Consortium Updates

March 26, 2026 Update

Register for Annual Meeting

The Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium’s (EILC) annual council meeting is scheduled for 2pm (ET) on Thursday, April 23. Each member library holds a seat on the council and their director or their designee votes on matters of bylaws and committee membership. We’ll present a 2025 review of the consortium and approve the slate of committee nominations.If your director or designee has not registered, please do so!

Committee Nominations Are Open!

The Evergreen Indiana Library Consortium is member governed, with volunteers from member libraries representing their colleagues, peers, and communities on the Executive, Cataloging, Patron Services, Aspen, and eContent Committees. The Executive Committee is the main governance board for the consortium.The Cataloging, Patron Services, Aspen, and eContent subcommittees create, clarify, and refine procedures related to work in member libraries as well as make policy recommendations to the Executive Committee.

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2026 Committee Election ballot. Self nominations are encouraged!  The following seats will be open. The call for nominations will close on Friday, April 3rd at 8:00 am EST.  The slate of nominees will be presented at the Annual Evergreen Indiana Council Meeting to be held on Thursday, April 23rd at 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. CT for approval by the Library Council.  Please remember that each Evergreen Indiana member library is a council member being represented by their library director or designee

If you would like to submit a nomination to candidacy for a seat on one of the Evergreen Indiana committees, please fill out this form.

Seats to be filled are as follows:

  • Executive Committee
    • 2 Class A library representatives – 3 year term (2026-2029)
    • Class B library representative – 3 year term (2026-2029)
  • Patron Services Committee
    • Class B library representative – 3 year term (2026-2029)
    • Class C library representative – 3 year term (2026-2029)
  • Cataloging Committee

Open to active Cat1 or Cat2 staff at member libraries

  • eContent Committee
    • Open to member library staff
  • Aspen Committee
    • Open to member library staff

If you have any questions about the Annual Library Council meeting or governance elections, please feel free to email Courtney directly or reach out to any current committee member (contact information located here). 

Upcoming Barcode Buying Pool

Our next buying pool is occurring April 13 – 17! For more information, please check out the calendar event.

LibraryIQ Subscribers

For those libraries that subscribe to LibraryIQ, join us on April 22nd at 1:00 pm EST for a walk-through of LibraryIQ’s essential tools, a look at new features released over the last few months, and time at the end for questions. Register here.

EILC Admin Team Out of Office

The EILC Admin Team will be in Seattle, WA for the Evergreen International Conference April 6 through 11. Our access to email and the helpdesk will be limited, but we will respond as soon as we are able.