Illinois Library Association
Vol. 6, Issue:  6| January 30, 2013
Have Book Will Travel Resource Guides

For those who have ordered the 2013 iREAD Resource Guide and CDs, they are shipping the week of January 28, 2013.  You will receive an email confirmation from our warehouse when your package ships.  Fulfillment of the incentive products will begin in late February, early March.

 

Thank you for your iREAD orders and Happy Travels this summer.

 

If you have any questions, please give us a call at 312-644-1896 or e-mail at [email protected].

Submit Your 2014 iREAD Ideas!

The theme for the iREAD 2014 program is Paws to Read.  Work has already begun on the 2014 Resource Guide, and we need all of your great ideas to share with other librarians around the world who use the iREAD theme.  Each idea submitted helps strengthen the resource guide for everyone.  Use the form here to submit your theme related ideas, or email us at [email protected].  The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2012.   

 

Upcoming iREAD themes:

  • 2015 will have a Music theme with the slogan Read to the Rhythm.
  • 2016 will feature a Sports and Games theme to coincide with the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil that summer. Brainstorming for this sports and games slogan will begin in August 2013 and conclude at the ILA annual conference in the fall of 2013.
National Forum on Information Literacy
The National Forum on Information Literacy has started a White House petition to highlight the need for a national dialogue about information and digital literacy.  The goal is to collect 25,000 signatures by February 13.  Please click here to sign the petition.  To learn more about this effort, please click here.
RTSF Has Started A Blog!
Become Part of the Conversation
The Illinois Library Association Resources & Technical Services Forum (ILA RTSF) blog launched Friday to facilitate conversation amongst Technical Services staff.

Topics can be as specific as "how do you process and store a Playaway Vue" to the more theoretical "what role Tech Services in the future of libraries."      


Be part of the conversation and subscribe to have posts delivered directly to your inbox. Find out more about how to become involved in the Resources & Technical Services Forum by visiting the RTSF page
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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. 

Rumors of the Library's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
To read this story, please click here
 
Technology Allows Library Patrons More Access to Books, Magazines

To read this story, please click here.
 

Clarendon Hills Library Closing for Renovation
To read this story, please
click here.     

 

DeKalb Library to Ask City for $7.5M

To read this story, please click here.

Aurora Downtown Library Gets $10 Million Grant from State   
To read this story, please click here.   

IMLS 2010 Public Library Survey Results Announced 
 
To read this story, please click here.

Longtime Oak Lawn Librarian Retiring
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Highland Park Officials Tour Library to See $1.275  Million Worth of Upgrades
To read this story, please click here.

New Library Director Begins Work in Carol Stream
To read this story, please click here.

Is the Book a Crucial Cultural Artifact, Or Just an Outdated Container for Content
To read this story, please click here.

Galesburg Library Committee Pursues Grant Despite Snags
To read this story, please click here.

If your library has a newspaper story with link, send it to us at [email protected] for possible inclusion in the next ILA E-Newsletter.  Thanks.
Sincerely,
 

Robert P. Doyle
Illinois Library Association
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