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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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AND AFTER THAT
TRY THIS  SITE TO SEE HOW PEOPLE WITH A READING DISABILITY
 EXPERIENCE  READING

Click for a DYSLEXIA EXPERIENCE

http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea 

Help NJ Libraries Today-Vote for Technology Catch-Up

From New Jersey Library Association:

Help the New Jersey State Library and the New Jersey Library Association bring the latest technology to EVERYONE by voting at http://www.refresheverything.com/technologycatchupatyourlibrary

The goals of the program are to distribute 150 "Technology-Catch-Up"
sets to NJ's public libraries in order to offer access to the newest technology to everyone. The "Technology Catch-Up" sets will include an iPad, a Kindle, a Nook, & a Flip Ultra Camcorder. This will offer access to the newest in technology, for free, through public libraries to help erase the digital divide by enabling economically disadvantaged individuals to learn about the latest in technology. Further, it will help the unemployed by teaching them about these new tools, and help parents feel as comfortable using new technology as their "digital native" children.
The project coincides with our goal of making libraries community centers and with making our residents a society of lifelong learners.

PLEASE HELP US RAISE THE PROFILE OF LIBRARIES EVERYWHERE BY VOTING FOR OUR PROJECT!

Register today and vote EVERY day from now through January 31, 2011.

Questions? Contact Peggy Cadigan, pcadigan@njstatelib.org

Splash into Reading at NJ libraries

New Jersey public libraries have water-related summer reading programs for each age group!

The themes are:

Children: "Make a Splash",

Young Adults:"Make Waves"

Adults :"Water Your Mind"

Parent/Educator Alert

Check out the summer reading website at http://www.njsummerreading.org/

for prograns, reading lists, film and movie lists, and web resources for each age group.

Don't forget to become a New jersey library supporter at http://www.savemynjlibrary.org/!

Save NJ Libraries and Services-ACT NOW!

New Jersey Library Association -- Legislative Action Center:
"Last Push to Restore Library Funding
Thank you all for your support over the last 3 months. Your letters and phone calls have demonstrated to our elected officials how valuable library services are to the people of New Jersey. Now, as the final budget is being negotiated, we ask that you reach out one more time. These last days before the budget is approved are very important and we need to ask all elected officials to restore funding to the NJ Library Network, the NJ Virtual Library, public library state aid and the NJ Knowledge Initiative. Please send your message today."

Click here to act!

http://capwiz.com/ala/nj/home/

NLW: National Library Week 2010- 4/11- 4/17-Save Libraries

What is the best way to celebrate National Library Week?
Work to save our local libraries!

In New Jersey
go to http://www.savemynjlibrary.org/
There you can find out about proposed state legislation that endangers library funding.

You can also click on Contact Legislators with 1 click
and
Scroll to the bottom of the page
to immediately contact the Governor and your state legislators!

and then tell others to take Action

ALSO

Honorary Chair of National Library Week,Neil Gaiman, the 2009 Newbery Medal winner for “The Graveyard Book,” will speak to his lifelong love of libraries and the role they play in a democratic society by supporting intellectual freedom and privacy.

Library lovers and Gaiman readers across the country who are interested in watching are encouraged to join in the event live via UStream.tv and will need a 1 Mbps Internet connection and Flash player. Internet2 will also multicast the event on its national network enabling any of its connected research and education members that are multicast-enabled to broadcast the event to their campuses. Multicast information can be found at http://www.internet2.edu/k20/gaiman.html.