Category Archives: ACTION ALERT

ACTION ALERT: LSTA Call Alert

April 4, 2013 – 3:28 pm

We’re sharing the message below on behalf of ALA’s Office for Library Advocacy and Washington Office. Please share it by sending a link to this blog post, retweeting it from our Twitter feed at @ala_ascla, or resharing from our Facebook page. ================================================= We issued an alert yesterday about the LSTA “Dear Colleague” letter that is now [...]

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Member Signatures Wanted: Petition to establish tribal librarian interest group

April 3, 2012 – 3:44 pm

A note from ASCLA Executive Director Susan Hornung: We have a new e-petition started for a Tribal Librarian Interest Group. Lillian Chavez, the Librarian for Mescalero Community Library in Mescalero, NM, and ASCLA member, has started this petition. This group is open to anyone with an interest in Tribal Libraries.  The purpose of this group [...]

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Contact your U.S. Senators – ask them to sign on to library funding letter

June 6, 2011 – 10:19 am

  Please call both of your U.S. Senators at (202) 224-3121 and ask them to sign onto this letter by COB Wednesday, June 8.  Also ask library supporters to contact your senators as well. Senators Jack Reed and Olympia Snowe are leading an effort to increase support for FY2012 federal funding for the Library Services and [...]

By Liz, ASCLA Staff | Also posted in ALA Washington Office | Comments (0)

Century Scholarship S.O.S.! Your support is needed now.

April 5, 2011 – 2:18 pm

The ASCLA Century Scholarship Committee finds itself without sufficient funds to award the typical scholarship of $2,500 for FY 2011. The largest applicant pool in recent memory has applied for the scholarship, and the winner will use funds to help pay for accessibility tools not covered by standard financial aid. If you can contribute any [...]

By Liz, ASCLA Staff | Also posted in Division News, Leadership, Member Involvement, Outreach, Underserved Populations | Comments (0)

ASCLA: Future-Friendly, Future-Ready

March 16, 2011 – 3:54 pm

ASCLA members will have the opportunity to affect substantial and meaningful change in their association by voting to approve ASCLA’s revised bylaws in the upcoming ALA/ASCLA election. The changes provide a new structure that allows for more member participation and collaboration. Groups of individuals with mutual issues and interests can generate spontaneously, evolving or devolving [...]

By shornung | Also posted in Division News, Leadership, Member Involvement | Comments (0)

ACTION ALERT: Call your representative, tell them to oppose Amendment #35 to the Continuing Resolution

February 15, 2011 – 3:24 pm

This week, the House of Representatives will consider two amendments to the FY2011 Continuing Resolution that are critical to libraries – one that would eliminate all Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funding including Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funding and another that would halt all funding for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [...]

By Liz, ASCLA Staff | Also posted in ALA Washington Office | Comments (0)