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A new vendor has been selected for this report and detailed information will be forthcoming. The timeline for its release is January 14, 2008.
A new vendor has been selected for these reports and detailed information will be forthcoming. The timeline below summarizes when these reporting tools should initially be available for data input and completion:
1. ILLINET ILL Traffic Form FY2007: January 14, 2008
2. ILLINET ILL Traffic Form FY2008: March 1, 2008
Susan McKinney, St. Joseph Township-Swearingen Memorial Librarian, is working with Psi Iota Xi (a philanthropic sorority) to write a grant to buy the IREAD resource guide (book and cd) for all the libraries in the LTLS system. Susan requests that LTLS libraries email to her (smckin@gmail.com) the number of children who participated/signed up in 2007 by Monday, October 29.
36th National Storytelling Festival
26th Annual Chartered Coach Trip: October 2-6, 2008
Sponsored by McHenry County Storytelling Guild
You are invited to join us for a grand weekend in Tennessee. Reserve your spot now. Everyone on the 2007 trip wanted to see the coach trip continue. Eight wrote deposit checks for 2008 before the trip even ended. To ensure a coach trip in 2008, we need another seventeen reservations by December 1, 2007. Decision will be made on December 3 and confirmation sent
Full package for 2008 includes transportation by motor coach, lodging, and festival admission with local transportation. Estimate for double occupancy is $600. Partial packages also available: transportation and festival, transportation only, or hotel, local transportation and festival.
Register by December 1, 2007. Cost for an individual will depend on the number of participants on the trip. Personal expenses and additional events at the festival are not included in the estimate.
To register, please contact
A. Denise Farrugia Evenings at 630-556-4771
Festival Trip Coordinator festivaltrip@earthlink.net
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The Distribution to Underserved Communities Library Program (DUC) announces the launch of its 2007-08 inventory of brand-new art books!
The DUC is a nationwide program that distributes books on contemporary art to rural and inner-city schools, libraries, and alternative reading centers completely free of charge. If you are a public institution in an underserved community, you are eligible to receive these free materials.
You may learn more about the program, browse the selection of titles from new and returning publishers, and place an order for books on our website, www.ducprogram.org. All orders are shipped completely free of charge!
With the intention of serving as many schools and libraries as possible, we restrict participants to one order per year. If you have received books from us in recent months, we kindly request you wait to place a new order until an appropriate period has passed. In order to ensure we reach the nation's most underserved communities, we are unable to fill orders from private or religious institutions. Please note that due to the large volume of orders we receive, it may take up to three months to process and ship the books you request.
If you have questions about the program or the ordering process, contact: info@ducprogram.org or (212) 255-2919.
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will present a new workshop called "Film Exposed: An Introduction to Basic Film Handling and Inspecting Techniques for the Beginner" on Friday, November 2, 2007, 3:30-5:30 p.m. at the GSLIS Bldg., Rm. 131, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign. This hands-on workshop will introduce the basics of film preservation to the archivist, librarian, or collections manager. For details and to register, go to http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/workshops.html. For additional information, contact Laura Berfield at lberfiel@uiuc.edu.
