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Current issue

September 2024 | Volume XLII, Issue 3

Creaciones del Sueño: Northern Illinois University Libraries Welcomes Alebrijes Exhibit
Drew VandeCreek & Gwen Gregory, Northern Illinois University Libraries
How Illinois is Helping to Stop Book Banning, One State at a Time
Holly Eberle, ILA Intellectual Freedom Committee & Algonquin Area Public Library & Emily Hampston, Palos Park Public Library
A Conversation with Carey Pietsch
Becca Boland, Illinois Library Association
What Does a Genealogy & Local History Librarian Do?
EvaAnne Johnson, Wilmette Public Library
Public Libraries and “The Human Library®”
Lynette Bromiel, Naperville Public Library
Read, Renew, Repeat in 2024: iREAD® Roundup
Becca Boland, Illinois Library Association

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