Category Archives: ALA Washington Office

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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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 [...]

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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) [...]

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Action Alert: MLSA vote–call your representative!

December 13, 2010 – 11:23 am

POSTED ON BEHALF OF Kristin Murphy, Government Relations Specialist, American Library Association – Washington Office. 202.628.8410, kmurphy@alawash.org Good news! The U.S. House of Representatives has scheduled a vote on the Museum and Library Services Act (MLSA) for Tuesday. Your phone calls to Congress are especially important now as your representatives will be making a decision [...]

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From ALA Washington: President nominates former Public Library Association president for IMLS director

September 30, 2010 – 10:35 am

NEWS OF NOTE FROM THE WASHINGTON OFFICE Contact: Jenni Terry, Press Officer, ALA Washington Office, (202) 628-8410, jterry@alawash.org For Immediate Release, September 30, 2010 President nominates former Public Library Association president for IMLS director Washington, D.C. – President Obama announced his nominations for key administration posts yesterday including Susan H. Hildreth for director of the [...]

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