System 3000 System 3000 is the bookstack choice for the majority of prestigious libraries being built today. No longer does the library have to settle for the steel bookstack of the 1960's and 1970's. To view the complete line, visit www.mjshelving.com
	MJ’s Escalook Escalook is MJ's answer for multi-media.

Since 1980, J. P. Jay Associates has been assisting the library community with designing (floor layouts) and furnishing their libraries. Our team of professionals provides public, university, K-12 and special libraries with the finest furniture and shelving solutions.

Some of the services we offer include:

Space planning
Layout design and development
Schedules of equipment
Specifications
CAD drawings
Budget projections
Shop drawings
On site modifications
On-staff installer
Warehouse facility

Perfection is our only acceptable goal. Please contact us for a list of users who would be more than happy to confirm this

Shelving

System 3000

System 3000 is the industry's most advanced and cost effective single-slot library shelving system offering many benefits over traditional welded frame or wood shelving.

Some of these benefits are a narrower footprint with no overhead bracing or floor fastening, additional storage space due to single slot design, thicker shelves which prevent shelf deflection over time, hundreds of accessories to store various collections easily, and the system can grow in height over time.

Some additional benefits of System 3000 is the snap together design allows for faster installation and greater flexibility for reconfiguration, can accommodate any style or type of end panels or be installed without end panels, and can be installed with an open base. With other types of shelving, a closed base is required.

System 1000

System 1000 is your basic welded frame design. While it doesn’t have all the capabilities of System 3000 it can be free standing with no overhead bracing or floor fastening as long as the base shelf is deeper than the adjustable shelves. It also has several accessories for different types of collections such as hinged and fixed periodical shelves, divider shelves, sloped multimedia shelves, pull out reference shelves along with the standard flat shelf.

This type of shelving can also be installed quickly, reconfigured easily and can accept many different styles and types of end panels.

ESCALOOK

Escalook is MJ’s latest addition to their ever growing product line. It’s designed for displaying CD’s, DVD’s, periodicals and new books and some advantages of Escalook are:

Easy accessibility of visual media due to the sloping nature of the shelving.
All units are mounted on caster so they can easily be moved to different areas of the library.
Component parts can be easily added and displayed at the ends of the ranges.

PALMIERI DURECON

Along with Palmieri’s various lines of furniture, they also manufacture both wood and wood/metal shelving. Their shelving comes standard with a flat wood end panel; however, they manufacture end panels to match each of their lines of furniture.

Palmieri Durecon Wood
Benefits:

Warmth & elegance
Stability
Field Modifiable

Palmieri Durecon Wood Metal
Benefits:

Warmth & elegance
Ability to add color
Cost savings

Tables And Carrels

Tables and carrels come in literally dozens of designs; some all wood, some with wood and metal and some with even 3-Form acrylics and wood. J. P. Jay Associates represents some of the manufacturers of wood furnishings you would recognize from attending ALA exhibits as well as custom manufacturers when specialty items are needed in small quantities. Today’s library furniture is done in numerous species of wood with table tops made of wood veneer, high pressure laminate, Marmoleum and even glass.

Lehigh Valley College Center Valley, PA ABS round table with lamp	Arcadia University Glenside, PA Palmieri Aspen Style table with Jasper 2000 series chair.
Hood College Frederick, M.D. Palmieri Princeton panel base style table with Community Boston Style	Lehigh Carbon Community College Schnecksville, PA Palmieri modified Fusion Style
Chaska County Library Chaska, MN TMC Trestle base table	Green Hills Public Library Nashville, TN TMC Kestrel table and Plover Chairs
The Agnes Irwin High School Rosemont, PA Crane Collection table with Sewickley chair.	Lehigh Carbon Community College Schnecksville, PA Palmieri modified Fusion Pac table and KI Kismet chair.
Wesley College Dover DE Palmieri Monaco style OPAC table and Jasper 170 series chair	Ursinus College Collegeville, PA Precise Graphix custom study carrel.
Montgomery Floyd Regional Library Christiansburg, VA TMC Wheatland style Carrel. Study carrel.

Children's Furniture

TMC's line of children's furniture can brighten up any area of the library with bright wood finishes, fun cut outs and cute perimeter cut outs. Even their lounge furniture is the perfect size for the little ones to sit and read. They even offer a chair and a half for parents to sit with their child to read.

Lower Southampton Public Library Feasterville, PA TMC Lorca style reading table with Lorca style chairs.	Germantown Public Library Germantown, MD TMC custom displayers.
Germantown Public Library Germantown, MD TMC Arcadia style carrel and Kestral chair	Green Hills Branch Nashville, TN TMC Kestrel stye reading table with plover style chairs.
Bordeaux Branch TMC Lorca style OPAC table with lorca style chairs	Tuckahoe Public Library Richmond, VA TMC double-sided book bin.

Circulation Desks

Like end panels, circulation and information desks have the ability to give your library a traditional or modern theme or a simple feel with the use of different materials and designs. Again with the use of our custom millwork facilities, we have the capabilities to manufacture any design that can be thought up. If a custom desk isn't what you're looking for, Palmieri Furniture also manufactures standard desks with standard components. We like to take the time to sit down with the library staff to layout the entire desk to be sure it meets everyone's needs and is functional.

Fairfax City Regional Library Fairfax, VA	Memorial Library of Radnor Township Wayne, PA
Montgomery Floyd Regional Library Christiansburg, VA	Juniata College Huntingdon, PA
Hampden-Sydney College Hampden-Sydney, VA	Easton Area Public Library Easton, PA
Easton Area Public Library Easton, PA

Compact Shelving

High density compact shelving is a necessity in any library where floor space is a problem. The use of high density compact shelving can more than double shelf space when compared to freestanding shelving.

St. Mary's Seminary
Baltimore MD

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Wyncote, PA

DuPont
Newark, DE

Moravian College
Bethlehem, PA

Green Tree Public Library
Pittsburgh, PA

Conventional Library

65 Faces of Bookstack	Seating for 10
455 Shelves	1 Reference Desk
6,825 Volumes

Compact Shelving

75 Faces of Bookstack	Seating for 14
525 Shelves	6 Lounge Chairs
7,875 Volumes	1 Reference Desk

Display Furniture

Cleve J. Fredericksen Public Library
Camp Hill, PA
A/V Displayer

Cleve J. Fredericksen Public Library
Camp Hill, PA
Octagon Displayer

Elizabeth Public Library
Elizabeth, NJ
Glass Top Displayer

Suffern Public Library
Suffern, NY
Pyramid Displayer

Horsham Township Library
Horsham, PA
MJ Industries System 3000 Zig Zag Displayers

Below is a partial users list of just a few of our satisfied clients.

PUBLIC LIBRARIES:

Sewickley Public Library
Western Pocono Community Library
Cleve J. Fredricksen Public Library
Southern Lehigh Public Library
Guthrie Memorial Library – Hanover’s Public Library
Parkland Community Library
Hoyt Library
Barrett Paradise Friendly Library
Southern Lehigh Public Library
Dauphin County Library System

McCormick Riverfront Library
Madeline L. Olewine Memorial Library
East Shore Area Library

Fulton County Library
Horsham Township Library
Laurel Public Library
Tredyffrin Public Library
Bucks County Public Library
Northern Tier Regional Library
Norwin Public Library
Scottdale Public Library
Green Tree Public Library
Northland Public Library

SCHOOL LIBRARIES:

Pocono Mountain High School
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
Milton Hershey School
Thomas Mifflin Elementary School
Dr. Ethel Allen School
George School
South Mountain Middle School
Roosevelt Elementary School
Swiftwater Elementary School
Hopewell Elementary School
Wilmington Friends School
The Agnes Irwin School

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES:

Arcadia University
Lehigh Carbon Community College
Ursinus College
College Misericordia
Lehigh University
Allegheny College
Harrisburg Area Community College

Lancaster Campus
York Campus
Gettysburg Campus
Lebanon Campus

University of the Arts
Lancaster Bible College
Drexel University
Temple University
St. Joseph’s University

COMPACT SHELVING:

Moravian College
Lehigh University
Swarthmore College
Lincoln University
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Mercyhurst College
Allegheny College
Arkansas Studies Institute

*Please contact us for a more complete users list or contact information on any of the above.

	At Palmieri, an engineering team continually expands their range of standard collections, while liasing with individual clients to create custom designs and modifications. Their Veneering department ensures the crucial step that many of our competitors can't deliver: selecting and laying-up premium-grade veneers and solids by hand. Select, ready-cut veneers in oak, cherry, maple and mahogany are flitch-inventoried to allow ready production.
	TMC combines experienced, skilled craftsmanship with cutting-edge innovation in our seating, tables, shelving, carrels, fully-accessorized workstations, modular lounge pieces, book-bins, display units, circulation/reception desks and custom casegoods. Whether you are looking for clean, sophisticated, modern styling, classically traditional dsign - or fancy seeing a frog peer over a shelf - TMC Furniture simply inspires.
	MJ Industries is today’s solution for the modern library’s shelving needs. MJ offers not only traditional welded frame shelving which has been used since the 60’s, but more modern products and designs such as System 3000 and Escalook. With changes in media and technology, today’s libraries need flexibility and with the many accessories available, MJ’s System 3000 is the product of choice. MJ’s latest introduction is Escalook which answers all audio visual and new book display needs.
	Community manufactures some of the finest seating available. They have dozens of designs and will match finishes all at a price point that is very attractive. Hundreds of libraries have selected Community for there seating needs. When selecting a chair that has to last 30 plus years Community is the answer.
	Precise manufactures custom wood and laminate furniture and end panels. One of their many specialties is circulation, reference and information desks. Their designers are available to assist in the process of making the library a unique setting. All species of wood and special finishes are welcome.
	Elecompack has been manufacturing high density shelving since the 1960’s. The Elecompack product is manufactured the way high density shelving used to be made and should still be made. There is no safer system on the market.