LTLS - Quick Connections

Thank you, Barb!

On Thursday, February 25th, Barb Lintner presented her last iRead program for Lincoln Trail.  For all her hard work and dedication to the iRead program, and for her willingness to share her knowledge with others in the Lincoln Trail area, LTLS thanks her!

Cookie cakes were enjoyed by all!

Library System Presidents and Directors Chart a new course for libraries in Illinois

The Illinois Library System Presidents and Directors met in Decatur, Friday February 19th to discuss the current status of system finances and library funding, the status of the NSLS/DLS merger discussions, restructuring efforts, consolidation and new sustainability service models. The group crafted a resolution that was personally delivered to Secretary of State and Illinois State Librarian Jesse White on Monday February 22, 2010 encouraging him to release Live and Learn Funds so that payments due to the library systems could be brought up to date for FY 2010. They further discussed a new vision and model of service with standards and protocols that would re-shape multitype library service in Illinois.

In talking about the meeting John Richmond, President of the Alliance Library System, said, “Libraries in Illinois are at a crossroads. Of primary concern is providing excellent multitype library service to the membership. Our discussions were open, frank and focused on collaborative actions to support and sustain our vision of the future. The decisions made in the next few months will be fundamental to our ongoing success. How we co-operate and re-envision our communal future is fundamental to our ability to support multitype library services across the state.”

The meeting closed with an enthusiastic commitment by all nine systems to continue the dialogue and forge a new framework to support their discussions.  The library system Presidents and Directors affirmed their unanimous support to work together to assure the future of library systems in Illinois. The group will meet in several months to assess their progress.

Background information:

Illinois Library Systems are membership-based, regional organizations consisting of academic, public, school, and special libraries.
Illinois is served by nine library systems, each providing services to participating libraries in its region. Statewide, over 2,200 libraries of all types and sizes are members of library systems.  Funding for Illinois Library Systems is provided through the Illinois State Library and the Secretary of State with funds appropriated by the Illinois General Assembly.

For more information contact:

Jan Ison, Executive Director
Lincoln Trail Libraries System
1704 West Interstate Dr.
Champaign, Illinois  61822
Phone:  217-352-0047
Email: jison@lincolntrail.info

Weekly Poll

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ALA 2010 Best Lists

The March 1st issue of Booklist Online has links to ALA's 2010 Best Lists.  Included are links to the 2010 selections for the following lists:
Notable Books
The Reading List: Best Adult Genre Fiction
Alex Awards
Best Books for Young Adults
Quick Picks
Rainbow List
Great Graphic Novels for Teens
Notable Children’s Books
Notable Children’s Recordings
Notable Children’s Videos
Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
Notable Videos for Adults

UC-Irvine survey about home energy use

The study, which is being conducted by a research team at the University of California, is interested in your observations and experiences of your home energy use as well as any feedback devices you may have used. The study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at University of California, Irvine. Your participation is completely voluntary and anonymous. All survey participants are eligible to be placed in a raffle for a $50 Amazon.com gift card! A winner will be contacted via e-mail after survey data has been collected.

If you are willing to take this survey, please click HERE

This survey is an important step towards understanding how people think about and use energy in their homes and part of a larger study whose goal is to design and test interventions aimed at energy conservation.

Weekly Poll

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Penny Severns' Summer Family Literacy Grant Info.

There will be a meeting about the Penny Severns' Summer Family Literacy Grant. The meeting will be an online presentation using OPAL. This grant information session will be recorded. A link to the recorded session will be emailed several days following the live session.

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Presenters: Cyndy Colletti & Beth Paoli, Illinois State Library Literacy Office
Registration:  Registration is required.  Please register at this website.

At this on-line meeting, Literacy Office staff will go over the application and programming requirements concerning the grant application. This email will be your only notification.

APPLICATION FORMAT INFORMATION:

This grant is being offered as a pilot for Illinois State Library online grant application. The online grant application is in its final stage of development.  An email will be sent when the online version of the application is available.  Until the online version is available, a PDF version of the application  will be available on the ISL's website.

Please begin working on developing partnerships and your proposal.  You may find the PDF at the web site. You may print this document, the cover page and the instructions prior to the grant information session for note taking purposes. If the PDF version is not available at the web site, the online version will be visible.  When available, this version will be the required format. 

The Penny Severns’ Summer Family Literacy grant offering is being funded through federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds; therefore, these funds are exclusively available to public libraries. It is a program designed to assist libraries to recruit low-literate and limited English proficient families as the target audience, and to develop reading related, need-based library programs, events or activities involving low-literate and/or limited English proficient families.  Programming must include the following components:  reading enrichment for low literate or limited English proficient adults, reading enrichment for the children of those adults, interactive, literacy-based, activities in which the parents and children learn together, and related library activities for the target families’ participation.  In addition, libraries may purchase materials to support family literacy activities and are encouraged to develop relationships with adult literacy agencies to provide reading enrichment and literacy activities.  Libraries demonstrating formal cooperation with adult literacy provider agencies will receive increased consideration for funding in the competitive application review process.

The online application and must be submitted to the Secretary of State Illinois State Library Literacy Office in an electronic format.  No paper copies will be accepted.  The due date of the application is 11:59 p.m. on Friday, March 26, 2010.

Date Change - Center for Children's Books Workshop

On February 27, 2010, (previously advertised on the 20th of February) the Center for Children's Books will be sponsoring "Award-Winning Books of 2009,” a morning workshop for librarians, teachers and book enthusiasts facilitated by Kate Quealy, assistant editor of the Bulletin for the Center for Children’s Books.

For more information, check out our flyer: http://tinyurl.com/awardbook2010

To register online, visit: http://tinyurl.com/webregister

Contact:
Corrie Ball
Outreach GA
The Center for Children's Books
504 E. Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 244-9331
ccboutreach@illinois.edu
http://ccb.lis.illinois.edu

On February 27, 2010, (previously advertised on the 20th of February) the Center for Children's Books will be sponsoring "Award-Winning Books of 2009,” a morning workshop for librarians, teachers and book enthusiasts facilitated by Kate Quealy, assistant editor of the Bulletin for the Center for Children’s Books.

For more information, check out our flyer: http://tinyurl.com/awardbook2010

To register online, visit: http://tinyurl.com/webregister

Contact:
Corrie Ball
Outreach GA
The Center for Children's Books
504 E. Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 244-9331
ccboutreach@illinois.edu
http://ccb.lis.illinois.edu

Synergy 2010 Participants Announced

Congratulations to Ryan A. Franklin, from the Mattoon Public Library for being selected to take part in Synergy: The Illinois Library Leadership Initiative 2010, the statewide library community's movement to recruit and nurture future Illinois library leaders.

Weekly Poll

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You can also view results from previous weekly polls.