This week's ILA member spotlight shines on Alex Towers. Alex is a Library Assistant at the Joseph Sears School in Kenilworth and a Children's Shelver at the Glencoe Public Library. Alex is also a member of the ILA Reporter Advisory Committee and…
More than a million GoFundMe pages were created without notifying the organizations. Public IRS data was used to create the pages. Having unknown and unclaimed placeholder pages presents several issues for organizations, this is a summary o…
ILA and the 2025 ILA Conference Program Committee thank everyone who contributed to the success of the conference. We encourage you to help us in planning for next year by completing this survey to let us know how we did. Share what you lik…
This week's ILA member spotlight shines on Aimee Villet. Aimee is the Youth Services Director at the Glen Carbon Centennial Library and a co-manager of the ILA Youth Services Forum. We asked Aimee to answer a few p…
Our latest Institutional Member Spotlight is on the Towanda District Library located in Towanda, Illinois. The Library's History Tucked away in the village of Towanda, Illinois—just off I-55 and the historic Route 66—…
The Addison Public Library has been selected by the Chicago Bar Foundation and the Illinois Secretary of State office to provide court access assistance to the surrounding community through a statewide pilot program. As one of 18 public libraries cho…
This week's ILA member spotlight shines on Daniela Martinez. Daniela is the director of the Maywood Public Library District, and she is a member of the ILA Reporter Advisory Committee and the Reaching Forward North Committee. We asked Danie…
The ILA Executive Board met on Thursday, September 18, 2025, in-person in Champaign and virtually on Zoom. Below are highlights of the meeting: The Executive Board confirmed Anne Craig as an Illinois Library Luminary. Anne will be celebrated at…
“Read anything good lately?” That’s the question Green Hills Public Library District (GHPLD) staff members Sara Shahein, Tessa Werden and Klaudia Gorgon set out to answer last September when they launched their first episode of the …
This week's ILA member spotlight features Jennie Mills. Jennie is the director of the Shorewood-Troy Public Library, and she is a director-at-large on the ILA Executive Board. She is also a member of the Finance Committee and the board liaison t…
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