Picture of WIU Librarians and friends on Founder's Day
WIU Librarians & Friends @ Founder's Day!

Look Who's Supporting Us!
CARLI | Illinois Library Assn. | IBHE (Faculty Adv. Council) | RAILS State Agency | ACRL President Leo Lo | Cook County CTU | CSU Faculty Senate | CSU Librarians | GSU Librarians | ISU Librarians | NEIU Librarians | NIDL Librarians | NILRC | NIU Librarians | SIU-E Librarians | UCW/Univ. of Virginia Librarians | Elgin CC Faculty | ISU Faculty Senate | Council of Illinois University Senates | SIU-E Faculty Senate | Univ. of St. Francis ExCo Assembly | WIU Faculty Senate | Health Science Librarians of Illinois | Univ of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Dean of Libraries & Librarian Faculty) | UIUC's Lisa Hinchliffe | Dominican Univ. Faculty (School of Info. Studies) | Washington Post's Ron Charles | ALA President Drabinski | A Very Cool 5th Grader | UPI @ WIU | AFT | MORE...!
We Appreciate You ALL!


As seen in the Community News Brief:
Keeping Faith with WIU's Students Since 1902


FOLLOW-UP
FOIA Confirmations!
Earlier this semester, a WIU Admin official asserted to the Faculty Senate Exec. Cmte., that sister univ. ISU employed only "3" librarians. A few FOIA requests corrected the record:
    IL Public Univs.     # Librarians w/ MLS
NIU22
ISU17
SIU-E15
EIU13
WIU*0
*per recent termination letters


Saluting Margaret Dunbar -- WIU's First Librarian

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A recent analysis that compared WIU against its institutional peers (as selected by the WIU Board of Trustees), shows that Western will soon drop to the very bottom of the heap regarding levels of librarian support for students.