[ISLMA-Share] Good News for a Change!

[Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association]

This is wonderful news!  It is heartwarming to discover that all of our
efforts contacting legislators can make a difference!

Becky Robinson

ISLMA Executive Secretary
P.O. Box 1326
Galesburg, IL  61402
309-341-1099
brobinson15 at gmail.com

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Just received the following from Audrey Church, President of AASL--
>
> Friends,
>
> It seems that for the past month I have been asking you to “do” something
> on a regular basis—Invite a Legislator to Your Library; Get Out the Vote!;
> Contact your Representatives to Save IMLS Funding.
>
>
>
> I am very happy to share the following from ALA President Julie Todaro:
>
>
>
> *Hello library advocate leaders and thank you for all of your efforts to
> dramatically increase the number of Members of the House of
> Representatives this year signing our "Dear Appropriator" letters of
> support for IAL and LSTA. Last year, our signer totals stood at 124 and 88
> for those programs, respectively.  *
>
>
> *I could not be more pleased to tell you that as of the close of business
> on Tuesday, all of us -- working as a team led by Emily and especially Adam
> and the ALA Office of Government Relations -- had convinced 146 Members of
> the House to support IAL funding in FY 2018 and 144 Members to back LSTA.
> (See whether and how your Representative supported IAL and/or LSTA
> with our **sortable online tracker
> <https://airtable.com/shruwZPRyL5f2CbQS/tbl3v3Ts6KMDMSyJ1>** tool.)  *
>
>
> *Those totals, which are for the first time bipartisan on both letters,
> represent a 18% increase in support for IAL and a phenomenal 64% increase
> for LSTA over last year! Put another way, effectively one-third of the
> entire US House of Representatives has told the
> House Appropriations Committee in writing that they support
> BOTH IAL funding at $27 million and LSTA appropriations of $186.6 million
> in FY 2018! *
>
>
>
> So, sincere thanks for all that you do—for AASL, for school libraries, and
> for the students we serve!
>
>
>
> Audrey
>
>
>
> ********************************
> Audrey P. Church, Ph.D.
>
> Professor and Coordinator, School Librarianship
>
> President, American Association of School Librarians, 2016-2017
>
> Author, *Tapping into the Skills of 21st-Century School Librarians*
> <https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475818895/Tapping-into-the-Skills-of-21st-Century-School-Librarians-A-Concise-Handbook-for-Administrators>,
> Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
>
>
>
> Department of Education and Special Education
>
> Longwood University
>
> 201 High Street, Hull 232
>
> Farmville, VA  23909
>
> Phone:  434-395-2682 <(434)%20395-2682>
>
> Email:   <churchap at longwood.edu>churchap at longwood.edu
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Illinois Congressmen who signed letters for Innovative Approaches to
> Literacy (all Democrats)--Danny Davis, Robin Kelly, Raja Krishnamoorthi,
> Daniel Lipinski, Bobby Rush, Janice Schakowsky, and Bradley Schneider.
>
>
> Illinois Congressmen who signed letters for LSTA Funding (all
> Democrats)--Cheri Bustos, Danny Davis, Bill Foster, Raja Krishnamoorthi,
> Daniel Lipinski, Michael Quigley, Bobby Rush, Janice Schakowsky, and
> Bradley Schneider.
>
>
> There was discussion at the ILA Public Policy Committee that a couple of
> Republicans had been approached and staff indicated that they might sign.
> As you can see by the list they did not.
>
>
> Thank you to those who took the time to contact congress! We did pick up a
> couple more than last year. If your legislator did not sign after you
> contacted them, drop them an email and tell them you were disappointed not
> to see their name here.
>
>
> Lou Ann Jacobs
>
> ISLMA Legislation Chair
>
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