This issue of Insight from the Illinois State Library includes items entitled Illinois Authors Book Fair to feature big names in literature; Smithsonian exhibit to showcase WWII posters from IDA; PolyTalk seeks interpreters; 2007 Letters About Literature contest; Training Grants awarded; LibraryU surpasses 5,000-user mark; State Library at the 2006 Illinois State Fair; and Federal document online conversion project.
Participants in Bright Start College Savings will no longer ever have to pay federal income taxes on money they put into their accounts, Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka said today. A new law taking effect this month makes all income that is invested in Bright Start completely exempt from federal taxation.
This Special IRAD Anniversary Issue newsletter describes research tools and resources made available by the Illinois State Archives. Articles in this issue include "Regional Archives Depository system celebrates 30 years;" "Former IRAD Interns;" "2006-2007 IRAD interns
Press release stating that, despite some notable progress, gaps persist in bringing Latino students into the full educational mainstream in Illinois. That message will be the focus of presentations by two prominent Latino academic leaders when the Illinois Board of Higher Education convenes at the University Center of Lake County on October 9. Sylvia Puente, director of the Metropolitan Chicago Initiative in the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and Dr. Jorge Chapa, director of the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will address the Board on the needs, challenges, and opportunities in serving the Latino population.