[ISLMA-Share] Contact Sen. Duckworth and Sen. Durbin!

[Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association]

*Illinois folks--contact your senators now! *



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*All federal funding for libraries will disappear if Congress accepts
Trump’s proposed FY18 budget*.  Congress is working on their own version,
and we need them to put back in the federal funds for libraries.  Here’s
how you can help:

   1. Just 20 U.S. Senators have already signed on to letters of support
   for federal funding for libraries.  Please *find out if your Senator has
   supported libraries* by checking this sortable online tracker
   <https://airtable.com/shrbwBqmeYMWSYu2f/tblibE5jSCHVLvFmx/viw6jssU5hI83m3jY>
   2. *If they have signed on to both FY18 letters, send them a brief
   thanks.  If they have not, then please call, email, write, fax or Tweet* the
   office of your U.S. Senators. Ready to use messages are here:
   http://cqrcengage.com/ala/?0  but you will be asking them to:
      1. Sign on to the Dear Appropriator letter that Sens. Reed and
      Collins are circulating, which calls for $186.6 million in
funding for the
      Library Services Technology Act (LSTA).
      2. Sign on to the Dear Appropriator letter that Sens. Reed, Grassley
      and Stabenow are circulating in support of $27 million for Innovative
      Approaches to Literacy (IAL).
   3. Check out these other ways
   <http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2017/03/16/how-you-can-save-federal-funding-for-libraries-help-teens/>
you
   can take action to support libraries
   4. Encourage family, friends, patrons, contractors, vendors, coworkers,
   etc. to do the same!



Thank you,

-Beth

P.S. if you call your Senator’s office and the line is busy, use Resistbot
instead  It’s easy! https://resistbot.io/



Beth Yoke, CAE

Executive Director

Young Adult Library Services Association

50 E. Huron St. Chicago, IL 60611

1.800.545.2433 x4391 <(800)%20545-2433>

fax: 312.280.5276 <(312)%20280-5276>

byoke at ala.org

@yalsa_director



*Take action to support funding for teens and
libraries: http://bit.ly/2oaiVZD <http://bit.ly/2oaiVZD>*
Sarah Hill, Information Services Librarian
Lake Land College, Mattoon, Illinois
Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) President, 2016-2017
Twitter @glibrarian
Work Phone: 217.234.5440


*Take action to support funding
<http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2017/05/04/what-we-learned-from-a-visit-to-washington-dc-how-you-can-help/>
for teens and libraries*
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