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Volume 3, Issue: # 13   April 20, 2010
Your Help Is Requested with Committee Appointments
We are enjoying a beautiful spring in Illinois and it is also the season when the Illinois Library Association president-elect is charged with assigning committee appointments for the following year.  The board and I welcome you and your colleagues to join with us this year in living out loud -- and that begins here and now. Think about nominations that will move us forward together, think about statewide representation, and think about our future. I am communicating with the entire membership because it is up to all of us to rededicate ourselves to Illinois libraries through our state association.

Nominations and/or self-initiated expressions of interest are invited for seats on the following committees (please click on the links below to read the committee's charge and current members):


Please share your contributions to this process by e-mailing president@ila.orgby April 30, 2010.

Appreciatively yours,


Gail Bush
2010-2011 ILA President
Remember to Vote
The ILA election polls are 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.

You can view the candidate's photos and biographical statements in two locations: on the ILA Web siteor when you are actually voting.

As of April 20:
 
of 3,076 eligible voters -- 651 have voted electronically and 38 cast paper ballots (22%).
ILA Executive Board Meeting
The ILA Executive Board met at the Alliance Library System on Thursday, 15 April and took the following actions:
  • Reviewed the association's financial statements and reaffirmed its long standing commitment to build and maintain unrestricted assets;
  • Determined to wait until the association's financial books are closed for Fiscal Year 2009-2010 before transferring any funds into the long-term investment program;
  • Accepted and inducted Burton Joseph as an Illinois Library Luminary; and
  • Approved hiring an Advocacy Consultant.
The board heard reports regarding plans for:
  • Illinois Library Day Friday, 16 April 2010 In-District Meetings with Elected Officials;
  • Go Green Illinois @ Your Library, a grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity;
  • 2010 ILA Annual Conference at Chicago's Navy Pier, September 28 - October 1, 2010; and
  • 2010-2011 Committee Appointment Process.  If you have committee recommendation(s), please click here to send an e-mail to the president@ila.org.
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New Library Will Be a Great New Chapter for Bolingbrook
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Palatine Public Library Launches a New Logo
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Artist with Local Ties Eyed for Cook Library Artwork
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Statue in Memory of Allen Meyer Dedicated at Vernon Area Public Library
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It's All About the Hat Ads at Elgin's Gail Borden Public Library
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Frankfort Public Library Proposal Gets Thumbs Up
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Libraries Offer Way to Avoid Fines
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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.

Sincerely,
Illinois Library Association
Robert P. Doyle
Illinois Library Association
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