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Vol. 6, Issue: 4| January 21, 2013
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February 2013 ILA Reporter on ILA Website
| Please click here to download the entire February 2013 ILA Reporter in PDF format. This issue includes the following articles:
New Library Buildings 
PDF Download Elgin Community College Renner Academic Library, by Jeff Julian Quincy Public Library,
by Ruth Cuthbertson Schaumburg Township District Library Teen Place,
by Susan Miura
University of Illinois at Chicago IDEA Commons,
by Linda Naru
White Oak Library District Romeoville Branch,
by Scott Pointon Legal Issues Relating to Online Social Networking
by Julie Tappendorf
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Staff Training: Day In, Day Out by Cynthia Lopuszynski, Penny Ramirez, Lauren Rosenthal, and Julie Zukowski PDF Download Take Action by Alissa Williams PDF Download Registration Forms:
2013 National Library Legislative Day, May 7, 2013
2013 Library Trustee Workshops, Feb. 2, 2013 and March 23, 2103
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February 1st, 2013 Deadline for Everyone Reads @ your Library Mini-grants
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The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is now accepting applications for mini-grants intended to prepare libraries to incorporate Día into their existing programs, throughout the year. Libraries will use these mini-grants to initiate a Día Family Book Club Program. These mini-grants are part of ALSC's Everyone Reads @ your library grant, funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.
Intended as an expansion of El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Día), the mini-grants will be awarded to libraries that demonstrate a need to better address the diverse backgrounds within their communities. Up to 12 mini-grants will be awarded at $5,000 each. In addition to these mini-grants, funding from this grant will also allow ALSC to create a Día Family Book Club Toolkit that will be accessible to all. Please click here for more information, and the application form.
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| AAUP Publishes New Guidelines on Librarians |
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has updated guidelines for librarians to reflect their changing roles as teachers and researchers. The joint Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians now includes language on technology in the library and recommends that institutions adequately compensate librarians for the 12-month cycles in which they typically work.
It also recommends that colleges and universities involve librarians in governance issues, such as curriculum development, said Deanna Wood, a reference librarian and associate professor of reference at the University of New Hampshire who helped draft the updated guidelines. That way, students won't enter the library to do research and find "there's nothing there to support it."
The revised statement also reaffirms an earlier version's call to consider librarians involved in teaching and research as faculty members and lauds their role as independent guardians of intellectual and academic freedom. Wood said while she and many fellow librarians at public land-grant universities are tenured faculty, the practice is rarer at private universities. It's unclear what percentage of librarians are tenure-track faculty nationwide, she added.
A joint committee of AAUP and Association of College and Research Libraries members drafted the updates to the original, 1973 guidelines, which were approved by both groups last year.
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In the News
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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.
No Guns in the Library: Curbing the Second Amendment in the Stacks
To read this story, please click here.
Minneapolis School Library Without Book Thrives After Clearing Entire Print Collection
To read this story, please click here.
Allerton Library District Purchases Land
To read this story, please click here. Tinley Librarian Promotes Digital ServicesTo read this story, please click here. 23rd Legislative Breakfast to Address Library IssuesTo read this story, please click here. Illinois Wesleyan Joins Project to Create Library Publishing CoalitionTo read this story, please click here. Library Board Keeps Controversial Book in Teen SectionTo read this story, please click here. Library Board Hears Request for Book to Be ReassignedTo read this story, please click here. Obama Portrait Presented to Chicago Public LibraryTo read this story, please click here. Homewood's 'Not-by-the-book" Librarian RetiresTo read this story, please click here. Work Starts on Glencoe Meeting RoomsTo read this story, please click here. Naperville Library Drops Movie Fees, to Be Open Late SundaysTo read this story, please click here. Carol Stream Library Board Censures TrusteeTo read this story, please click here. The Economic Impact of NYC's Libraries -- Center for an Urban FutureTo read this story, please click here. Branches of Opportunity -- Center for an Urban FutureTo read 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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