The ISL-Grant-Discussion electronic list was designed to promote communication and discussion of grants awarded by the Illinois State Library to ILLINET member libraries. These grants include the federally funded LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) competitive grants, the state funded E&A (Education and Automate) competitive grants, public library per capita grants and school per capita grants. This list also includes information about various other publicly and privately funded grants.

The Illinois State Library encourages all ILLINET member librarians interested in grants and the grant process to subscribe to ISL-Grant-Discussion.

ILLINET member libraries are those academic, public, school and special libraries who are recognized by the Illinois State Library as members in good standing of their regional library systems, which automatically makes them members of the Illinois Library and Information Network (ILLINET), a statewide consortium of more than 4,000 libraries.

ISL-Grant-Discussion is an open, moderated list, that is, anyone can join the list; postings are moderated.

The ISL-E-Sharing list has been created by the Illinois State Library to provide Illinois library consortia and library groups with a way to share electronic resource purchase packages with all interested Illinois libraries. Any Illinois consortium or group--academic, public, school, special, regional library system and/or multi-type--is invited to post product information on ISL-E-Sharing. This list is open to everyone in the Illinois library community. Vendors with special offerings and/or pricing for Illinois libraries should contact consortial groups directly rather than post information on the ISL-E-Sharing list. The Illinois State Library is the owner and manager of ISL-E-Sharing, and Illinois State Library staff will moderate the list.

ISL-E-Sharing is an open, moderated list, that is, anyone can join the list and there is no limit to the number of subscriptions per library, however; postings are moderated.