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SR0348 - 104th General Assembly
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION | ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate wish to | ||||||
| 3 | congratulate Carol Vaughan Kissane on the occasion of being | ||||||
| 4 | named a 2025 Illinois Library Luminary by the Illinois Library | ||||||
| 5 | Association (ILA); and | ||||||
| 6 | WHEREAS, Illinois Library Luminaries is an honor roll for | ||||||
| 7 | Illinois libraries that serves the dual purpose of recognizing | ||||||
| 8 | outstanding voices in the library community who embody the | ||||||
| 9 | spirit and mission of the ILA while creating a legacy through | ||||||
| 10 | the ILA Endowment Fund to continue its important work; and | ||||||
| 11 | WHEREAS, Carol Vaughan Kissane has been a member of the | ||||||
| 12 | ILA since December 1990; during her tenure, she has served as a | ||||||
| 13 | member of the ILA Advocacy Committee, as president and | ||||||
| 14 | secretary of the ILA Library Trustee Forum (LTF), and as a | ||||||
| 15 | member of the 2015 and the 2018 Conference Program Committees; | ||||||
| 16 | she has also attended many ILA Legislative Meetups and LTF | ||||||
| 17 | Spring Workshops, and she was named the 2012 ILA Trustee of the | ||||||
| 18 | Year by her fellow trustees; and | ||||||
| 19 | WHEREAS, Carol Vaughan Kissane has served as a trustee of | ||||||
| 20 | her home library, the Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library, | ||||||
| 21 | since 1981 to 2025; during her 44-year incumbency, she has | ||||||
| 22 | remained dedicated to the success of the Brookfield Library | ||||||
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| 1 | Board of Trustees, only missing four board meetings, and she | ||||||
| 2 | has been behind a number of successful initiatives, including | ||||||
| 3 | generating the idea behind the Taste of Brookfield fundraiser, | ||||||
| 4 | which the library ran annually from 2006 to 2017; and | ||||||
| 5 | WHEREAS, Carol Vaughan Kissane has served in various | ||||||
| 6 | additional positions of leadership in local, regional, state, | ||||||
| 7 | and national library associations, where she has been noted as | ||||||
| 8 | a role model for library trustees at all levels of governance | ||||||
| 9 | and an asset to any board on which she has served; and | ||||||
| 10 | WHEREAS, Carol Vaughan Kissane has been a tireless | ||||||
| 11 | advocate and volunteer in the library community, always ready | ||||||
| 12 | to lend a helping hand, to welcome new trustees, and to share | ||||||
| 13 | her knowledge with others; therefore, be it | ||||||
| 14 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 15 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate Carol | ||||||
| 16 | Vaughan Kissane on being named a 2025 Illinois Library | ||||||
| 17 | Luminary by the Illinois Library Association (ILA), and we | ||||||
| 18 | thank her for her decades of service to the ILA and the Linda | ||||||
| 19 | Sokol Francis Brookfield Library; and be it further | ||||||
| 20 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 21 | presented to Carol Vaughan Kissane as an expression of our | ||||||
| 22 | esteem and respect. | ||||||