[Libs-Or] [Fwd: [ALACOUN:14341] Members Action requested for Head Start Reauthorization]

[Diedre Conkling]

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From: Chris Olson <olsonc at macalester.edu>
Date: 2005/04/06 Wed AM 11:20:52 PDT
To: ALA Council List <alacoun at ala.org>
Subject: [ALACOUN:14341] Members Action requested for Head Start Reauthorization


ALA Council:   I am posting this message on behalf of Gretchen Wronka, 
ALSC President AND encouraging you to show your support by sending a 
letter to your U.S. senator and representative.   Thank you.

Chris Olson
Minnesota Chapter Councilor

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Dear colleagues, Many of you responded quickly and articulately to the 
request from the ALA Washington Office for descriptions of your 
partnerships with local Head Start programs.  The Office and I are 
thrilled with the hundreds of messages you sent...what an amazing and 
gratifying number of fine programs librarians across the country have 
developed to meet the needs of children in Head Start programs and their 
families. Congratulations to you all!  The Office is using these 
descriptions to inform the work its doing with individual members of 
Congress.  I hope that we'll be able to make a compilation available for 
ALSC members who are interested in seeing what's going on.

ALA/ALSC are moving to the next step and need your help once again.  
Attached is a sample letter for you to use with your own member of 
Congress, encouraging him or her to support Head Start reauthorization 
with the library language included.  Congress is beginning work on the 
reauthorization now.  We want ALSC members and partners in other ALA 
divisions to flood Congress with this letter!  Please personalize the 
attached letter by adding your signature and address and e-mail it using 
ALA's action link 
<http://www.ala.org/ala/issues/takeaction/takeaction.htm>today!  Thank 
you for your advocacy on this important initiative. Together we can have 
a powerful impact that can ensure the success of this important ALA/ALSC 
initiative.

Gretchen Wronka
President, Association for Library Service to Children
Youth Services and Outreach Coordinator
Hennepin County Library
12601 Ridgedale Drive
Minnetonka, MN 55305
952-847-8546


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Diedre Conkling
     
  Lincoln County Library District
  P.O. Box 2027, Newport, OR  97365
  Phone & Fax:  541-265-3066
  http://lcld.library-blogs.net/
  Work:  diedre at mail.crsn.lib.or.us
  Home:  diedrec at charter.net
   
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