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Glen Ellyn Public Library Awarded Curiosity Creates Grant

The Glen Ellyn Public Library was selected to receive $7,500 from the Association Library Services for Children's Curiosity Creates Grant. The Glen Ellyn Public Library was one of seventy-nine libraries awarded the grant from over 400 submitted applications. "We are thrilled and incredibly honored...

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Big Read Kicks Off at Waukegan Public Library!

The Waukegan Public Library is excited to announce three special events that will kick off its four-month Big Read, Fahrenheit 451! The festivities will run from Friday, Oct. 30, through Saturday, Oct. 31. As Halloween was Ray Bradbury's favorite holiday, the timing couldn't be more perfect. 10th...

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Book Group site for RSA members

Book group members—are you looking for titles to read for next year? Are you wondering what other book groups are reading? Did you know that RSA members have a site that lists the books being read by central Illinois book groups at http://rsabookgroups.pbworks.com ? You can see the titles that were...

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La Grange Park Library offers more than just books and story times

From the October 14 edition of the Suburban Life: http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2015/10/12/la-grange-park-public-library-o...

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Fox River Valley Public Libraries continue Designing Our Future discussion

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elgin-courier-news/news/ct-ecn-fox...

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Community Leaders Express Support for Peoria Public Library in Video

Peoria Public Library celebrated 135 years with a gala fundraiser, "What's Your Story" on Monday, October 12. The well-attended event featured the author of The Aviator's Wife , Melanie Benjamin; book talks by interesting Peorians, a Silent Auction that included a flight in a WWII Warbird and a...

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Illinois Libraries Celebrate Shakespeare

#DiscoverWill: Illinois Libraries Celebrate Shakespeare’s First Folio In February, 2016, libraries across the state will join together in an unprecedented collaborative reading and programming initiative. This program, titled #DiscoverWill: Illinois Libraries Celebrate Shakespeare’s First Folio ,...

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GIF IT UP Challenge

Calling all GIF-makers, creatives, history nuts, and animators! GIF IT UP , a challenge coordinated by DigitalNZ and the Digital Public Library of America to find the best GIFs created from copyright-free heritage material, runs until November 21. Following the inaugural GIF IT UP in 2014 , the...

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3rd Annual Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference

Call for Proposals On behalf of the Conference Program Committee, we invite you to submit a proposal for the 3rd Annual Great Lakes Resource Sharing Conference. The event will be held in Indianapolis, IN at the Sheraton Indianapolis at Keystone Crossing. This conference is an opportunity for...

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Call for Proposals: Civic Engagement & the Remaking of the Urban Social Contract

From the 2015 Urban Forum Action Project: As part of the 2015 Urban Forum hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago, The Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement (IPCE) together with The Chicago Community Trust (CCT) are pleased to announce a partnership and funding opportunity for a project...

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