ALAWON: Call Your Senators on Senate Appropriations bill

ALAWON is spreading the word on Sen. Jack Reed’s(D-RI)amendment to the Senate Appropriations bill. Reed’s amendment would add $35 million for libraries, bringing the amount for Improving Literacy Through School Libraries to the President’s request of $27.5 million. It would also add enough money to LSTA to fund the new LSTA formula as well as fund Native American and Hawaiian American allocations.

Call your Senators and remind them of the vital importance of libraries to our communities and our children, and ask them to co-sponsor this important amendment. The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.

September 3, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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