Last month library supporters were called on to contact their Rep in the House. Now it’s the Senate’s turn! Please email, Tweet and/or call the offices of your two U.S. Senators and ask them to sign on to the “dear appropriator” letters for two critical pieces of library funding: the Library Services Technology Act (LSTA) and Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL). Please share this widely and encourage your colleagues, coworkers, friends and family to contact the offices of their Senators as well. This is an extremely tough budget year, and without huge grassroots support (i.e. thousands of voters contacting Congress), the nation’s libraries will lose this critical funding. The deadline to sign the letter is May 19.
- Go here to contact your Senators’ offices: http://cqrcengage.com/ala/home –ready to use messages are waiting for you!
- Check up on your Senators after you contact them. Use ALA’s easy tracking tool to find out if your Senators signed the letters. Then thank them if they did, or contact them again if they haven’t yet done so.
- To learn more about the issue, read this ALA blog post.
Thank you for all that you do to support teens and libraries and don’t forget we have everything you need to be a part of National Library Legislative Day, May 2, on the wiki as well as 10 other ways you can take action right now to support libraries!
-Beth Yoke
P.S. If you’ve been trying by phone to reach your Senator and the lines are busy, try Resistbot instead
