<div>Good morning Oregon libraryland,</div><div>I am forwarding this message from ALA, reminding us that we still have a bit more time (until 11am, to be exact) to urge Senator Merkley to sign on to the "Dear Appropriator" letter, supporting Innovative Approaches to Learning (IAL). Fortunately, both our Senators have signed a letter of support for LSTA, but if you have time this morning, please consider contacting Senator Merkley to ask for his support for IAL.</div><div>Links to do so, and more information is in the forwarded message below.</div><div>Thank you for all you do, Oregon library community!</div><div>Best, </div><div>Elsa Loftis</div><div><br></div>Begin forwarded message:<div dir="auto"><div>
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<b>Date:</b> May 25, 2017 at 8:41:04 AM EDT<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> <b>URGENT: Last Push THIS AM for "Missing" LSTA/IAL Signatures</b><br>
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<div>Good morning. Here's the latest an last appeal, friends. Please push to your chapter members. Many thanks!</div>
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Adam Eisgrau, Managing Director
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Dear Colleagues. Good early morning. Julie will be sending an email shortly to all members but the word needs to go as far and wide as it can, as early as
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<p>The message is that Sen. <b>Reed has extended to just 2PM EASTERN</b> the deadline -- one last time -- by when Senate offices may contact his staff to say that they will sign either or both of the "Dear Appropriator" letters for LSTA and IAL that he must
deliver to the full Appropriations Committee tonight. These are the final hours in which we and our members can make an impact on the Senators most likely to sign at the last minute. </p>
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<p>Please help us try. <b>Please<span style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt">immediately </span><span style="font-size:12pt">ask your members</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt">and others to use the
ALA <a href="https://cqrcengage.com/ala/?0" target="_blank">Legislative Action Center</a> AGAIN </span><span style="font-size:12pt">to contact or recontact these Senators </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>"missing" from either or both letters</b> and ask them to
tell Sen. Reed's staff that they will </span><span style="font-size:12pt">endorse </span><span style="font-size:12pt">the letter or letters they have not yet signed. Senators agreeing to do so MUST have their staffs indicate that they wish to sign by contacting
<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Elyse_Wasch@reed.senate.gov');" target="_blank">Elyse_Wasch@reed.senate.gov</a> </span><font size="3">fo<wbr>r LSTSA and
<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Moira_Lenehan@reed.senate.gov');" target="_blank">Moira_Lenehan@reed.senate.gov</a> for IAL. The have only </font><span style="font-size:12pt">until</span><font size="3"> 2 PM Eastern to do that. We have less time!</font></p>
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<p><font size="3">Many thanks for all your help to date and for this <b>last push this AM at the mostly Democratic Senators we have a chance of convincing</b>. Two tables showing separately whether they have signed for LSTA or IAL follow. (Some will be missing
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 14, 2017 4:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','churchap@longwood.edu');" target="_blank">churchap@longwood.edu</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','heroldi@hawaii.edu');" target="_blank">
heroldi@hawaii.edu</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Cheryl.middleton@oregonstate.edu');" target="_blank">Cheryl.middleton@oregonstate.<wbr>edu</a>;
<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','vsipeala@gmail.com');" target="_blank">vsipeala@gmail.com</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ninaalsc@gmail.com');" target="_blank">
ninaalsc@gmail.com</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Michael.gorlick@gmail.com');" target="_blank">Michael.gorlick@gmail.com</a>;
<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','aimee.fifarek@phoenix.gov');" target="_blank">aimee.fifarek@phoenix.gov</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jspears@ppld.org');" target="_blank">
jspears@ppld.org</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Felton.thomas@cpl.org');" target="_blank">Felton.thomas@cpl.org</a>;
<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','alemcmanus@ucdavis.edu');" target="_blank">alemcmanus@ucdavis.edu</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sjssusan@gmail.com');" target="_blank">
sjssusan@gmail.com</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gsarahthelibrarian@gmail.com');" target="_blank">gsarahthelibrarian@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','snorton@ala.org');" target="_blank">snorton@ala.org</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','acline@ala.org');" target="_blank">
acline@ala.org</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mdavis@ala.org');" target="_blank">mdavis@ala.org</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kmalenfant@ala.org');" target="_blank">
kmalenfant@ala.org</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kcascio@ala.org');" target="_blank">kcascio@ala.org</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','astrittmatter@ala.org');" target="_blank">
astrittmatter@ala.org</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','shornung@ala.org');" target="_blank">shornung@ala.org</a>;
<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jlevine@ala.org');" target="_blank">jlevine@ala.org</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Kward@ala.org');" target="_blank">
Kward@ala.org</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Bmacikas@ala.org');" target="_blank">Bmacikas@ala.org</a>; Larra Clark;
<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','shornung@ala.org');" target="_blank">shornung@ala.org</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sreed@ala.org');" target="_blank">
sreed@ala.org</a>; <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','byoke@ala.org');" target="_blank">byoke@ala.org</a>; Keith Michael Fiels (<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kfiels@ala.org');" target="_blank">kfiels@ala.org</a>); Julie Todaro <jtodaro@austincc. edu> (<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jtodaro@austincc.edu');" target="_blank">jtodaro@austincc.edu</a>); Keith Michael
Fiels (<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kfiels@ala.org');" target="_blank">kfiels@ala.org</a>); Emily Sheketoff; Janice Lachance<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Thanks for recently sharing the info in my last bulletin (pasted below with original hyperlinks for convenience) out to your members in some form. As we head into the home stretch of our “51 Senators
or Bust” campaign for LSTA and IAL Dear Appropriator letter signatures (aka <a href="http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries" target="_blank">
Fight for Libraries!</a>), I wanted to take a minute to <b><i>update you confidentially on some happy forthcoming developments</i></b>. I’d also ask that, in whatever form you think best, you
<b><i>alert your members that we’re now coming down to the to wire</i></b> and ask them again to contact
<i>both</i> of their Senators (if they haven’t yet signed both letters according to
<a href="https://airtable.com/shrbwBqmeYMWSYu2f/tblibE5jSCHVLvFmx/viw6jssU5hI83m3jY" target="_blank">
our tracker</a>, that is). Our champions have set Friday the 19<sup>th</sup> as the public deadline to hear from other offices that they’d like to sign on (though they have said private they will push that into the following week to get more Senators’ John
Hancocks so we should <b><i>keep asking our people to keep calling/emailing/Tweeting through May 24th</i></b>). Here’s what’s new:</span></p>
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<li style="color:black;margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">First</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, re: our mobilization efforts, starting on Monday this week we’ll be
<b><i>employing all ALA social media channels to make the loudest noises possible</i></b> about the final days of the Senate Dear Appropriator push. To increase our chances of getting through all the noise on social media, we plan to do a series of
<b><i>targeted prompted posts on Facebook, along with accompanying Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr posts</i></b>. Some posts will share impact stories about LSTA, while others will be simple calls to action. In addition to asking people to call, email, or Tweet
at their Senators, we’ll also be <b><i>particularly encouraging everyone to tweet Libraries Transform “Because” statements at their Senators with our #saveIMLS hashtag</i></b> included. We’ll also be reaching out to influencers who can help us spread the word.
Asking your members to <b><i>help us push out these messages on social media</i></b> as far as their accounts can take us would be really helpful!</span></li></ul>
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<li style="color:black;margin-left:0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Second</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, the “developments” I mentioned a minute ago are that – as you’ve probably seen –
<b><i>eight major companies <a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Joint-Senate-Business-Ltr.pdf" target="_blank">
<span style="font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">jointly wrote to all Senators</span></a> last week</i></b> and asked then to sign the Dear Appropriator letters because of libraries’ profound economic impact on their businesses and on the American economy
at every level. (<a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2017/05/corporate-champions-urge-senators-support-fy18-library-funding/" target="_blank">District Dispatch</a> and
<a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/73582-publishers-library-vendors-urge-senate-to-support-library-funding.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=05a3c4f8d6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-05a3c4f8d6-304432749" target="_blank">
Publishers Weekly</a> both have more details.) The <b><span style="background:yellow">still confidential</span></b> further developments are that, on Wednesday of this week a group of now at least
<i>10 </i>companies – and at least one major DC-based software trade association with 700 members – will be officially announcing the
<b><i>formation of the “Corporate Committee for Library Investment”</i></b> or “CCLi” in a national press release. CCLi will then be resending the original letter to the Senate with, we hope, many additional companies of all sizes signed on as well. Many CCLi
charter members also will be directly lobbying Senators to sign both letters themselves.
<b><i>Any company, whether it directly does business with libraries or not, is welcome to join CCLi</i></b> so we hope you and your members will
<b><i>send any and all of your vendors and other friends in the business community to
<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMWCQfIeB5f4AaoPINREVmlFnpMVBjpmkAWqQgdpJitaJWmQ/viewform" target="_blank">
this online sign-on form</a></i></b> <b><i>now</i></b> to add their company to the letter and to simultaneously join CCLi (no financial commitment will ever be required for membership).</span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">That’s where we stand, folks. If you’d like a message to your members that can just be cut and pasted into a message from you, please just let me know. Also, don’t hesitate to call or email with
any questions or suggestions of </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">what we can do to assure that, come the 24<sup>th</sup>, it’s “51” and
<u>not</u> “Bust”! Many thanks again,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">PS – For you and your members’ reference and use,
<a href="http://www.ala.org/advocacy/state-lsta-funding-history" target="_blank">state-by-state issue briefs on LSTA funding and its local uses for FY 2012-2016 for all 50 States and DC</a> are now online.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">********OGR Message to Division Members**********</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks again to you and your members once again for your 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
<a href="https://airtable.com/shruwZPRyL5f2CbQS/tbl3v3Ts6KMDMSyJ1" target="_blank">third of all House Members</a> on each letter!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Now, </span></i></b><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2017/04/fight-library-funding-u-s-senate/" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">we’ve got until just May 19</span></i></b></a><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
– only another 10 business days – to set Member signature records in the Senate</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> 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 this week with Senate staff during NLLD, it’s clear that
<b><i>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</i></b> if these vital programs are to have the best chance of surviving Congress’ likely coming budget cuts.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Once again, OGR is maintaining an up to the minute and
</span><a href="https://airtable.com/shrbwBqmeYMWSYu2f/tblibE5jSCHVLvFmx/viw6jssU5hI83m3jY" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">sortable online tracker</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> showing which Senators have signed which letter(s). If yours hasn’t
already signed <b><i>both </i></b>the LSTA and IAL letters for FY 2018 (and only CT, HI, MA, NH, NJ, RI and VT have “doubled” so far),
<b><i>please use ALA’s </i></b></span><a href="http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Fight for Libraries! webpage</span></i></b></a><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> TODAY</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
<b><i>to contact both your Senators’ offices to</i></b> <b><i>ask them to sign both letters on or before May 19</i></b>. . . . then do anything and everything you can to encourage families, friends, customers, contractors, vendors, employees, casual acquaintances
and dog-walkers to do the same!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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,</span></p>
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<br><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Elsa Loftis<div>OLA President 2016-17</div><div><br><br><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2">I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.<br>-Jorge Luis Borges</font></i><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>