[Scla-list] FW: Call Your Senators - Library Jobs Need to Be in the Jobs Bill!

[Dr. Curtis R. Rogers]

 Call Your Senators - Library Jobs Need to Be in the Jobs Bill! 










From: Kristin Murphy,
American Library Association [mailto:kmurphy at alawash.org] 

Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 2:12 PM

To: Curtis Rogers

Subject: Call Your Senators - Library Jobs Need to Be in the Jobs Bill! 





   




 
  
  
   
    
    Out of Work Librarians Need Your Help NOW! 
    
    
     
    Take Action! 
    
   
   
    

   
   
    
      
    
   
   
    
    
    
    Senate Majority Leader Harry
    Reid (D-NV) announced yesterday that he will bring the Senate's $80 billion
    version of the Jobs for Main Street Act or the "jobs bill"
    to the Senate floor sometime next week.  
    
    
       
    
    
    Libraries are not in this
    bill, and it is more important than ever that you call your Senators and
    encourage them to include librarians in the $20.5 billion section that is
    being used to hire and retain teachers, police, and firefighters. 
    
    
       
    
    
    Also, if you are in a state
    where librarians are represented by a union, please have your local union
    contact your national union to contact the Senate. 
    
    
       
    
    
    Please call your Senators
    today at the U.S. Capital switchboard 202-224-3121 
    
    
    Libraries are as essential as
    schools and public safety and help the economy by helping people find
    jobs.  Yet library jobs are being cut - and, now, not included in this
    jobs bill.  It is vitally important that librarians be as vocal as
    these other public employees. The reason they are getting funding in this
    piece of legislation is because they are calling their congressional
    offices more often and in higher numbers than we are.  
    
    
       
    
    
    Your grassroots efforts are
    critically important.  The omission of librarians in the jobs bill is
    in addition to the troubling news this week that President Obama's budget
    proposal freezes the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and
    consolidates the school library program with literacy programs in the
    Department of Education.  These cuts will lead to a loss of jobs and a
    loss of services that our communities cannot afford to be without. 
    
    
       
    
    
    Please call both of your U.S.
    Senators to ask each of them to request that Senate Majority Leader Harry
    Reid (D-NV), Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), and Senator Byron Dorgan
    (D-ND),  include the hiring and retaining of librarians in their jobs
    bill. 
    
    
    

    This bill could come up at any moment and it is critically important that
    you contact your Senators' offices immediately and tell them to push
    the above Senate leaders to include librarians in the jobs bill. 
    Don't just call once - keep calling until we succeed.  Make sure to
    tell your senators what your library is doing to help people find
    jobs.  
    
    
       
    
    
    We cannot let this legislation
    pass without the inclusion of library employees.  We have no chance of
    getting into this legislation without your calls and emails - and the
    support of all senators!! 
    
    
    
   
  
  
 
 
  
    
  
 
 
  
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