When Julie Milavec thinks back on the past 12 months, her sigh gets long and heavy, almost comically so. Not that there was anything funny about being director of the Downers Grove Public Library this ...

The Illinois Secretary of State’s office has awarded more than $1.3 million to the UI System for library service programs. In a Monday press release, Secretary of State and State Librarian Alexi ...

After it shuts its doors on Friday evening, the Undergraduate Library will be closed for construction as part of a years-long project to transform it into a new “Special Collections Facility” for the ...

This photo from the University of Illinois Library's website about upcoming renovations shows the area that is slated to be demolished and replaced with a new interdisciplinary liberal arts center.

SPRINGFIELD — Amid coordinated efforts throughout the nation to ban books from library shelves, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has drafted legislation designed to support public and ...

UPDATE: On Thursday, Naperville’s DuPage Children’s Museum was notified that its grant for $84,000 in institute funding to support the travel of a bilingual exhibit to Illinois public libraries was ...

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One for the books: The Illinois Library Association’s 1998 Librarian of the Year would rather talk about his library’s staff and board than himself. That helps explain why the entire management staff ...