The planning panel for the southern Systems merger made progress last Friday and Saturday in several areas:

Membership criteria

• All current members of each library System will be grandfathered in as full members of the new merged system.  (This includes members of the Lewis & Clark, Lincoln Trail, Rolling Prairie, and Shawnee Library Systems.)
• Membership definitions are based solely on the definitions in the Illinois Library System Act and appropriate references in the Illinois Administrative Code.

Transition Board

• Approved members of the Transition Board.  Representing LCLS: Linda McDonnell (public library trustee), JoAnn Nabe (public library trustee), Diane Steele (public library director)

Delivery Standards

• Approved the Delivery Standards, pending endorsement and implementation by each of the four System boards.
• All aspects of the standards will be implemented in the short term (i.e. March-April, 2011).
• LCLS members will receive details regarding the standards as soon as possible following the March meeting of the LCLS Board of Directors (March 15, 2011)

New System Name

• Approved the name of the merged system as Illinois Heartland Library System.

Next meetings of the Planning Panel

• Friday, March 11, 3:30 p.m. — meeting via v-tel at each of the four System headquarters.  Agenda for the meeting is to review and finalize the Application for Merger document.
• Wednesday, March 23, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — meeting in-person at the Effingham Hilton Garden Inn.
• Friday, April 8, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — location TBD

Have a good week!
Leslie

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