[Scla-list] FW: [grassroots] URGENT GRASSROOTS CALLED NEEDED - asap - ALA Washington Office prepares proposal to include libraries in jobs bill

[Curtis Rogers]

Hello All,

Calls are needed as soon as possible.  This new proposal moves forward
today - far faster than originally announced.  See more details below -
but we must assure that libraries make it into this jobs bill - since we
got so little - or essentially almost nothing - in the previous stimulus
bill.

Lynne

From: Jenni Terry 
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:24 AM
Subject: ALA Washington Office prepares proposal to include libraries in
jobs bill

 

Contact: Jenni Terry

Press Officer

ALA Washington Office

202-628-8410

jterry at alawash.org

 

For Immediate Release

December 16, 2009 

 

ALA Washington Office prepares proposal to include libraries in jobs
bill

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The American Library Association (ALA) Washington
Office has prepared a proposal
<http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/wo/libraryjobs.pdf>  to include
jobs for librarians in the "Jobs for Main Street Act," which will be
taken up on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives today.

The bill, which bypassed the standard procedure of introduction and
passage in committee, calls for immediate action by library supporters. 

"This is a perfect example of how ALA's grassroots can make a difference
for library services. We are asking everyone to call their member of
Congress first and then both of their senators," Emily Sheketoff,
executive director of the ALA Washington Office, said.

Background information on the ALA's proposal can viewed here
<http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Jobs-
Bill.pdf> .

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