Witness Slips for Faculty Librarians

[William Thompson]

From Merrill Cole,

This Bill won’t stop the immediate madness of firing every single librarian at WIU, but could eventually lead to preventing these kinds of nutty terminations in the future and possibly compell WIU to restaff the library with faculty librarians at some hopefully not infinitely distant point. 

Filling out a witness slip only takes a few minutes.

Best wishes 

William Thompson

(563) 293-6946‬

wat100....@gmail.com / My Calendar / 

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Date: Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Colleagues,

Resolution SJR0013 is now in the Senate Higher Education Committee.  This is a bipartisan resolution calling for the creation of a task force to explore the role of faculty librarians in academic libraries. As you know, the WIU administration sent layoff letters to all of our faculty librarians in August, and we are seeing the importance of faculty librarians questioned and challenged on several other campuses in Illinois and across the country. We need to reverse this trend for our students, our communities, and our faculty.

 

Specifically, the bill  “creates the University Library & Professional Librarian Access & Transparency Task Force to examine the current state of libraries and professional librarianship on Illinois public university campuses and present a recommendation to the General Assembly to ensure that public academic libraries and the educational services provided by professional librarian faculty remains a viable and healthy benefit to Illinois students.“

 

We expect Senator Halpin to call the bill on Wednesday, March 5 at 8:30 a.m.  To help support the resolution, we need witness slips in its favor.

 

To fill out a witness slip, click the following link:

 

https://my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/Create/159313?committeeHearingId=21567&LegislationId=159313&LegislationDocumentId=199102

Under "II. Representation," put "Self." Under "III. Position," mark Proponent. Under "IV. Testimony," mark Record of Appearance Only, unless you want to submit written testimony. At the bottom of the witness slip, agree to the ILGA terms and click Create(slip).

Best,

Merrill

[Ruth]

I just completed a  witness slip and it is an easy way to show support for librarians. 

Thanks to all the committee members who helped plan the WWIH event Saturday. It was wonderful and Becky's pictures were great. Thanks to all those who helped plan and execute a wonderful event to start Women's Herstory Month.

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