iREAD Committee Illinois Library Association

The Illinois Reading Enrichment and Development (iREAD) program is a coordinated, self-supporting effort to develop and provide high quality, low cost resources, and products to enable local library staff to promote reading. The program’s primary audience is kindergarten through grade eight, but provides supplemental materials for preschoolers, teens, and adults.

News

Committee Spotlight from the ILA Alert: October 17, 2019; The iREAD Committee is a dynamic group of volunteers dedicated to promoting reading, literacy and learning for all ages every year. The main task of the committee is to create content for the iREAD Program every summer, including determinin…

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Events

Feb 12 2021
iREAD Committee Meeting

Friday, Feb 12, 2021 11:00am–3:00pm

Zoom
Apr 9 2021
iREAD Committee Meeting

Friday, Apr 9, 2021 11:00am–3:00pm

Zoom

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The program’s goals are:

• to provide a program that supports local library efforts to promote literacy and lifelong learning;

• to provide a forum for grassroots involvement across the state;

• to encourage statewide participation in and use of the iREAD theme;

• to encourage efficient use of local staff time by networking resources across the state;

• to provide high-quality, low-cost products through volume purchase; and

• to provide resources and projects suitable for all size libraries, rural, urban, and suburban.

Committee Reports

Committee Composition

The committee is composed of sixteen ILA Members: three chairs – chair, future chair, and developing chair; an ambassador, who is the immediate past chair; four coordinators: resource guide, showcase, conference booth and publicity; five members to back up coordinators and perform duties as requested by the chairs; and three ex-officio representatives from youth services/the Youth Services Forum, young adult services/the YA Services Forum, and adult services to provide guidance on the supplemental materials geared toward these age groups. Chairs and the resource guide coordinators will serve a three-year term. The other coordinators and members-at-large will serve two-year terms. The ambassador will serve a one-year term. The chairs select the incoming chair, subject to approval by the ILA Vice President/President-Elect.

Past iREAD Chairs — iREAD Themes