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Vol. 5, Issue: 11| March 19, 2012
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| April 2012 ILA Reporter on Website | Please click here to download the entire April 2012 ILA Reporter or click on the links below to download a separate pdf for each specific article:
E is for Elephant...and E-booksby Erica Hanke, Anne Slaughter, and Chris Watkins Drawing Moby-Dick: A Librarian's Story by Matt Kish From the Flying Trapeze to Fossils, Flora, and "For Sale" Signs by Christina Stoll, Maureen Brunsdale, Mary Martinez-Garcia and Dave Shumaker, Susan Braxton, and Rita M. Hassert My Turn by Jan Chindlund |
ISLMA/LBSS Endowment Fund Grant
| The Illinois School Library Media Association/Library Book Selection Service will issue its third annual book grants this year. Public and private school libraries as well as public libraries registered in any of
the Illinois Readers' Choice awards programs--the Monarch Award, the Bluestem Award, the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award, and the Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award--are eligible to apply.
Grant recipients will be awarded one set of the 2012 reading campaign books for the award program indicated on their application. The titles in each book award set are determined by the individual committees in charge of the reading award programs. Sets include one copy each of the 20 or 22 books depending on the award program selected.
For information about the grant, please click here. Questions may be
sent to info@lbssfund.org, by fax to (309) 649-0916 or by phone to (309) 649-0911.
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Award Nominations Due May 15
Spotlighting Two Awards | |
DEMCO Library Innovative Award
This award recognizes a library's achievement in planning and implementing an innovative or creative program or service, which has had measurable impact on its users. The purpose of this award is to encourage innovation by highlighting the overall activities of a library (including staff, administration, governance, and volunteers) in successfully marshaling its resources to benefit its users.
Deborah Dowley Preiser Award
This award recognizes a library employee's excellent work in public relations and adult programming over a period of several years. The person so honored's achievements should reflect the importance of publicity and adult programming as central to the role of the library as a community center and to the library as place.
Nominations for all ILA Awards are due May 15, 2012. Nominating someone for an ILA Award has never been easier!
Submit your nomination form and all supporting documentation via the ILA Web site. No service should go unrecognized, so toot your own horn or tell us who you think is the best!
If you have any questions about the ILA Awards, please contact the ILA office at (312) 644-1896, or ila@ila.org.
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The Future of the Library?
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 | What will libraries look like in 2050? Who will be using them? Join four library experts as they explore how different types of libraries are growing, evolving, and remaining true to their missions. Through each talk you will have a chance to explore a particular type of library venture from web-based portals to immigrant outreach. How do different audiences use libraries? How have librarians and libraries adapted their practices to serve new populations and needs? How are libraries working together to make information more accessible?
Explore these questions and more with
- Carolyn Anthony, Director of the Skokie Public Library, which serves one of the area's most diverse populations;
- Mary Case, University of Illinois at Chicago University Librarian, who directs the Chicago Collections Consortium's Chicago Portal Planning project;
- Judith McBrien, who is currently developing a new documentary project entitled, Do Public Libraries Still Matter in the Digital Age?;
- and Julie Piacentine, Reference Librarian at the University of Chicago, who will examine the role of the reference librarian in the age of an increasingly complex information landscape.
Presented by the University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies in partnership with Know Your Chicago Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive
Tuition: $115
To Register Online, please click here.
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In the News
Library-related stories appearing in local news media are reflected in this section of the ILA E-Newsletter. The intent is to alert and inform the Illinois library community about issues and events that are considered significant by the general media. | U46 Chief Dr. Torres Issues Summer Reading Challenge
To continue reading about this story, please click here.Editorial: Local Library Boon Shows Importance of Good Library
To continue reading this story, please click here. Carol Stream Library Searching for New Trustee
To continue reading this story, please click here.
Carol Stream Considers Rec. Center Library Branch
To continue reading this story, please click here.
Aurora Library Board Makes Cases for New Building
To continue reading this story, please click here.
Joliet Library Opens Digital Medial Studio to General Public
To continue reading this story, please click here.
Report: Soaring Property Taxes Unsustainable
To continue reading this story, please click here.
New Electronic Chapter for Libraries, Warrensburg
To continue reading 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-Newsletter. Thanks.
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Sincerely,
Robert P. Doyle
Illinois Library Association |
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April 20, 2012Deadline for June issue of the ILA Reporter. Guidelines for Submissions to the ILA Reporter.March 24, 2012April 9, 2012
Youth Services Workshop, RAILS, Rockford
April 11, 2012
Youth Services Workshop, Illinois Heartland Library System, Edwardsville, Ill.
April 12, 2012
Youth Services Workshop, Champaign Public Library
April 13, 2012
ILA Executive Board meeting, Illinois State University, Milner Library, Bloomington
April 13, 2012
Youth Services Workshop, Arlington Height Memorial Library
April 18, 2012
Illinois Library Day, Springfield, Ill.
April 24, 2012National Library Legislative Day, Washington, D.C.May 4, 2012October 9-11, 20122012 ILA Annual Conference, Peoria
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