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Virtual Library Legislation Day June 23, 2008

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Serve your students. Promote and protect school libraries. Make your voice heard.

Virtual Library Legislation Day is Tuesday, July 1, 2008 — Participate!!!

Prepare now (so you know what you want to say and do when the time comes).

Take action on July 1st.

Here’s how:

PREPARE
Read the ALA Washington Office (WO) webpage about the SKILLs Act: http://www.capwiz.com/ala/issues/alert/?alertid=10223941

Write a short piece telling your Senators and Representative the importance of passing the SKILLs Act. Use information from the WO webpage together with with your own thoughts and experiences to demonstrate the vital need to enact SKILLs.

If any of your Senators and Representatives already co-sponsor SKILLs, include your thanks and appreciation.

If they do not already co-sponsor SKILLs, ask them to take this step now.

TAKE ACTION
2 parts to this — for those at ALA Annual in Anaheim on July 1; and for those anywhere else

At ALA ANNUAL in ANAHEIM:
Bring your prepared statement to the Virtual Library Day Pavilion in Exhibit Hall sometime between 8:00 a.m. and 12 noon on July 1.

You will get a t-shirt.

You will participate in the excitement and enthusiasm of people representing the entire library community coming together to empower their political voice.

You will contribute to the voice of school libraries within the entire library community.

You will see Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a strong library supporter, who will be adding his voice to the call for political support of libraries.

For more information see the WO Virtual Library Day webpage at http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=498

Not at ALA ANNUAL in ANAHEIM
Sometime on July 1st, deliver your message to your Senators and Representative.

How to do this:

Go to the WO Take Action Webpage at http://www.capwiz.com/ala/issues/alert/?alertid=10223941

Enter your zip code in the field provided and the message page comes up addressed to your Senators and Representative.

Put in your message and with a click of the mouse send it your Congressional delegation.

Mark your calendar. On Tuesday, July 1 take a few minutes to participate in our democratic system. Serve your students. Protect school libraries. Let your representatives in Congress know that school libraries are vital for the education of our students and therefore for the good of our communities and our country.

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