[Libs-Or] Fwd: [PubLib] By May 19! Signatures of a Majority of Senators on Both the LSTA and IAL Letters for FY 2018

Tue May 9 08:38:53 PDT 2017

Wyden has signed the LSTA letter.  Merkley hasn’t signed either yet.  So please ask Merkley to sign the letter. You can contact his aide that knows us and libraries.
Jamie Moore, Legislative Aid  Jamie_moore at merkley.senate.gov

Thanks,

Janet Webster

> On May 9, 2017, at 8:29 AM, Diedre Conkling <diedre08 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It's time for everyone to contact Congress again - TODAY!
> If both of your state's U.S. Senators haven't already signed both the LSTA and IAL letters for FY 2018 (and only CT, HI, MA, MI, NH, NJ, RI, VT and WI have "doubled" so far), please ask everyone on your lists to use ALA's Fight for Libraries! webpage to contact their two Senators' offices and ask them to sign the two separate "Dear Appropriator" letters for LSTA and IAL on or before May 19.
> http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries <http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries>
> For history and reasons why this is so important, please read the entire letter below:
> Thank you and your members for the tremendous effort . . . and success . . . generating support in the House of Representatives for FY 2018 LSTA and IAL funding in the form of Member signatures on our champions' "Dear Appropriator" letters. In just 10 days, we succeeded in topping last year's signer totals by 14% for IAL and a fabulous 64% for LSTA, netting a full third of all House Members on each letter!   ( See https://airtable.com/shruwZPRyL5f2CbQS/tbl3v3Ts6KMDMSyJ1 <https://airtable.com/shruwZPRyL5f2CbQS/tbl3v3Ts6KMDMSyJ1> )
> Now, we've got until just May 19 - less than 10 business days - to set Member signature records in the Senate where Sens. Reed and Collins have circulated a letter backing $186.6 million in FY 2018 funding for LSTA and Sens. Reed, Grassley and Stabenow have done the same in support of $27 million for IAL. Based on many meetings conducted last week with Senate staff during National Library Legislative Day, it's clear that we must secure the signatures of a majority of Senators - 51 Members and preferably more - on both the LSTA and IAL letters for FY 2018 if these vital programs are to have the best chance of surviving Congress' likely coming budget cuts. (See http://www.districtdispatch.org/2017/04/fight-library-funding-u-s-senate/ <http://www.districtdispatch.org/2017/04/fight-library-funding-u-s-senate/> )
> Once again, OGR is maintaining an up to the minute and sortable online tracker showing which Senators have signed which letter(s). (See https://airtable.com/shrbwBqmeYMWSYu2f/tblibE5jSCHVLvFmx/viw6jssU5hI83m3jY <https://airtable.com/shrbwBqmeYMWSYu2f/tblibE5jSCHVLvFmx/viw6jssU5hI83m3jY> )
> We've also prepared short, individual LSTA "issue briefs" showing how much funding flowed through the program to every state in the country over the past five years. The briefs also provide compelling real examples about how that money has been productively used in every individual state to make a real difference in the real world.   (See http://www.ala.org/advocacy/state-lsta-funding-history <http://www.ala.org/advocacy/state-lsta-funding-history> )
> So, now it's time for all of your members to contact Congress again - TODAY!
> If both of your state's U.S. Senators haven't already signed both the LSTA and IAL letters for FY 2018 (and only CT, HI, MA, MI, NH, NJ, RI, VT and WI have "doubled" so far), please ask everyone on your lists to use ALA's Fight for Libraries! webpage to contact their two Senators' offices and ask them to sign the two separate "Dear Appropriator" letters for LSTA and IAL on or before May 19.
> http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries <http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries>
> Then, please also ask them to do anything and everything they can to encourage their families, friends, customers, contractors, vendors, employees, casual acquaintances and dog-walkers to do the same!
> We set records in the House and I know that, together, we can do it again in the Senate.  As ALA President Julie Todaro said in a recent email, "We must!"  Thanks again,
> Adam
> Adam Eisgrau, Managing Director
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