[ISLMA-Share] FY17 Federal Library Funding Faces First Key Hurdle

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Thank you for the update on this. I admit I did not try the links! I
apologize for that.

Instead, go here--

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Then you can sign up and get these reminders specific to you.

Please everyone do contact Senator Kirk!

Thanks.

Lou Ann Jacobs

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Tried clicking on send a tweet, all your info shows up. Try clicking Not
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> Karyn Nadler, MLIS
> Library Media Specialist
> Robert Crown School
> Wauconda, IL 60084
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> Phone (847) 526-7100
> Fax (847) 487-3596
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> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) is on this committee. He needs to hear from all
>> of us on the importance of LSTA funds for Illinois. Keep the funding level
>> with last year. IAL funds are handled by the Dept of Ed and are the only
>> place in the federal budget where funds are earmarked for school libraries.
>> It is a competitive grant. Maintaining the funds means Illinois schools
>> have a better opportunity to receive one of these grants.
>>
>> Lou Ann Jacobs
>> ISLMA Legislation
>> louajcbs at gmail.com
>> ljacobs363 at aol.com
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>> ALA and its champions in Congress are pushing hard this year to keep
>> almost $200 million in funding for critical programs funded under the
>> Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and Innovative Approaches to
>> Literacy (IAL) program. Unfortunately, President Obama's FY 2017 budget
>> proposes cutting LSTA by more than half a million dollars! We've learned
>> that staff to key Senators are focusing this week on what the Senate Labor,
>> Health and Human Services Subcommittee's all-important appropriations bill
>> will do for - or to - LSTA, as well as IAL. We need tell their bosses --
>> the members of the Subcommittee -- not to cut federal support for either of
>> these critical programs.
>> If you've received this email, it means that you're a constituent of at
>> least one Member of this key Senate Subcommittee, and possibly two! They
>> need to hear from you now about what cutting LSTA, in particular, could
>> mean for your library and community.
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