Jesse White
Secretary of State and State Librarian
Jean E. Wilkins
Director, Illinois State Library
Kathleen L. Bloomberg
Editor
Kristie Metrow
Assistant Editor
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Winter 2000 Springfield, Illinois Vol. 82 No. 1
Table of Contents
Librarianship as a Business......Sharon Campell..............................................81
Questions and Answers on Library Law: The Fair Labor Standards Act, Part I
Scott Uhler, Janet Petsche, Rinda Allison and Kathleen Henn..........................89
Illinois County Histories at the Illinois State Library
Raymond Collins, Sandra Fritz, David Johnson, Francie La Camera and Blaine Redemer.......................................................................................................92
Guidelines for Illinois Libraries Manuscripts................................................142

Illinois State Library Advisory Committee
2000

Name

Term Expires

Lydia Acosta
Fountaindale Public Library District, Bolingbrook

2000

Vandella Brown
East St. Louis Public Library

2002

David R. Bryant
LaGrange

2002

Nancy Buikema
Fulton Elementary School, Fulton

2002

Vickie Cook
Kaskaskia Community College, Centralia

2002

Prudence Dalrymple
Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Dominican University, River Forest

2002

Mary Dempsey
The Chicago Public Library

2002

Rodney F. Dinges
Chatham

2002

Eileen Dubin
DeKalb

2002

Dale Hoover
Danville

2000

Jan Ison
Lincoln Trail Libraries System, Champaign

2002

Deborah Johnson-Small
Illinois Department of Human Services, Springfield

2002

Mary Kay Kickels
Palos Hills

2000

Alien Lanham
Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston

2002

Susan Lucco
Lewis & dark Library System, Edwardsville

2002

Robert Plotzke
Rolling Prairie Library System, Decatur

2002

Mary Wyly
Newberry Library, Chicago

2000

Jane Yoder
Waukegan Community Unit Schools, District 60

2000

Arthur P. Young
Founders Memorial Library, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb

2002

Kathleen Zar
University of Chicago

2000

Ex Officio Member Carolyn Anthony, President, Illinois Library Association

Jesse White
Secretary of State

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE

Dear Friends,

The Illinois State Library's collection encompasses many areas of interest to state government and Illinois citizens. More than 5 million items are represented in the collection with an emphasis on governmental topics and current factual and reference information. Special collections include federal and Illinois documents, an extensive map collection and books by Illinois authors. The library is a U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository Library, one of 87 in the country.

The collection also includes a special resource covered in this issue of Illinois Libraries: Illinois county histories. The county histories are of interest to a variety of library users, from historians to genealogists. I am very appreciative of the work that the State Library staff has done in preparing the bibliography of county histories in our collection. As a result, access to these materials will be expanded.

Illinois library service flourishes in part from the willingness of libraries to share materials in order to meet library users' needs. The county histories are just one small piece of the fabric of resource sharing in Illinois.

Sincerely,

JESSE WHITE
Secretary of State and State Librarian

Preface

Kathleen L. Bloomberg

A special part of the Illinois State Library's "On the Front Lines" conference in March was a program presented by Sharon Campbell, public library consultant for the Shawnee Library System in Carterville. Sharon's presentation, "Librarianship as a Business," was though-provoking and memorable. I am pleased that Sharon's presentation has been adapted as an article for this issue for those who were not able to attend the conference. The ideas brought forth are invaluable in reminding us to put ourselves in our library users' shoes.

The first article in a series about the Fair Labor Standards Act also is included in this issue. Beginning in 1996, attorneys from Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins, Ltd. have contributed articles to Illinois Libraries on legal issues affecting libraries. The articles have run the gamut from Internet access issues to the Open Meetings Act. The law firm's assistance in helping us asses and understand a variety of legal matters is very beneficial.

Last but not least, the work of five Illinois State library staff members is acknowledged and greatly appreciated. Raymond Collins, Sandra Fritz, David Johnson, Francie LaCamera and Blaine Redemer were relentless in developing the bibliography of Illinois county histories in the State Library's collection.