Feb
25
Dear ALA Members, I am writing to you today to enlist your participation in an association-wide advocacy campaign to protect funding for the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries program. Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Continuing Resolution (CR), H.R. 1, funding the remainder of Fiscal …
Feb
24
The following comment, from Binghamton’s Press and Sun-Bulletin’s website, www.pressconnects.com, was written in response to the Gannett News Service article, Library funding eyed for cuts as facility use continues to soar, that ran in newspapers across the state on 2/18/11. LenJack, 11:03 AM on February 19, 2011 With the advent of the internet and all of the information …
Feb
24
The Irondequoit Public Library is a municipal library whose funding has decreased substaintially the past few years. A recent article in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle gave a very good overview of what the library’s challenges are and why they are considering becoming a special legislative district public library. But, blog responses such as this …