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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
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| Representatives wish to congratulate Paula Weiss on the |
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| occasion of her retirement in June 2004 as Director of the |
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| Pekin Public Library; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Weiss has been employed at the Pekin Public |
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| Library for 33 years, 22 as director; she was hired as a |
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| cataloger in 1971, she was quickly promoted to Head of |
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| Children's Services (1971) then to Head of Adult Services |
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| (1978) before she was appointed Director in 1982; and
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| WHEREAS, She expanded children's programming and services |
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| including moving into a new facility in 1974; she also managed |
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| a transition to automated cataloging, the interlibrary loan |
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| program, and automated library materials check-out; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Weiss authored the first State literacy grant |
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| for the Pekin YWCA; and she planned and purchased the first |
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| network for public Internet access; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Weiss has served as a delegate to the Illinois |
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| Regional White House Conference on Library and Information |
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| Services and was appointed to the Illinois State Library |
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| Subcommittee on Systems; and
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| WHEREAS, She received an Outstanding Achievement Award for |
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| Professions from the Pekin YWCA; she has made a great impact on |
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| the library during her tenure and set the stage for more |
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| changes to come; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| congratulate Paula Weiss on her retirement after many years of |
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| hard work and dedication to the Pekin Public Library; and we |