Full Text of HR0760 95th General Assembly
HR0760 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Michael Madden on | 4 |
| the occasion of his 40th year as Director of the Schaumburg | 5 |
| Township District Library; and
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| WHEREAS, The Schaumburg Township District Library's | 7 |
| history begins in 1958, when a committee was organized to | 8 |
| investigate the formation of a library; the library opened in | 9 |
| 1963 in a house near the corner of Roselle and Schaumburg Road | 10 |
| in Schaumburg; in 1965, a new library on Library Lane was | 11 |
| opened, with its lower level and Children's Department opening | 12 |
| in 1968; in 1976, the library opened its first branch, the | 13 |
| Hoffman Estates Branch Library on Hassell Road; the library's | 14 |
| second branch, Hanover Park Branch Library, was opened in 1993; | 15 |
| the library moved into its current 166,500 square foot building | 16 |
| in Town Square in 1998; and
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| WHEREAS, Prior to his tenure as Director of the Schaumburg | 18 |
| Township District Library, Michael Madden worked as a teacher | 19 |
| in the Chicago Public Schools from 1961 to 1963; he worked as a | 20 |
| teacher and librarian at Ridgewood High School from 1963 until | 21 |
| 1965, when he accepted a position as a professional assistant | 22 |
| with the American Library Association, working there until | 23 |
| 1967, when he was selected to be the Director of the Schaumburg |
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| Township District Library; and
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| WHEREAS, Michael Madden served as an adjunct assistant | 3 |
| professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information | 4 |
| Science at Dominican University from 1983 to 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, Michael Madden earned his bachelor's degree in | 6 |
| English from Marquette University in 1960, his master's degree | 7 |
| in English from Loyola University in 1963, and his master's | 8 |
| degree in Library Science from the University of Chicago in | 9 |
| 1967; and
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| WHEREAS, Michael Madden is a member of the American Library | 11 |
| Association, the Illinois Library Association, and the Rotary | 12 |
| Club of Schaumburg/Hoffman Estates; and | 13 |
| WHEREAS, Under the superb leadership of Michael Madden, the | 14 |
| Schaumburg Township District Library has developed a | 15 |
| reputation of excellence that is worthy of the greatest | 16 |
| respect; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 18 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 19 |
| congratulate Michael Madden on the occasion of his 40th year as | 20 |
| Director of the Schaumburg Township District Library and wish | 21 |
| him continued success and happiness in the future; and be it |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 3 |
| presented to Michael Madden as a symbol of our esteem and | 4 |
| respect.
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