URGENT! - Help Maintain Funding for Libraries
Rebekkah Smith Aldrich (MHLS)
Library Advocates!
Your help is needed once again.
We all know that in tough economic times, libraries of all types are
used more than ever. We need to get that message to our legislators and
to Governor Patterson.
New York is now facing those tough economic times. Governor Patterson
has called for an $800 million decrease in the proposed 2008-09 budget.
The Legislature and Governor are negotiating the differences in their
budget proposals. We must be sure that libraries are NOT among the items
that are cut.
Our message to both the Governor and the Legislature must be clear. 75%
of households in New York use libraries. Libraries are more valuable
than ever when times are tough. Keep library funding at $102 million --
the level in the 2007-08 budget. Do not cut library funding.
You can help by writing letters the Governor and your legislators or you
can go to the NYLA website (www.nyla.org) and click on "Become a Library
Advocate". Please ask other library advocates to do this also. Friends,
families, colleagues -- everyone you know uses a library. Please ask
them to help.
Thank you!
Kathy Miller
NYLA Legislative Chairperson
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Kathleen M. Miller, Executive Director
Rochester Regional Library Council
390 Packett’s Landing
Fairport, NY 14450
585-223-7570 phone
585-223-7712 fax
kmi...@rrlc.org
AIM kmiller1863
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Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, Coordinator of Member Information
Mid-Hudson Library System
103 Market Street
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
845.471.6060 x39
FX: 845.454.5940
http://midhudson.org