SWAN Board & Staff:

I want to provide you a quick overview of a positive situation for SWAN. The Franklin Park Public Library approached me over the summer about SWAN membership. Currently they are a member of the LINC consortium of 9 libraries.

I discussed the situation with Carol Dawe, Administrator of the LINC consortium, during our conference in Utah. The LINC board and member library directors were made aware of the developing situation. Franklin Park originally was a member of the DuPage Library System, but with the library system merger (resulting in the creation of RAILS), the options available to the library to switch consortia membership emerged. The library borders SWAN libraries nearby, so the Franklin Park library board has been interested in switching to SWAN for some time prior to contacting me. This decision was essentially driven by geography.

As a first step, the Franklin Park Public Library took board action last week on October 14 to terminate the LINC membership.  Until that took place, I was asked to keep this confidential. The board approved the termination with LINC for July 1, 2016.

The Franklin Park Library Board agenda is posted here:

http://www.franklinparklibrary.org/pdfs/agenda/Agenda2014oct.pdf

Next month we will need to discuss Franklin Park for membership approval, the RAILS LLSAP grants, and project timeline. I will work with Franklin Park on the next round of RAILS LLSAP grant funding.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly.

Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog@railslibraries.info
http://support.swanlibraries.net