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LSTA Grant Discussion

On Thursday March 27th at 3 pm LTLS Consultants would like to invite you to LTLS to discuss the 2009 LSTA Grant Offerings. The discussion will include: grants in general; ideas that you have for grants and ideas that we have. In addition, LTLS would like to discuss our new Digital Gems service that any or all of you could be part of. For the past several years we worked with individual libraries and organizations to assist with some digitizing projects. As a result we are launching a new web site Digital Gems by the end of June and would like to add some of your digital gems to this site. We want to prepare a grant to promote the heritage of East Central Illinois and we are actively seeking small collections to digitze including photographs, scrapbooks documents and other items.

Come talk to us about digital gems and items you might contribute.

Come talk to us about your ideas for local LSTA grants

Come talk to us about System wide LSTA grants.

We want each of your ideas – bring your friends and if you have digital gems bring a local historian, a museum staff member or board member and have a good time thinking about possibilities.

We will meet at 3 pm on March 27th and look forward to talking with all of you. Please email Janet Hamilton (jhamil1@lincolntrail.info) regarding you attendance. Hope to see you.

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eChicago Symposium

The Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science will present the second annual eChicago Symposium--Libraries, Community Technology Centers, and Chicago: Building and Serving Our Communities, 6:30-8:30 p.m. on April 3, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. on April 4, 2008, at Dominican University, Crown Library Springer Suites, 7900 West Division Street, River Forest, Illinois 60305. The program is free and open to all, but space is limited and advance registration is requested. For more information and to register, go to https://webtools.uiuc.edu/formBuilder/Secure?id=9451793.

ISL Diversity Program: Piecin' a Quilt, Jessie Carney Smith & African American Women's History

The Illinois State Library Diversity Program invites you to celebrate women's history month by attending Piecin' a Quilt, Jessie Carney Smith & African American Women's History on March 27, 2008, 12-1 p.m. at the Illinois Authors Room in the State Library. Jessie Carney Smith, Head librarian at Fisk University, spent two decades amassing information on important black women from colonial days to the present. The result was a gargantuan tome--Notable Black American Women (Gale Research, 1991). Ms. Christa V. Hardy, doctoral candidate of library & Information Science at the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, will share the contributions, history, and far-reaching achievements of Jessie Carney Smith. Bring your lunch and learn! For more information, contact Vandella Brown at 217-785-9075 or Vbrown@ilsos.net.

Let's Talk About It: Love and Forgiveness Grant

The American Library Association and the Fetzer Institute, as part of its campaign for Love & Forgiveness, announced applications for Let's Talk About It: Love and Forgiveness, a theme-based reading and discussion program for public libraries. Successful applications will receive a $2,500 programming grant, training, promotional resources and more.

Applications will be accepted through July 15, 2008.