<div dir="ltr"><div>FYI,</div><div><br></div><div>Suzanne L. Sager</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Don Wood</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dwood@ala.org">dwood@ala.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:00 PM<br>Subject: [alacro-l] Help Our LSTA / IAL Library Champions Help Us Now!<br>To: "<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:alacro-l@lists.ala.org">alacro-l@lists.ala.org</a>><br><br><br>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#777777">Help Our LSTA</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#777777">IAL Library Champions Help Us Now!<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#777777">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#777777">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). <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#777777">Both of these programs are potentially on the chopping block this year and it's up to you to help save them. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#777777">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 (<a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/FY2017-LIBRARY-FUNDING-SUPPORT-LETTERS-2.pdf" target="_blank">See the letters</a>:
<a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/FY2017-LIBRARY-FUNDING-SUPPORT-LETTERS-2.pdf" target="_blank">
http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/FY2017-LIBRARY-FUNDING-SUPPORT-LETTERS-2.pdf</a>). <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#777777">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). <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#777777">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#777777">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#777777">Time is short! Please, contact both your Senators and Representative now.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#777777"> <a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/app/take-action?engagementId=178333" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Send an Email</span></a> or
<a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/app/take-action?engagementId=178353" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Make a Call</span></a> or
<a href="http://cqrcengage.com/ala/app/take-action?engagementId=178313" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Send a Tweet</span></a> or all three!</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Don Wood<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”—Albert Schweitzer<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">“</span>One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen, can change the world.<span style="color:#1f497d">”—</span>Malala Yousafzai<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”—Anne Frank<u></u><u></u></p>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Suzanne L. Sager</span><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Oregon ALA Representative</span><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Portland State University Library</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">PO Box 1151</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Portland, OR 97207-1151</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Phone: </span><a value="+15037258169" style="color:rgb(0,0,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">503-725-8169</a><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Fax: </span><a value="+15037255799" style="color:rgb(0,0,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">503-725-5799</a><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">email: </span><a href="mailto:sagers@pdx.edu" style="color:rgb(0,0,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">sagers@pdx.edu</a></div></div></div></div>
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