Michelle Ralston and Joe Sciacca present a display of the PolyTalk Library Interpreters Network at the Diversity Fair at the 2007 ALA Annual Conference.

Our library places are on the go. Hear It! See It! and Read @ Indian Trails Public Library Bookmobile.

Meg Frazier (Bradley University), Kathy Baxter (Author), Mary Richars (Dieterich CU #30), Ellen Popit (Shawnee Library System) and Jan Bolding (Whiteside CUSD #15) network at the Institute for School and Public Librarians. They illustrate the benefits of multitype library collaboration.

Special libraries meet the needs of their unique and specialized constituents. The BP Corporate Library in Naperville, IL is a model for corporate libraries.

Areli joins several of her colleagues at Harper who share their love for reading. See the full set of Library Read Posters in Harper College Library’ flickr set.

Who wouldn’t want to curl up on this sofa with a good book. History is preserved at the Pawnee Public Library as well as within – this wall is over 100 years old.

Sharon Ruda, Illinois State Library Talking Book and Braille Service, Pat Boze, Lincoln Trail Libraries System, and Deb Aggertt, Illinois State Library enjoy a break during the Small Public Libraries Management Institute (SPLMI).

“In the spring of 1901, Andrew Carnegie offered to build a Carnegie Library for the city of Alton. This offer was respectfully declined! John Hayner, through further generous gifting to the endowment fund, provided for the Hayner library to be free to all the citizens of Alton. The acceptance of the Carnegie proposal would have required a yearly taxation on the citizens. Mr. Hayner’s benefaction allowed Alton citizens to enjoy the only free library in the country, wholly under the management of the ladies of the Jennie D. Hayner Library Association, previously the Alton Library Association.” – from the Hayner Public Library District history.

University of Illinois – University librarian and dean of librarians Paula Kaufman is pictured near the mural of the Celestial Hemisphere in the Main Library’ grand staircase.

The Main Library’ east entrance features two of four Loredo Taft limestone sculptures of the “Sons and Daughters of Deucalion and Pyrrha,” created in 1933.