Help Our LSTA / IAL Library Champions Help Us Now!
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. 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). Both of these programs are potentially on the chopping block
this year and it's up to you to help save them.
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 (See the
letters here).
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). 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.
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.
Time is short! Please, contact both your Senators and
Representative now.
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