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Issue: # 35
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November 21, 2009
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iREAD Public Service Announcement is now on YouTube.
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 The iREAD committee has produced a PSA to help libraries promote summer reading in 2010. The Scare Up a Good Book! video can been seen on the ILA Web site and, new for this year, we have also placed the video on YouTube to make it an easy post to your library's Web site.
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LJ's National Rating of Public Libraries
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 Library Journal's latest national rating of public libraries, the LJ Index of Public Library Service 2009, Round 2, identifies 258 star libraries. The stars are determined by 2007 data from the IMLS. The top libraries in each group receive five, four, or three stars.
The Illinois Five Star Libraries are:
Naperville Public Library, Schaumburg Township District Library, and Arlington Heights Memorial Library.
Four Star:
Skokie Public Library, Ela Area Public Library District, Lake Zurich, and Cordova District Library.
Three Star:
Champaign Public Library, Barrington Public Library District, Fountaindale Public Library District, Bolingbrook, Hodgkins Public Library District, Forsyth Public Library, and Forreston Public Library.
Congratulations!
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Seven Biggest Barriers to Broadband Adoption in the US
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FCC outlines seven biggest barriers to broadband adoption
"The Federal Commission has listed seven big bumps in the road
towards universal use of broadband in the United States, including the
TV set-top box innovation gap and the spectrum gap. The document may be
a sneak preview of the agency's National Broadband Plan, to be released
in February."
1. The Universal Service Fund.
2. The broadband adoption gap.
3. The consumer information gap.
4. The spectrum gap.
5. The deployment gap.
6. The television set-top box innovation gap.
7. The personal data gap.
Read the whole article.
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Tech Geek Myth Busted: Top Ten Ways Technology Boosts Your Social Life
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 In 2006, a popular study by experts at Duke University and the University of Arizona
concluded new technologies have been making loners of us since 1985.
Earlier this month, this theory was challenged and perhaps debunked.
New technologies actually increase our social interactions, not our
isolation, on November 4, 2009 the Pew Internet and American Life Project reported.
10. There's been no significant jump in the number of truly isolated Americans.
9. Web users are more likely to seek counsel outside their own family.
8. Many 18-22-year-olds use social networking to keep in contact with nearly all of their key contacts.
7. Internet users like clubs.
6. Technology users have more "core" friends in their discussion networks.
5. Web users leave their rooms.
4. Cell phone and web users make better neighbors.
3. Technology users seek conversation outside their marriage.
2. Sharing those family vacation photos online might make you more politically open minded.
1. Bloggers have more racially diverse friends.
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In the News |
Jon Stewart Explains Net Neutrality
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Google Makes Concessions on Digital Book Deal
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All the Dinos 'We Could Fit'
Waukegan Library Opens New Page with Jurassic Thrills
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Librarians Reflect on Banned Books
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Mom Honors Daughter's Memory through Book Donations
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Flossmoor May Refinance Library Bonds
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Carol Stream Library Tax Up Slightly
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Plainfield's Library Looks to Cut Costs, Repair Building and Fund an Expansion
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Bookstore Is a Beachhead in Literacy Battle
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State Officials Launch Site To Fight Cyberbullying
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Indian Trails Public Library: New Director Shares Vision
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Southern Illinois University Research Affected by Budget Crisis: Hundreds of Journal Subscriptions Canceled
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Morton Grove Library Budget Maintains its Services
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Stevenson HS Student Paper Held from Publication
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If your library has a newspaper story with link, send it to us at doyle@ila.org for possible inclusion in the next ILA E-News. Thanks.
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Sincerely,
Robert P. Doyle
Illinois Library Association |
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