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The Waukegan Public Library is the public library serving Waukegan, Illinois. It is at the intersection of County and Clayton streets in downtown Waukegan, near the county government complex. The library has approximately 205,000 books as of 2011, [1] and recorded a total of 338,615 library visits in fiscal year 2005. [2]
Henderson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States Census, it has a population of 6,387. [1] Its county seat is Oquawka. [2] Henderson County is part of the Burlington, IA–IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.
FOLUSA joined with the Association for Library Trustees and Advocates (ALTA) to form United for Libraries USA in 2009. [49] The National Library of South Africa has a Friends of Libraries group. [50] In Australia, the Friends of Libraries Australia (FOWL) was created in the mid-1990s and one of the founding patrons was Michael Kirby. [51]
In March 2011, the Mighty Twig volunteer-run library opened at 900 Chicago Avenue in Evanston, "as an experiment by Evanston Public Library Friends in response to the closing of the South Branch." [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Then, in August-September, 2012, the Evanston Public Library's Board voted to "begin formalizing relations with The Mighty Twig."
There is a separate category for individual libraries in Illinois. Pages in category "Library districts in Illinois" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The library system has worked with the Illinois Library Association and received support from the American Library Association Digital Content Working Group, the Public Library Association (PLA), and the Illinois Heartland Library System on the annual Soon to be Famous Illinois Author project, which recognizes a self-published author of adult ...
Friends groups are very diverse, including Friends of state libraries, individual libraries, library systems, teen Friends, and even Friends foundations. [39] The first “Friends of the Library” group was founded in Paris in 1913 as a support group for the Bibliothèque Nationale .
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Illinois provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Illinois, where 106 public libraries were built from 105 grants (totaling $1,661,200) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1903 to 1914. In addition, academic libraries were built at five institutions ...