From the California Library Association:
Library Legislative Day in Sacramento will be held on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 and our network of Legislative Contacts is busy making appointments with legislators to discuss topics of interest to the library community.
Archive of posts filed under the Take Action! category.
Library Legislative Day 2008 Update
San Francisco, CA – Renew the Library Preservation Fund
From the Friends of the San Francisco PublicLibrary:
YES on Proposition D!
VOTE TO RENEW THE FUND: The Library Preservation Fund, approved by San Francisco voters in 1994, is scheduled to sunset in 2008-09. This November, you can vote to renew the fund for another 15 years and keep our libraries fully funded, staffed and stocked with [...]
Help Remove Hold on Presidential Records Reform Bill in Senate
From ALA’s District Dispatch:
The Presidential Records Act Amendments bill (H.R. 1255) is currently being prevented from a vote in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY). He has not stated his reasons for doing so. H.R.1255 removes restrictions placed by President Bush’s 2001 Executive Order 13233 and enhances the Presidential Records Act, one of [...]
The Countdown is On to Save School Libraries!
From ALA’s District Dispatch:
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor will soon be considering reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). In order for the SKILLs Act to be included in NCLB – that is, to place a state-certified school library media specialist in every school – each member of [...]
Contact Your Senators in Support of Open Access
From ALA’s District Dispatch:
As the U.S. Senate considers Appropriations measures this fall for fiscal year (FY) 2008, please take a moment to remind your Senators of your strong support for public access to publicly funded research and, specifically, ensuring the success of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy by making deposit mandatory [...]
Ask Senate to Support EPA Libraries: FY 2008 Interior Appropriations Bill
The fiscal year (FY) 2008 Interior Appropriations bill which includes language restoring the EPA libraries is now headed to the full Senate for consideration. The House-passed FY 2008 Interior Appropriations bill doesn’t contain the EPA library language. We need to insure that the final Senate bill contains the EPA library language when the House and [...]
Action Needed Re: NIH Public Access Policy
From ALA’s District Dispatch:
The House Committee on Appropriations will consider the fiscal year (FY) 2008 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill on July 11. If you have a Representative on the House Appropriations Committee, please call, email or fax them to support the inclusion of language that would require National Institutes of Health (NIH) investigators to deposit their [...]
AALL Action Alert–Help Needed Immediately on House FY 2008 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill
From the AALL Advocacy listserv:
BACKGROUND
H.R. 2771, the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act for FY 2008 and its accompanying Report 110-198, were filed late Tuesday night. The recommended amounts for the Government Printing Office are not good.
H.R. 2771 is scheduled for a House floor vote tomorrow and we have just learned that Rep. Jeff Flake (AZ-R-6) will [...]
Support Restoring Funding for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grants program
SLA Action Alert:
The National Archives and Records Administration, was created within the National Archives in 1934, given its own staff in 1951, authorized to make grants in 1964, and reorganized in 1975 as the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Its 15 members represent the three branches of the federal government and six professional associations [...]
Save the Toxic Release Inventory
From OMB Watch:
Tell Congress to stop the EPA from rolling back reporting requirements on toxic pollution. In the new Congress, the House and Senate have another chance to stop the EPA from implementing roll backs to toxic chemical reporting. Tell your Representative and Senators: SUPPORT THE TOXIC RIGHT TO KNOW PROTECTION ACT. The TRI is [...]