[Libs-Or] ACTION: Call Your Senators Today

[Diedre Conkling]

*Contact your U.S. senators - ask them to sign on to library funding letter*

The deadline for U.S. senators to sign on to the Senate “Dear Colleague”
letter for libraries is close of business Wednesday.  You are receiving this
e-mail because we need many more senators to sign onto this letter.  While
the economic climate has forced legislators to think critically about the
FY2012 budget, the reality is that libraries provide one of the best returns
on investment in the federal budget.



Senators Jack Reed and Olympia Snowe are leading an effort to increase
support for FY2012 federal funding for the Library Services and Technology
Act (LSTA) and Improving Literacy Through School Libraries.  We need other
senators to sign the Reed-Snowe letter as soon as possible.  Please call
immediately.

*To reach your senators’ offices, call (202) 224-3121 and ask to be directed
to their office. Tell them that you’d like them to sign on to the “Dear
Colleague” supporting library funding, which is being circulated by Senators
Jack Reed and Olympia Snowe.*  Describe at least one valuable service that
your library provides the community or a success story about a library
patron.  Examples include access to computers and data services to aid job
searchers, support for small businesses with marketing data and other
resources as well as teaching digital literacy to people of all ages
including K-12 students.

After they agree to sign on the letter, ask them to contact Elyse Wasch in
Reed’s office or Matthew Hussey in Snowe’s office.

As of 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7, these senators have not yet signed on to
this year’s “Dear Colleague” but did sign onto last year’s letter:

Wyden – OR

Johnson – SD

Brown – OH

Bingaman – NM

Stabenow – MI

Cardin – MD

Menendez – NJ

Begich – AK

Kohl  - WI

Durbin – IL

Sanders – VT

Mikulski – MD

Gillibrand – NY

Lautenberg – NJ

Baucus – MT

Shaheen – NH

Merkley – OR

Udall, Mark – CO

Lieberman – CT

Casey – PA

Tester - MT



District Dispatch from the ALA Washington Office at
http://www.districtdispatch.org/



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*Diedre Conkling**
Lincoln County Library District
P.O. Box 2027
Newport, OR 97365
Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066
Work email**: **diedre at lincolncolibrarydist.org*<diedre at lincolncolibrarydist.org>
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Home email: **diedre08 at gmail.com* <diedre08 at gmail.com>

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