Full Text of HR0971 94th General Assembly
HR0971 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois are pleased to recognize the Rolling Prairie | 4 |
| Library System (RPLS) on the occasion of its 40th anniversary; | 5 |
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| WHEREAS, When RPLS was incorporated in October 1965, it had | 7 |
| five charter members, including Decatur Public Library, | 8 |
| Friends Creek Township Library in Argenta, Illiopolis Public | 9 |
| Library, Marrowbone Township Library in Bethany, and the | 10 |
| Vespasian Warner Public Library in Clinton; the first System | 11 |
| Director was Elizabeth Edwards, who joined the System in | 12 |
| February 1966; today, those five charter members are a part of | 13 |
| a System membership that includes 127 members, 9 academic, 46 | 14 |
| public, 48 school districts, and 24 special libraries, serving | 15 |
| a total of 264 individual library facilities; and
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| WHEREAS, Early services of the System included bookmobile | 17 |
| service, rotating collections, central book ordering and | 18 |
| processing, and a film collection; as libraries became more | 19 |
| self-sufficient, the services of the System changed to provide | 20 |
| consulting services, a wide range of continuing education and | 21 |
| training programs, delivery, and an automated circulation | 22 |
| system with a database of over 2.6 million library items for | 23 |
| 147 libraries; and
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| WHEREAS, Although library systems were first created to | 25 |
| promote and support public libraries, systems soon saw the need | 26 |
| to become multi-type, and in 1985 Rolling Prairie welcomed | 27 |
| academic, school, and special libraries to its membership with | 28 |
| representation on its Board of Directors; and
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| WHEREAS, Throughout Rolling Prairie Library System's forty | 30 |
| years of service, it has had only four directors; Elizabeth | 31 |
| Edwards, the original director, began in 1966; Ray Ewick became |
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| director in 1972; Robert Plotzke followed in October 1978; and | 2 |
| on July 1, 2005, Beverly Obert was named the current Executive | 3 |
| Director; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 5 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 6 |
| we recognize the Rolling Prairie Library System on the occasion | 7 |
| of its 40th anniversary; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 |
| presented to the Rolling Prairie Library System as an | 10 |
| expression of our esteem.
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