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Vol. 5, Issue: 27 | August 28, 2012
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| Public Policy Committee Requests Your Help | | The ILA Public Policy Committee (PPC) is discussing the possibility of proposing legislative changes to the frequency of levying the Building & Maintenance tax. PPC requests your help in completing a seven-question survey to see how often the levy was challenged and how much staff time and cost involved in publishing the notice and dealing with challenges. Please click here to the survey. |
| Terri Murphy, Youth Librarian and 2013 iREAD® Illustrator for Have Book-Will Travel! |
 Besides being one of the illustrators for Have Book-Will Travel!, iREAD®'s 2013 theme, Terri Murphy is a youth librarian at Prospect Heights Public Library District. When she's not working at the library, Murphy is an illustrator for children's books and magazines, educational materials, music CDs, and outdoor murals. Her most recent books are Dance Y'all Dance (2010 Bright Sky Press), and One Day I Went Rambling (2012 Bright Sky Press), both authored by Kelly Bennett.
Murphy reports that she is in her second childhood, and there she plans to stay. Born to immigrant parents, she spent a lot of her  time as a child observing people, their expressions, and the natural world as she learned the language. Her favorite toy was a pair of binoculars. Now she surrounds herself with sketches and paint and is once again immersed in another language. In addition to illustrating for children, she hosts traveling art workshops, is a nature photographer, and enjoys rambling and finding treasure in the ordinary.
Check out some of her illustrations and learn more about her workshops.
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| 2013 Election Documents | |
The Illinois State Board of Elections recently posted several publications on the 2013 Consolidated Elections and their links are as follows:
Local Election Officials Handbook
2013 Election and Campaign Finance Calendar
2013 Candidates Guide
2013 Township Caucus Guide
For additional information, please contact:
Jamye Sims, Election Specialist
Illinois State Board of Elections
2329 S. MacArthur Blvd.
Springfield, IL 62704-4503
phone: 217-782-1570
e-mail: JSims@elections.il.gov
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| DuPage Goes to Washington | Carol Sturz, coordinator of the Library & Information Technology program at
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the College of DuPage, presented a workshop at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on August 23 for the FEDLINK's Institute for Federal Library Technicians.
FEDLINK serves federal libraries and information centers as their purchasing, training and resource-sharing consortium. The three-hour workshop was coordinated by Clark Brown, network librarian from the Library of Congress, FLICC/FEDLINK, and attended by forty-nine federal library technicians from around the United States.
Sturz presented student portfolios developed as part of the Library Technology Assistant program at DuPage and addressed the FEDLINK competencies for federal librarians.
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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. |
Farmington Will Ask Voters for $700,000 Balance on New Library
North Suburban Library Director to Retire
To continue reading this story, please click here.
West Side Library Branch Grand Opening a Smash
New Technology Helps Library Users Access 10 Million WorksTo continue reading this story, please click here. Galesburg Library Board's Construction Committee Sets Requirements for Architect To continue reading this story, please click here. Local Governments Hit by Loss of Property Tax Replacement FundsTo continue reading this story, please click here.
Rockford Library Trustees Give A-OK on Sullivan Acquisition
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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