ILA Urges Illinois Library Community to CALL Their Federal Legislators and Ask Public Libraries be Included in the Economic Stimulus Package
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 Ask your Representative in the House to amend H.R. 1 page 248, line 3 to read as follows: SEC. 1302. State Uses of Funds.
(b) Other Government Services.
For each fiscal year, the Governor
may use up to 39 percent of the State's allocation under section 1301
for public safety and other government services, which may include
assistance for elementary and secondary education, public institutions
of higher education and public libraries.
 Ask your Senator to amend S.1, Page 396, line 13to read as follows: SEC. 1402. State Uses of Funds.
(b) Other Government Service
The Governor may use up to 39
percent of the State's allocation under section 1401 for public safety
and other government services, which may include assistance for
elementary and secondary education, public institutions of higher
education and public libraries.
By including the words "and public libraries" to this legislation,
libraries would have access to funding that is critical to libraries'
continuation of the services that our communities so desperately depend
on.
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iREAD Orders for Summer 2009: Read on the Wild Side
 The mailing out of summer reading materials will begin this week! So please expect to receive your order within the next two or three weeks.
How you can still get iREAD 2009: Read on the Wild Side products:
If you have not placed your order or if you need more products, please place your iREAD at the new and improved online store (https://iread.ila.org). The online store features an easy to use shopping cart that contains the supporting products for the 2009 theme: Read on the Wild Side! The product graphics enlarge when clicked, giving you a great look at the wonderful illustrations created by Patrick Girouard, for children and Gene Ha, for young adults. |
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Pritchard Chosen to Serve as Editor of portal
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 Sarah M. Pritchard has taken over as editor of the academic journal portal: Libraries and the Academy with the January 2009 issue. Pritchard is the Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian at Northwestern University.
The Johns Hopkins University Press is the publisher for portal, which examines the role of libraries in meeting institutional missions, explores how technology affects librarianship and scholarship, and conveys this research to academic librarians in a timely manner. For more information on portal, please click here.
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In the News
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Bucking the Trend, Plainfield Library Board Considers Expansion Referendum
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New Streamwood Library not a 'Warehouse for Books'
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Library Pals Match English Language Learners
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