BlogJunction Illinois
A weblog for the WebJunction Illinois community
Unit 2 board approves increased tax levy MyWebTimes.com Employed Ruth Kowalski, library aide at Harding Elementary; Jenna Keigley, reading aide at Harding; and Jessica McNelis, long-term substitute. … Ill. Library Receives Vinyl Record 47 Years Late WIFR Fondulac District Library Director Amy Falasz-Peterson says the album by 1950s pop singer Julius La Rosa was checked [...]
The Illinois State Library is awarding 30 scholarships for employees of Illinois libraries to attend On the Front Lines: Agents of Change. This conference for librarians and other front-line staff will be held March 15-17, 2010 at University of Illinois, Springfield. Each scholarship will pay for the recipient’s conference registration, most meals, and lodging at [...]
The Prairie Area Library System is compiling a list of 2009′s Best Books for Young People. Titles are being sought in four categories: preschool/primary, intermediate, oung adult, and non-fiction. If you would like to submit a title, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/G6NS2TQ. Submissions will be accepted through January 22, 2010. Please limit your nominations to one favorite [...]
Every week the Illinois State Library honors a recipient of one of the literacy grants awarded by Secretary of State Jesse White and the Illinois State Library Literacy Office. This week they shine the spotlight on World Relief Refugee Services, Chicago. Imagine a life behind a barbed wire fence with no future and no employment opportunities. [...]
“Libraries Out Loud” is the theme for the 2010 Illinois Library Association Annual Conference to be held at Navy Pier in Chicago September 28-30. Program proposals are being sought from all types of libraries and agencies with which they interact – for example, a municipality, a school, a corporation or a university. Organizers are placing [...]
Libraries taking part in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Opportunity Online Grant Program should be aware that the verification form you need to document your Opportunity Online matching funds is posted on WebJunction Illinois. Click on the “Matching Funds Verification Form” hotlink. Forms are due to Karen Egan at the State Library by March [...]
All library staff members in the Chicagoland area are invited to DuPage Library System’s DuKane Day on February 26. This school institute day offers more than 20 breakout sessions dedicated to books and reading, copyright, e-books, technology, setting up author visits, and how to deal with change, as well as a keynote speech by Joyze [...]
This week at Library Beat, celebrate a major milestone. NSLS Executive Director Sarah Long marks her 200th Longshots podcast with an interview with Peter Lor, visiting professor at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, about the situation of libraries in South Africa and the lessons he learned about advocacy and the library’s [...]
Two new timely courses have been added to the WebJunction Illinois Course Catalog. Remember, these courses are available anytime, anywhere and are free to registered users of WJIL. Enroll by visiting the WJIL Course Catalog and clicking on LE@D as the Featured Course Provider. Financial Management in Tough Times (LE@D) You’ve just been told that your [...]
Illinois State Library Director Anne Craig is pleased to announce that Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Web-conferencing rooms for each regional library system, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) and the State Library will be the successor for WebJunction Illinois’ Wimba Web-conferencing access. Thanks to Kevin Becker of Lewis and Clark Library [...]