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Thinking Together - Working Together: Illinois Statewide Project Highlights

Illinois has a history of collaboration and cooperation between libraries of all types, the regional library systems, and the Illinois State Library. Looking towards the future, Illinois projects hihghlight new technologies and services. Looking towards the past, Digital Illinois helps to preserve history by harvesting digital collections throughout the state compiled from the resources of Illinois libraries.

images from Digital Past

Additional examples of Illinois collaborative projects with statewide impact inlude...

  • Ask?Away Illinois, our virtual reference tool
  • Polytalk, a network of volunteer interpreters who help librarians and patrons communicate with one another.