[LM_NET] GEN: NY State: NYLA Legislative Alert - $20 million cut in Library Aid Proposed

[Rena Deutsch <rdlibnyc@GMAIL.COM>]

Dear Colleagues,
If you were reeling about the proposed cuts before, get ready, it's about to
get worse.

Please please please read the NYLA Legislative Alert from Michael Borges -
below.

Please write to your representatives and to the governor.

While you are on the NYLA page, make sure to check out Remaining balances
for libraries --
http://www.nyla.org/content/user_1/AT08-LibAid_Remaining.pdf

Scary, scary stuff.

Rena Deutsch, Librarian
Seward Park Campus Schools
350 Grand St.
New York, NY 10002
(212) 475-4148 x435
rdlibnyc@gmail.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Borges <director@nyla.org>
Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:21 AM
Subject: [nyla-members] NYLA Legislative Alert - $20 million cut in Library
Aid Proposed
To: This electronic discussion list serves members of the New York Library
Association <nyla-members@lm.nyla-omc.org>
Cc: nylalistserve <nyla-members@lm.nyla-omc.org>


 Dear Library Advocate, I want you to get really angry, I mean really fed up
with the way libraries and library systems are being treated by the State of
New York.  The NYS Division of Budget has proposed a $20 million cut, that's
right the largest cut ever in Library Aid, a 20% reduction in funding, that
no other educational institutions are being asked to bear, to resolve the
state's deficit for fiscal year 2008-09.

This cut will be devastating to library services throughout the state, no
library or system will go unscathed, if this happens layoffs may occur,
services will be curtailed or costs passed onto to local libraries and their
patrons.

I urge you to go our website www.nyla.org  immediately and click on Contact
Your Elected Official button to send a letter to your state legislator
opposing this proposed cut that the Legislature will consider when they
return to Albany on November 18th for a special session.  The letter is
editable so you may include your own comments about how libraries are
essential in your community, how library systems save your library money and
provide vital services.  Or call/visit your legislators in person if
possible between now and next Tuesday.

The library community needs to act now in a strong, aggressive and united
fashion in order to prevent this outrageous proposal from becoming reality.

Michael J. Borges
Executive Director
New York Library Association
252 Hudson Avenue
Albany, New York 12210
(518) 432-6952, ext. 101
(518) 427-1697 Fax
director@nyla.org


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Rena Deutsch, Librarian
Seward Park Campus Schools
350 Grand St.
New York, NY 10002
(212) 475-4148 x435
rdlibnyc@gmail.com

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