Our Libraries

February 7, 2010

Illinois library community's e-mail campaign goes viral

Something pretty wonderful happened on Jan. 20. The Illinois library community started an e-mail message campaign and it went viral and it worked! Here's how it happened. The Illinois Regional Library Systems have not received allocated state monies and were at the breaking point. Without the systems, a lot of the infrastructure that keeps libraries going would be lost. The bad economy has driven users into libraries in record numbers and the disrupted connections between libraries would impa... More

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February 7, 2010 - Illinois library community's e-mail campaign goes viral

January 10, 2010 - Regional libraries have not received a funding increase since 1989

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Sarah Long's "Our Libraries" column in the Daily Herald is published the first Sunday of the month. The Daily Herald is Chicagoland's third largest daily newspaper, with a circulation of approximately 128,000.

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