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The Illinois State Library (ISL) is the official State Library of Illinois located in Springfield, Illinois. [2] The library has a collection of 5 million items and serves as regional federal documents depository for the state. [3] The library oversees the Talking Book and Braille Service which offers audio and braille library service to ...
Story at a glance Illinois became the first state in the country to outlaw the practice of banning books Monday. Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.) signed a bill into law that withholds state funding for ...
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday signed into law a bill that he says will make Illinois the first state in the nation to outlaw book bans. Illinois public libraries that restrict or ban ...
The NLS was established by an act of Congress in 1931, and was amended in 1934 to include sound recordings (talking books). The program was expanded in 1952 to include blind children, in 1962 to include music materials, and in 1966 to include individuals with physical impairments that prevent the reading of standard print. [ 6 ]
The Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the United States and second-largest library in the world with over 167 million holdings, including 39 million books and other printed recordings, 14.8 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music, and 72 million manuscripts
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The Reaching Across Illinois Library System is a regional library system consisting of approximately 1,250 public, academic, special, and school library members, representing more than 4,000 library facilities in Northern, West-central Illinois. The regional library system was created in 2011 when the Alliance Library System, DuPage Library ...