Public Policy Committee (PPC)

Provides the association’s focus on legislative matters; recommends studies on projects designed to advance the development of all types of libraries; advocates legislative action that advances library service for all residents of Illinois.  Committee consists of twelve voting members, serving three-year, staggered terms including one member serving a one-year term.  Each incoming ILA president should appoint four members, including his/her designated Public Policy Committee chair.  Nonvoting ex officio members are the ILA executive director, the director of the Illinois State Library, ILA president, ILA vice president/president-elect, the chair of the ILA Intellectual Freedom Committee, the Federal Library Legislative and Advocacy Network coordinator, and a representative of the school library community, a representative of the academic library community, a representative of the library systems community (these last three ex officio members usually are the president of ISLMA, the executive director of CARLI, and the chair of the ILSDO, or their designee).  A vacancy shall be declared for any member or ex officio member who is absent without cause from three regular meetings in the period of one year.

2010-2011Chair, Term on Committee 2010-2013
Phyllis C. Self
Western Illinois University
University Library
One University Circle
Macomb, IL  61455-1390
phone:  (309) 298-2762
fax:  (309) 298-2791
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Members

Roxanne Bennett, 2009-2012
M. Katherine Berggren, 2008–2011
Deirdre Brennan, 2010–2013
Alice Calabrese Berry, 2010–2013
Carole Dickerson, 2010–2013
Eve Kirk, 2009–2012
John Knobloch, 2008–2011
Karen Danczak Lyons, 2009–2012
Milfred L. Moore, 2010-2013
Chad Raymond, 2009–2012
Brian Shepard, 2008–2011

Ex Officio
Gail Bush, ILA President
Anne Craig, Illinois State Library
Esther Curry, ILA Intellectual Freedom Committee chair
Tom Dorst, CARLI
Robert P. Doyle, ILA Executive Director
Lynn Elam, ILA Vice President/President-elect
Lou Ann Jacobs, ISLMA
Karen Danczak Lyons, Federal Library Legislative and Advocacy Network
Kathleen McSwain, Advocacy Committee chair
Carole A. Medal, ILA Immediate Past President
Bev Obert, Illinois Library Systems Directors Organization

Board Liaison
Gail Bush