[CASL-L] Please Ask Your Senators to Sign Appropriations Letters Before Fri. Deadline

[IRENE KWIDZINSKI]

Please contact our senators.


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From: Sara Kelly Johns <skjohns at gmail.com>
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Sent: Mon, March 19, 2012 6:38:49 PM
Subject: [aaslforum] Fwd: [alsc-l] Please Ask Your Senators to Sign 
Appropriations Letters Before Fri. Deadline

These are important bills for school libraries. Please take the time to call 
your Senators before Friday! Tha ALA Washington Office has a prompt for 
contacting them about LSTA funding on its Take Action page: 
http://capwiz.com/ala/home/ Both bills will make a difference for kids. 


Thanks, Sara


There is still time.  If you have not called your Senator to request that they 
add their signatures on the appropriations letters on the two library-related 
bills, please do so in the next day or two.  See information below.  Every call 
matters.    Many Thanks.... ALSC Legislation Committee....


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>Thanks to all of you who called your U.S. Representative last week to ask for 
>their signature on two appropriations letters. Now we must turn our attention to 
>the U.S. Senate where there is only one week left for  your  senators to sign 
>two very similar letters.
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>These letters are incredibly important because they greatly improve the chances 
>of libraries getting federal funding.
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>Support funding for LSTA in FY13
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> Please  ask both of your U.S. Senators to sign the letter supporting  funding 
>for the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) in FY13.  LSTA is the primary 
>source of funding for libraries in the federal budget. This letter is being sent 
>by Senators Reed (D-RI) and Snowe (R-ME).
> 
>These senators have signed as of 3/18: Begich (D-AK), Bingaman  (D-NM), 
>Blumenthal (D-CT), Cardin (D-MD), Johnson (D-SD) Kerry (D-MA),  Kohl (D-WI), 
>Leahy (D-VT), Mikulski (D-MD), Reed (D-RI), Snowe (R-ME), Stabenow (D-MI), 
>Tester (D-MT) Udall (D-NM), Whitehouse (D-RI), Wyden (D-OR)
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>Click here for talking points and contact information for your senators.
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> Support Childhood Literacy in FY13
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>Please ask both your U.S. Senators to sign the letter supporting funding for the 
>Innovative Approaches to Literacy Competitive Grant. At   least half of this 
>money would go to low-income school libraries to  help  update their materials. 
>This letter is being sent by Senators  Reed  (D-RI) and Grassley (R-IA).
> 
>These senators have signed as of 3/18: Grassley (R-IA), Kerry (D-MA), Kohl 
>(D-WI), Lugar (R-IN), Reed (D-RI), Snowe (R-ME), Stabenow (D-MI), Whitehouse 
>(D-RI), Wicker (R-MS), Wyden (D-OR)
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>Click here for talking points and contact information for your senators.
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> 
>If either of your two senators has signed on to one or both of these letters, 
>please thank them for their leadership and for  supporting libraries. 
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-- 
Sara Kelly Johns, School Librarian
Lake Placid Middle/High School Library
Instructor, Mansfield University School Library & Information Technology Program
AASL Division Councilor. ALA Council
AASL Legislative Committee
67 Canaras Ave.
Saranac Lake, NY 12983
johns at northnet.org
skjohns at gmail.com





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