[Libs-Or] Fwd: [alacro-l] Help Our LSTA / IAL Library Champions Help Us Now!

[Suzanne Sager]

FYI,

Suzanne L. Sager

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From: Don Wood <dwood at ala.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:00 PM
Subject: [alacro-l] Help Our LSTA / IAL Library Champions Help Us Now!
To: "alacro-l at lists.ala.org" <alacro-l at lists.ala.org>


*Help Our LSTA* */* *IAL Library Champions Help Us Now!*



It's that time of year again when Congressional cost-cutters sharpen their
budget knives and go looking for under-supported federal programs to slash
or discontinue.



·         Last year, now Speaker of the House Paul Ryan proposed completely
eliminating IMLS and with it over $200 million in funding for the Library
Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and Innovative Approaches to Literacy
(IAL).

·         Both of these programs are potentially on the chopping block this
year and it's up to you to help save them.



Library champions in Congress are now circulating "Dear Appropriator"
letters to their colleagues urging members of the powerful Senate and House
Appropriations Committees to fully fund LSTA and IAL (See the letters
<http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/FY2017-LIBRARY-FUNDING-SUPPORT-LETTERS-2.pdf>:
http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/FY2017-LIBRARY-FUNDING-SUPPORT-LETTERS-2.pdf
).



·         Please take just five minutes to contact your Representative in
the House and both of your U.S. Senators and ask them to sign these letters
(one each for LSTA and IAL in each chamber of Congress).

·         Your help, and these funds, make a huge difference in what
libraries and librarians can do for their patrons in every corner of the
country.

·         These "Dear Appropriator" letters carry tremendous weight with
the Appropriations Committee. The more Members of Congress who sign them,
the more likely LSTA and IAL - and the millions of Americans they help
every year - are to survive and thrive.



Time is short! Please, contact both your Senators and Representative now.



 Send an Email
<http://cqrcengage.com/ala/app/take-action?engagementId=178333> or Make a
Call <http://cqrcengage.com/ala/app/take-action?engagementId=178353> or Send
a Tweet <http://cqrcengage.com/ala/app/take-action?engagementId=178313> or
all three!



Don Wood
Program Officer
Chapter Relations Office
<http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/cro/index.cfm>
American Library Association
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
dwood at ala.org
1-800-545-2433, ext. 2429; 312-280-2429
312-280-4392 (fax)

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thing.”—Albert Schweitzer

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Yousafzai

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-- 
Suzanne L. Sager
Oregon ALA Representative
Portland State University Library
PO Box 1151
Portland, OR  97207-1151

Phone: 503-725-8169
Fax: 503-725-5799

email: sagers at pdx.edu
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