<div dir="ltr">AISLE Members and Friends.<div><br></div><div>Your action is needed! Please read and take action now so our Illinois Congressmen sign on to the Fund Libraries letters.</div><div><br></div><div>Lou Ann Jacobs</div><div>AISLE Legislation Advocacy Function Rep</div><div><a href="mailto:Legislation@aisled.org">Legislation@aisled.org</a></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">ALA Public Policy & Advocacy Office</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:imanager@alawash.org">imanager@alawash.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 2:15β―PM<br>Subject: [Short Deadline] #FundLibraries Begins Now! π<br>To: Lou Ann Jacobs <<a href="mailto:Legislation@aisled.org">Legislation@aisled.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg88092399498243479"><u></u>
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<p style="Margin-top:0;Margin-bottom:0;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration:inherit">HelloΒ Lou!</span></p><p style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0">Each year, the library community makes our voice heard for federal funding, which libraries across the country rely on to sustain crucial programs. Congress is crafting next yearβs federal budget on a truncated timeline β <em>with only one week for House members to show their support.</em></p><p style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:20px"><strong>Itβs time to take action. Itβs time to #FundLibraries.</strong>Β </p>
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<p style="Margin-top:0;Margin-bottom:0">The federal appropriations process began with the Presidentβs proposed budget, before moving on to the House and Senate. Library champions in both chambers are leading our budget request letters and working hard to make the case for increased library funding through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and the Innovative Approaches to Literacy program (IAL):Β </p><ul style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0;Margin-left:24px;padding:0;list-style-type:disc"><li style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0;Margin-left:0"><p style="Margin-top:0;Margin-bottom:20px">In the House, Reps. RaΓΊl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Don Bacon (R-NE) are leading the LSTA letter, and Reps. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Bacon are leading the IAL letter. Β </p></li><li style="Margin-top:0;Margin-bottom:0;Margin-left:0"><p style="Margin-top:0;Margin-bottom:20px">In the Senate, Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) is leading both letters!Β </p></li></ul><p style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:0">We are requesting funding of at least $232 for LSTA and $50 million for IAL. Learn more about the campaign β and find tools to share this action β at ALAβs <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#57a607" href="https://americanlibraryassociation.cmail19.com/t/i-l-qkthidl-tdzxjkir-j/" target="_blank">#FundLibraries homepage</a>!Β </p><p style="Margin-top:20px;Margin-bottom:20px">We are incredibly grateful for the time, work, and dedication you have put in to support libraries. Your efforts as advocates are responsible for some of the most consequential wins for libraries in decades. Now stand with libraries, library workers, and the communities they
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