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 1                          HOUSE RESOLUTION

 2        WHEREAS, The members of the House of  Representatives  of
 3    the  State  of  Illinois  are pleased to congratulate Carolyn
 4    Anthony on being named Librarian of the Year in Illinois  for
 5    2003; and

 6        WHEREAS,   Mrs.  Anthony  has  been  the  director of the
 7    Skokie Public Library since 1985; she has helped to  maintain
 8    the  standard of excellence in the library, which was founded
 9    in 1929 and has been tax-supported since 1941; and

10        WHEREAS,  Mrs.  Anthony  attended  Colby  College  as  an
11    English major; her first library job was at Harvard's Widener
12    Library; she went on to work at the Enoch  Pratt  Library  in
13    Baltimore,  Maryland  and then at the Baltimore County Public
14    Library as the head of information services; and

15        WHEREAS, During her tenure  as  director  of  the  Skokie
16    Public  Library,  Mrs.  Anthony  has  worked to implement new
17    programs and to improve the facility; the biggest change  has
18    been  an addition of 34,000 square feet to give the library a
19    total of 134,000 square feet; the  library  houses  extensive
20    reference  and  technology resources; it attracts many people
21    because they can check out books under a reciprocal borrowing
22    system; there are 95 feet of meeting rooms; the library hosts
23    The Great Book Discussion, which is  in  its  40th  year  and
24    meets once a month; the first Sunday of every month, there is
25    a classical music performance; and

26        WHEREAS,  In  addition  to literature in Chinese, Korean,
27    and Polish, the library has 7,500 Russian books; there  is  a
28    Russian  club,  a  book  discussion  group  for teens, a teen
29    advisory group, and a large foreign film section as  well  as
30    Friday  movies and daily movies on a new plasma screen; books
31    are available in braille, and there  are  resources  for  the
32    hearing impaired; therefore, be it
 
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 1        RESOLVED,   BY   THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES  OF  THE
 2    NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,  that
 3    we  congratulate Carolyn Anthony on being named the Librarian
 4    of the Year in Illinois for 2003; and be it further

 5        RESOLVED, That a suitable  copy  of  this  resolution  be
 6    presented to Mrs. Anthony as an expression of our respect and
 7    esteem.