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The Conference Program Book is Now on the ILA Web Site.
ILA Career Clinic
Free resume review available at
Annual Conference
Looking for a job or
polishing your resume? This year's ILA Annual Conference will include a
resume review clinic. The Career Clinic will be located in the Exhibit
Hall on September 29 and 30. Candidates will receive free advice on how
they can improve their resumes from librarians who have experience with the
hiring process. Each session will be 25 minutes long.
Those who are not attending the Annual Conference, but wish to participate in
the Career Clinic can obtain a complimentary exhibits pass at the ILA
Registration Desk at Navy Pier. Exhibits will be open Wednesday, September
29, from 12:30 to 7:00 p.m., and Thursday, September 30, from 10:00 a.m. to
2:00 p.m. Please note the exhibits will not be open on Tuesday, September
28.
For more information or to
register for a time slot, please contact Denise Zielinski at ila@ila.org.
Don't Wait, Wait...There's Still Time!
Purchase Your Illinois Authors' Dinner Tickets
A limited number of tickets remain for the Illinois Authors' Dinner on Tuesday, September 28. Don't miss this opportunity to hear Peter Sagal discuss "Why Satire is the Only Reasonable Response to the Times in Which we Live" and meet these fabulous Illinois authors:
Bill Barnhart,
Terra Brockman, Laurie Brown, Laura Caldwell, Norm Cowie, Emily Ecton, Sharon Fiffer, Beth Finke, Al Gini, Alan Goldsher, Libby
Fischer Hellman, Kate Hannigan Issa, Andrea Jones, Barbara Jones, Matt Jordan, James
Kennedy, K.S.Krueger, Patricia Kummer, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Diane Gilbert
Madsen, Frances McNamara, Patricia Murphy, Patricia Orvis, Taylor Pensoneau, Janet
Piehl, Elsa Prado, Robert Rodriguez, Sara F. Shacter, and Patricia Tunstall.
Please email ila@ila.org to purchase tickets, by Tuesday, September 21. Tickets will not be available for purchase on site.
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Public Librarians Your Help Is Requested
| At the last Public Policy Committee meeting, the following two questions were raised:
According
to your fiscal 2009/10 audit, did your library run a deficit?
Is
your library using its Special Reserve Fund to keep from running deficit
spending?
Please click here and submit your responses in Survey Monkey.
Thank you!
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Celebrate the Freedom to Read at the Banned Books Week Read-Out
| The American
Library Association will kick-off Banned Books Week, a time when the nation
celebrates the freedom to read, with a "Read-Out!" event in Chicago, from Noon
- 2:00 p.m. at the historic Bughouse Square (Washington Square Park, 901 N Clark
St.), across from the Newberry Library, on Saturday, Sept. 25.
Participating authors will sign free copies of their latest works at 2:00 p.m.,
and literary exhibitors will showcase books and comics. The event is free and
open to the public.
Attendees include
the most frequently challenged author of 2009, Lauren Myracle (ttyl
series); best-selling author Chris Crutcher (The
Sledding Hill); Rick Kogan, WGN
Sunday Papers; and Elizabeth Taylor, book editor, Chicago Tribune. All
participants will read from select titles from the American Library
Association's (ALA) "Top Ten List of Frequently challenged books."
The "Read Out!" is
sponsored by the American Library Association's (ALA) Office for Intellectual
Freedom, the McCormick Foundation Civics Program and the Newberry
Library. For more information on the event and on Banned Books Week,
please visit www.ala.org/bbooks.
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| In the News
Library-related stories appearing in local news media are reflected in this section of the ILA E-News. The intent is to alert and inform the Illinois library community about issues and events that are considered significant by the general media.
| International Literacy Day at Berwyn Public Library
To continue reading about this story, click here.
Ex-Pontiac Library Director Stole Thousands
To
continue reading about
this story, click here.
Seneca Grade School Librarian Tests Student Use of Kindles, iPads
To continue reading about
this story, click here.
Evanston Board Sets Zero-Tax Guideline
To
continue reading about this story, please click here.
Chicago Public Schools Contingent Picks Lisle School Library for Visit
To continue reading about this
story, please 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.
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Sincerely,
Robert P. Doyle
Illinois Library Association |
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