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Download Pamphlets on Labor Law, Tort Immunity and Other Subjects from the Ancel Glink Library OCTOBER 2011 | VOLUME XXIX ISSUE 5 ILLINOIS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ILLINOIS LIBRARY The Illinois Library Association Reporter is a forum for those who are improving and reinventing Illinois libraries, with articles that seek to: explore new ideas and practices from all types of libraries and library systems; examine the challenges facing the profession; and inform the library community and its supporters with news and comment about important issues. The ILA Reporter is produced and circulated with the purpose of enhancing and supporting the value of libraries, which provide free and equal access to information. This access is essential for an open democratic society, an informed electorate, and the advancement of knowledge for all people. ON THE COVER This drawing of the interior of the B. Harley Bradley House in Kankakee is among the drawings in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wasmusth Portfolio in the special collections of the Oak Park Public Library. The house was designed in 1900 for Harley and Anna Hickox Bradley, arguably Wright’s first acknowledged Prairie-style design. Built along the Kankakee River, it’s a perfect example of Wright’s idea to design an entire house including the interiors as well. See article beginning on page 8. The Illinois Library Association is the voice for Illinois libraries and the millions who depend The Illinois Library Association has three full-time staff members. It is governed by on them. It provides leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of a sixteen-member executive board, made up of elected officers. The association library services in Illinois and for the library community in order to enhance learning and employs the services of Kolkmeier Consulting for legislative advocacy. ILA is a 501(c) ensure access to information for all. It is the eighth oldest library association in the world (3) charitable and educational organization. and the third largest state association in the United States, with members in academic, public, school, government, and special libraries. Its 3,500 members are primarily librarians and library staff, but also trustees, publishers, and other supporters. The ILA Reporter is published six times/year (Feb., Apr., June, Aug., Oct., Dec.) See ILA calendar for submission deadlines for the ILA Reporter. Copy should be and is a benefit of ILA membership; the subscription rate for nonmembers is $25. submitted by e-mail to [email protected]. You are encouraged to include digital or film ISSN 0018-9979. Designed by Verso Design Corp., Joliet, Ill. Printed by Aspen Printing photos (black/white or color) and graphics (on disk or camera-ready) with your Services. Indexed by H.W. Wilson in Library Literature & Information Science. articles, which will be included on a space-available basis. The ILA Reporter was first published in 1962. OCTOBER 2011 | VOLUME XXIX ISSUE 5 CONTENTS 33 W. Grand Ave., Ste. 401 | Chicago, IL 60654-6799 phone: (312) 644-1896 | fax: (312) 644-1899 e-mail: [email protected] | www.ila.org 2010/2011 EXECUTIVE BOARD PRESIDENT FEATURES Lynn Elam, Algonquin Area Public Library District 4 FROM NINE INTO TWO: THE ILLINOIS VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT LIBRARY SYSTEMS MERGER OF 2011 Pamela Van Kirk by Brock Peoples and Jeannie Dilger-Hill IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Gail Bush, National Louis University 8 WRIGHT, WASMUTH, AND WORKS OF ART TREASURER by Leigh A. Tarullo Rebecca Teasdale, Oak Park Public Library 12 MUNICIPALITIES AND THEIR LIBRARIES: DIRECTORS Laura Barnes, Illinois Sustainable Technology Center MUTUAL BENEFIT, BUT SOMETIMES AN David Carlson, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale UNEASY RELATIONSHIP Terry Cottrell, University of St. Francis Library by Kip Kolkmeier Cynthia L. Fuerst, Vernon Area Public Library District Kate Hall, New Lenox Public Library District 16 NEW MEMBERS David Hamilton, CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois 17 2011 RECIPIENTS OF THE SYLVIA MURPHY Jeanne Hamilton, Charleston Carnegie Public Library Sheree Kozel-La Ha, Homer Township Public Library District WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUND Amanda McKay, Helen Matthes Library Scott E. Pointon, White Oak Library District 21 ILLINOIS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL Leslie Warren, Moraine Valley Community College Library REPORT 2010–2011 by Robert P. Doyle ALA COUNCILOR Donald L. Roalkvam, Indian Trails Public Library District EX OFFICIO OPINION & COMMENTARY Robert P. Doyle, Illinois Library Association Anne B. Craig, Illinois State Library 14 SALLY IN LIBRARYLAND EDITOR by Sally Decker Smith Robert P. Doyle 34 MY TURN by Sarah Ann Long INSERTS 2012 IREAD CATALOG October 2011 | ILA REPORTER 3 | Brock Peoples, Smithton Public Library District, and Jeannie Dilger-Hill, La Grange Public Library | From Nine into Tw o : The Illinois Library Systems Merger of 2011 Dateline May 11, 2010. Wheeling, IL — Sarah Ann Long, executive director of the North Suburban Library System (NSLS), has sent out an e-mail letter to members, informing them that NSLS will be eliminating or drastically reducing all services except for delivery. Funding had been sporadic at best, and now the reality was setting in. The e-mail was quickly forwarded throughout the state, and systems’ members statewide began wondering about the fate of Illinois Library Systems. REGIONAL LIBRARY SYSTEMS MERGE Librarian Jesse White to release “Live and Learn” funds in order to bring payments to the systems current. Not long after During FY2010, budgetary problems facing the state of Illinois this letter was sent, funds earmarked for library systems and began to translate into later and later payments to all of the additional payments were received. state’s vendors, including library systems. The Illinois General Assembly authorized payments to be made through December Unfortunately the efforts of the system directors and presidents 31, 2010, a full six months after the fiscal year had actually were not enough to reverse the climate of uncertainty or to stave ended. This situation left library systems more and more off drastic service cuts. On May 11, 2010, NSLS announced dependent on dwindling financial reserves, already hit by the the above-mentioned cuts, effective May 31. A week later, 16.5 percent reduction in some grant programs seen between Tina Hubert then-executive director of Lewis and Clark Library FY2009 and FY2010. Compounding the problem, systems System (LCLS) announced restructuring of LCLS would were left not knowing when, exactly, payments would arrive, be effective June 30, 2010. This restructuring eliminated if they would arrive before December 31, or at all. This fiscal consulting services, general continuing education programs, crisis forced library systems to examine their core priorities and grant development, and human resources support. Additionally focus their efforts, cutting services they had long valued. the LCLS workweek was reduced and five full-time staff members were laid off. Hubert announced that these cuts were On February 19, 2010, the presidents and directors of the necessary to enable LCLS to focus on the provision of what Illinois Library Systems met to discuss the statewide status of were seen as core priorities: delivery, Local Library System system finances, system restructuring efforts, and sustainable Automation Program (LLSAP) support, and technology services. service models. As a result of the meeting, system presidents Similar efforts went into effect at systems statewide as each signed a letter urging Illinois Secretary of State and State struggled to adapt their services and culture to new fiscal realities. [continued on page 6] 4 ILA REPORTER | October 2011 Stephenson Boone CHICAGO PUBLIC JoDaviess Winnebago Lake McHenry LIBRARY SYSTEM Carroll Cook REACHING ACROSS Ogle ILLINOIS LIBRARY SYSTEM De Kalb DuPage Whiteside Kane Lee Chicago Kendall Bureau Will Rock Island La Salle Grundy Henry Mercer Putnam Kankakee Stark Marshall Livingston Knox Warren Woodford Peoria Iroquois enderson H Ford Fulton Tazewell McDonough Mclean Hancock Mason Logan Vermilion Schuyler De Witt Champaign Menard Adams Piatt Cass Brown Macon Sangamon Douglas Morgan Edgar Scott Moultrie Pike Christian Coles C Greene alhoun Macoupin Shelby Clark Cumberland Montgomery Fayette Effingham Jersey Jasper Crawford Bond Madison Lawrence Clay Richland ILLINOIS HEARTLAND Marion Clinton LIBRARY SYSTEM St. Clair Wayne Wabash Washington Jefferson Edwards Monroe Hamilton White Randolph Perry Franklin Jackson Saline Gallatin Williamson Hardin Union Johnson Pope Alexande Massac Pulaski r [continued from page 4] These measures raised serious concerns about the future of have on delivery?” If delivery is the first question, the second is Illinois Library Systems and the impact of decreased system “Does this mean I can now request books from anywhere in the services on local libraries. Through June and July 2010, system new system via the OPAC?” The answer to both questions directors and boards met, and with the encouragement of the involves the core priorities of delivery and LLSAP support, Illinois State Library (ISL), decided to move toward a merger which are in many ways interconnected. process. Merging library systems, through economies of scale, would allow systems statewide to require fewer funds to perform the same essential tasks, defined by the state library as: delivery, automation, and talking books services. IHLS Though the state library originally encouraged the formation of During the planning stages of the IHLS merger, a working a single statewide system, there eventually emerged two entities. group
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