[Libs-Or] Fwd: [alacro-l] URGENT: Support Federal Library Funding for FY2017 Now!

[Suzanne Sager]

FYI,

Suzanne L. Sager


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From: Emily Sheketoff <esheketoff at alawash.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 12:45 PM
Subject: [alacro-l] URGENT: Support Federal Library Funding for FY2017 Now!
To: "alacro-l at lists.ala.org" <alacro-l at lists.ala.org>


Please forward to all your listservs and networks



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*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 here
<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.



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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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