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Volume 3, Issue: # 11
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April 8, 2010
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Illinois Library Day, Friday 16 April
Recommendations for the In-District Visits
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How do you best prepare? What are the talking points? ILA Legislative Consultant Kip Kolkmeier will present a briefing session on Monday, 12 April, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. via OPAL. To register, please click here.
Click here to check out Sarah Long's Podcast with Kip on Illinois Library Day.
How do you establish a good relationship with your elected officials? Click here for tips.
When visiting your elected officials use the statistics, photos, and comments from Snapshot Day. Click here for a form to use to report this information.
Take a copy of Snapshot! One Day in the Life of Illinois Libraries.
Let us know your experiences. The ILA Advocacy Committee is asking library directors to electronically report the Advocacy Impact of Snapshot Day and your In-District Visits.
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National Library Week is April 11-17
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The American Library Association has prepared a toolkit with press releases, PSA messages, Web site buttons, and activity suggestions. Please use this opportunity to share how "Communities Thrive @ your library." PSA messages are easy to download and it a takes just a few minutes to add local information to the press release template. Check with your local radio stations and media outlets to see how they prefer delivery.
Check out National Library Week suggestions and build awareness for all that your library has to offer.
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Future of Illinois Library Cooperation: April Update
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 Three task forces on Services, Structure, and Funding began contacting members in March and plan to start meeting in April. Task force co-chairs have proposed a working list of "core services" that address delivery of both physical and digital information, advocacy, as well as library and professional development. These are all areas of some cooperative activity at present, and task forces will examine the current situation, future needs, and the most economic means of continuing to provide critical services. We anticipate the task forces will continue to refine the concept of "core services" as they do their work.
The next scheduled report from the task forces will be to the ILA Executive Board at its June or July meeting. For additional background information, see the ILA Web site.
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Remember to Vote
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The ILA election polls are now open. All
ILA personal members should have received a link to the electronic
ballot or a paper ballot in the mail by now. Please click here to let Kristy Mangel know if you
have not
received a ballot. |
OCLC's How Libraries Stack Up: 2010
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 The OCLC information may be useful to librarians
as they develop budget
proposals or discuss the value of library services with their elected officials on Friday, 16 April in-district visits. Two versions of the report are available for download;
one in color and one optimized for black-and-white printing.
The report includes statistics such as: - U.S. public libraries circulate as many materials every day as FedEx ships packages worldwide.
- Every year, Americans visit the library more often than we go to the movies and six times more often than we attend live sporting events (includes professional and NCAA football, baseball, basketball and hockey).
- More public libraries offer free meeting rooms than there are conference centers, convention facilities and auditoriums combined.
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In the News |
Glen Ellyn Library Renovations Go to BidTo continue reading about this story, click here.Aurora University Students Enter 'The Quiet Zone"To continue reading about this story, click here. TB Outbreak Worries Aurora Library EmployeeTo
continue reading about this story, click here.
New OCLC Report "Research Libraries, Risk and Systemic Change"To continue reading about
this story, click here.
New IMLS Report "A Third of Americans Use Library Computers for Employment, Health, and Education"
To
continue reading about
this story, click here.
Aurora Paves the Way for Future Construction of New Downtown LibraryTo continue reading about
this story, click here.
Colona District Public Library's Mural Included in American Libraries Annual Library Design ShowcaseTo
continue reading about this story, click here.
Melrose Park Public Library Restoration of Airmail Fresco Now Complete To
continue reading about this story, click here. Eye-Tracking Tablets and the Promise of Text 2.0To
continue reading about this story, click here.Naperville Library to Offer Voluntary BuyoutsTo
continue reading about this story, click here. Burton Joseph, Illinois Lawyer in First Amendment Cases, Freedom to Read Foundation Board Member, and Counsel to ALA on Communications Decency Act, Dies at Age 79To continue reading about this story, click here. Sex Offender Library Ban in New Mexico Declared UnconstitutionalTo continue reading about
this story, click here. Park Ridge City Council Orders Another $110,000 in Library CutsTo continue reading about
this story, click here. 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. |
Sincerely,
Robert P. Doyle
Illinois Library Association |
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CALENDAR
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Register online now for the following workshops: 2010 Youth Services Forum Workshops Reaching Forward Conference |
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