ALA Asks for Your Help
/RF encourages all to take action to support libraries!
The deadline for your legislators in the Senate to sign onto the Dear Appropriator letters is next Friday, May 7. Thanks to your advocacy, the House letters, which closed on April 23, 2021, gathered over 100 signatures each!
Will you contact your Senators and urge them to sign on today? (If your legislators have already signed onto the letters, they will receive a 'Thank You' note. See if your Senators have signed here.)
ALA has recently launched our FY2022 #FundLibraries Campaign. Our campaign website hosts a helpful collection of advocacy resources, including the one-page introduction to federal library funding, state-by-state library factsheets to share with your elected officials, and a handy visual guide on the overall federal appropriations process.
The Dear Appropriator letters are circulated to all Members of Congress by library champions in the House and Senate to rally colleagues in support of library funding before the appropriations budgets are negotiated. The FY2022 budget will include the designated amounts that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will be able to grant to libraries through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), along with the Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) grant program through the U.S. Department of Education, which supports school libraries and other literacy-related organizations. For FY2022, we are asking congressional appropriators to include funding of at least $206 million for LSTA and $50 million for IAL. Please contact your legislators today!
Thank you so much for your continued advocacy,
ALA Public Policy and Advocacy Team
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