Full Text of HR0933 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Roberta Koscielski, | 4 | | Deputy Director of the Peoria Public Library, for being named | 5 | | the 2020 Librarian of the Year by the Illinois Library | 6 | | Association; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Roberta Koscielski earned her Associate of | 8 | | Science in LAS (Mathematics) from Illinois Valley Community | 9 | | College in May 1979; she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in | 10 | | Linguistics from the University of Illinois at | 11 | | Urbana-Champaign in May 1981; she earned her Master of Science | 12 | | in Library and Information Science from the University of | 13 | | Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 1982; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Roberta Koscielski has worked for the Peoria | 15 | | Public Library for over 35 years; prior to her current role as | 16 | | deputy director, she held positions as the Lakeview branch | 17 | | manager and as grant coordinator; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Roberta Koscielski has been an active attendee and | 19 | | presenter at Illinois Library Association (ILA) conferences; | 20 | | she presented a session titled Building Community Awareness of | 21 | | the Heroin/Opiates Epidemic in 2017; she was one of four | 22 | | presenters at the session Addressing the Opioid Epidemic: What |
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| 1 | | Libraries Need to Know during the 2018 conference; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Roberta Koscielski spearheaded a committee to | 3 | | create Peoria Reads!, a successful one city, one book program; | 4 | | she partnered with Common Place, an organization in which she | 5 | | volunteered as an adult literacy tutor and was a board member, | 6 | | to form Peoria Reads!; she joined the board of Neighborhood | 7 | | House, another local organization, after it partnered with | 8 | | Common Place; she also volunteers and serves as a board member | 9 | | of the Peoria Area Literacy Coalition; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Roberta Koscielski was nominated by Common Place | 11 | | and was selected to receive a Volunteer Service Award from | 12 | | President George W. Bush in January 2007, which President Bush | 13 | | presented to her while she stood at the foot of Air Force One; | 14 | | she received a Prescott E. Bloom Memorial Distinguished Service | 15 | | Award for volunteering in January 1993; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, In 2012, Roberta Koscielski was asked by the mayor | 17 | | of Peoria and the state's attorney to support the city's new | 18 | | initiative to decrease gang violence by promoting the book | 19 | | Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of | 20 | | Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy; her | 21 | | assistance led the Peoria Public Library to become a larger | 22 | | part of this initiative by hosting city meetings and "call-ins" | 23 | | with offenders; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, In 2016, Roberta Koscielski was asked again by the | 2 | | city to promote the book Dreamland: The True Tale of America's | 3 | | Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones; she saw the importance in | 4 | | public awareness of the opioid epidemic, especially after three | 5 | | patrons overdosed at the Peoria Main Library; she trained | 6 | | library staff administration on the use of naloxone or Narcan | 7 | | to reverse the effects of an overdose and trained her staff to | 8 | | recognize the signs of an overdose and respond; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Roberta Koscielski's work on promoting awareness | 10 | | of the opioid epidemic and training staff earned her a place as | 11 | | one of Library Journal's Movers and Shakers in 2018; she was | 12 | | also recognized in U.S. News & World Report as one of the "new | 13 | | first responders" in the opioid epidemic in January 2019; | 14 | | therefore, be it
| 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 16 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 17 | | we congratulate Roberta Koscielski on being named the 2020 | 18 | | Librarian of the Year, and we commend her for her dedication to | 19 | | the Peoria Public Library and her volunteerism for various | 20 | | community service initiatives; and be it further
| 21 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 22 | | presented to Roberta Koscielski as an expression of our esteem |
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