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“400 Years of Discovery: From Galileo to NASA” came to North Central College's Clare and Lucy Oesterle Library with a program on November 10, 2009. Seventy guests were present for the official unveiling of high-tech NASA images of the Milky Way. Th...

Did you bust the myth that it takes a huge time commitment to explore WebJunction Illinois? DLS e-News invited WebJunction's team to write a guest article on ways to become acquainted with WJIL by investing a small amount of your time each day...

Date: January 14 to 29, 2010 Instructor: Steven McDonald, J.D., General Counsel, Rhode Island School of Design This online workshop will help you evaluate and answer some of the many questions that flow from the process of policy development within the arena of higher education. Who owns the work...

Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009. Location: Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF), 224 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL. The High School Library Media Association (HSLMA) will be holding a presentation of the educational resources available to you, your colleagues, and your students...

The Save Illinois Libraries campaign will take a break after November 20, 2009. If you haven't visited the site and alerted those in your social network to do the same, please take a moment to send a message to your legislators.

The ALA Public Programs Office is pleased to partner with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the seventh We the People Bookshelf project. This year's theme is A More Perfect Union, and will complement library programs observing the sesquicentennial of the Civil War...

A father and son team created a replica of the Glen Ellyn Public Library with LEGOS. The team's replica of the local theater is displayed at the library, and library officials asked the team to work on a model of the library...

The Carol Stream Public Library's renovation project is underway!The main library entrance is closed to the public. A temporary entrance is located to the west of the main entrance. You can follow the renovation progress on Flickr and on Facebook.

On November 9, 2009, 75 Illinois library leaders met to discuss the future of library cooperation...

By Tom SloanExecutive Director, DuPage Library SystemWhat DLS services are most important to you?  An online survey will be issued by DLS in December requesting members to rank DLS services....

These days many of us are concerned about going green. We've started recycling--everything from paper to glass, from batteries to computers. But, what about our buildings...

Reading Room: Library SystemsMany of you who use public libraries may know that they are members in “library systems” but are, quite likely, unsure of what this means. I’...

Bob Watson, Director of the Lake Villa District Library, explains library systems and makes a strong appeal for readers to visit Save Illinois Libraries in this TribLocal post...

A Brief Introduction to Federal, State, and Local Government Documents will be presented by Scott Casper, Government Documents Librarian at Poplar Creek Public Library, on December 1, 2009. This presentation is sponsored by the DLS Reference Roundtable, but all are welcome to attend...