<div>Many of you asked at the OLA Conference about when it would be time to contact our Senators about signing on to LSTA. Well, the time has come. Please contact Senators Merkely and Wyden now.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: Julie Todaro, ALA President <<a href="mailto:MemberValue@ala.org">MemberValue@ala.org</a>><br>Date: Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:44 AM<br>Subject: Fight for Senate Support of LSTA and IAL Funding is ON!<br>To: <<a href="mailto:diedre08@gmail.com">diedre08@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<font face="Arial" size="3" color="#000000"><p><span style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:115%">Dear ALA Members, Library Leaders, Volunteers, Vendors, and
All Library Users and Lovers:</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:115%">I promised
you I would be back! I’m writing you this morning because it’s time once again
to <strong><a href="http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02NTI3NDQzJnA9MSZ1PTEwMDczNTM5MjMmbGk9NDM1MDQxNjU/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fight for Libraries!</a></strong>
in Washington. As you will remember, that’s the campaign web page for federal
library funding advocacy we launched last month to enable all library supporters
to easily ask their member of the House of Representatives to #save IMLS and to
sign letters to the House Appropriations Committee specifically supporting LSTA
funding in FY 2018 of $186.6 million and $27 million for the Innovative Approaches
to Literacy (IAL) program. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:115%">And thousands
of you did! Ultimately, <strong><a href="http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02NTI3NDQzJnA9MSZ1PTEwMDczNTM5MjMmbGk9NDM1MDQxNjY/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">one-third of the entire House
of Representatives</a></strong> signed one or both of these vital “Dear Appropriator”
letters. Thank you! Now, we’ve got to do even better in the Senate, where
similar letters for LSTA and IAL are circulating right now. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:115%">It’s no exaggeration to say that “failure is not an option.”
With the President proposing the total elimination of IMLS and effectively all
federal library funding, we have to convince a majority of Senators to put their
support for LSTA and IAL in writing by signing the separate LSTA and IAL “Dear
Appropriator” letters our bipartisan champions have sent all their fellow Senators
to review. And we’ve got just a few short weeks to succeed. <br><br>At
<a href="http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02NTI3NDQzJnA9MSZ1PTEwMDczNTM5MjMmbGk9NDM1MDQxNjU/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fight for Libraries!</a>,
it’s fast and easy to <a href="http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02NTI3NDQzJnA9MSZ1PTEwMDczNTM5MjMmbGk9NDM1MDQxNjY/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">see if your two U.S. Senators
have signed</a> both of our letters and, if not, to take action now. As their
constituents, your request—not ALA’s or our lobbyists’—is the only one
that will really count. So... <br></span></p>
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<li><span style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:115%">Today, please use <a href="http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02NTI3NDQzJnA9MSZ1PTEwMDczNTM5MjMmbGk9NDM1MDQxNjU/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fight for Libraries!</a>
to contact the offices of both of your U.S. Senators by email, tweet or phone (or all three!). </span></li>
<li><span style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:115%">Simply ask them in the language suggested or your
own words to “sign the FY18 LSTA and IAL Dear Appropriator letters.” </span></li>
<li><span style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:115%">Then, ask your library staff, your governing and advisory
boards, your volunteers, vendors, employees, Friends, foundation members and your
patrons—every library lover you know—to take action too!</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:115%">Check up on your Senators. Use our easy <a href="http://ala.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT02NTI3NDQzJnA9MSZ1PTEwMDczNTM5MjMmbGk9NDM1MDQxNjY/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tracking tool</a> and, if
you don’t soon see your Senator listed as a signator of the LSTA and/or IAL
“Dear Appropriator” letters, ask them again to sign on right away. </span></li>
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<p><span style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:115%">We can do this. You can do this. If you care
about libraries and all they do with more than $210 million in federal funding
that flows to every state in America, <strong>you must do this</strong>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:115%">Thank you<br></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#505050;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:115%"><img alt="Julie Todaro signature" src="http://ala.informz.net/ala/data/images/development/Todaro-signature-300.jpg" style="border:0px none;height:128px;width:200px;vertical-align:bottom" valign="bottom" height="128" width="200" border="0"><br> <br>Julie Todaro<br>ALA President</span></p>
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