FW: [NYLINE] NYLA Legislative Alert - Advocacy Efforts A Success!

[Rebekkah Smith Aldrich]

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[mailto:NYL...@listserv.nysed.gov]On Behalf Of Michael Borges
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 9:18 AM
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Subject: [NYLINE] NYLA Legislative Alert - Advocacy Efforts A Success!

Dear Library Advocate,

For the second consecutive year, the Legislature has included an increase in
Library Aid in the recently passed 2007-08 State Budget - $5 million in
additional aid. The momentum built over the last three years is continuing
to payoff with greater recognition by state policymakers on the need to
invest in our libraries and library systems.

Special thanks to Kathy Miller, Chair of NYLA Legislative Committee and its
members for their hard work and guidance, and to all the library advocates
out there, especially NYLA members and those who have contributed to New
Yorkers for Better Libraries. Our advocacy efforts on behalf of the library
community would not have been successful without the financial support of
NYLA members, PAC contributors and Lobby Day sponsors.

Please let your state legislators know of your appreciation for their
efforts and the particularly the leadership of Senator Hugh Farley, Senator
Stephen Saland, and Assemblymembers Amy Paulin, Catherine Nolan, Pat
Eddington and Sandra Galef.

This is not an April Fools joke!

P.S. If you are not a NYLA member, join today and be part of an
organization that is really making a difference for libraries and the
library profession. We only need 19 new members to reach 3,800 members -
another historic high! Visit www.nyla.org to join online.

Michael J. Borges
Executive Director
New York Library Association
252 Hudson Avenue
Albany, New York 12210-1802
Tel. 518-432-6952, ext. 101
fax 518-427-1697
dire...@nyla.org

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