[Sigia-l] IA Practice Maturation in Chicago

[Theresa Ross]

Chicago and Illinois has heavily embraced the e-gov mantra so there are
number of gov employees, consultants, etc. who do IA part-time.  The most
interesting piece/project that has come out of this shift to make the web
friendly and conducive to doing business in Illinois is the Find It!
Illinois portal (http://www.finditillinois.org/).  The Illinois State
Library maintains it with the help of the webmasters at the various other
state agenices and numerous other individuals.  A thesaurus for government
on the web was created as part of this project and is shared by several
states, including Washington.

This has been a great discussion!

Teri Ross Embrey
Automation Coordinator
Chicago Library System
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