National Library Week is an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries, librarians, and library workers play in transforming lives and strengthening our communities. This year’s theme, Libraries = Strong Communities, illus…
A "Dear Appropriator" letter is circulating in the US Senate urging full fiscal year 2020 funding for the Department of Education's Innovative Approaches to Literacy grant program (IAL), which funds school libraries via professional develop…
The push for support in the House is coming to an end. Now, ALA advocates are turning the attention to the Senate.We are asking senators to preserve more than $210 million in federal funding for libraries. Now is the time to let yours …
Thanks to the members who have brought two pieces of potential legislation having to do with exotic animal shows to our attention: SB0154 and HB2554. We understand programming librarians are concerned about their ability to continue to…
Email your Rep today and ask them to oppose cuts to federal funding for libraries! The White House budget proposal for FY2020 has, for a third time, proposed elimination of federal funding for libraries. This year's "Dear Appropri…
Thanks to our colleagues at Klein, Thorpe, and Jenkins for a clear explanation of a change in law of potential interest to libraries: The Illinois General Assembly amended Section 8 of the Illinois Local Government Professional Services Selection Act…
ILA's Public Policy and Advocacy Committees met on March 4 at the RAILS headquarters in Burr Ridge to discuss ongoing legislative issues. Visit the Illinois Legislative Issues page and the Federal Legislative Issues page on the IL…
The decennial census is coming up in 2020, and libraries will be essential partners in ensuring a complete count. There are a number of organizations planning for the census nationwide and here in Illinois; ILA has compiled an index to who they are a…
Linda C. Smith Linda’s nearly 50-year career began when she came to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library Science (now the School of Information Sciences) in 1971 shortly after graduating summa c…
Governor Pritzker signed Public Act 101-0001, the Lifting Up Illinois Working Families Act, into law on February 20, 2019. This law raises the minimum wage in the state of Illinois to $15 per hour by 2025. ILA has been following the progress of …
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