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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> Kristin Murphy,
American Library Association [mailto:kmurphy@alawash.org] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 05, 2010 2:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Curtis Rogers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Call Your Senators - Library Jobs Need to Be in the Jobs Bill!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Out of Work Librarians Need Your Help NOW!</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid (D-NV) announced yesterday that he will bring the Senate's $80 billion
version of the <i>Jobs for Main Street Act </i>or the "jobs bill"
to the Senate floor sometime next week. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Libraries are not in this
bill, and it is more important than ever that you call your Senators and
encourage them to include librarians in the $20.5 billion section that is
being used to hire and retain teachers, police, and firefighters.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Also, if you are in a state
where librarians are represented by a union, please have your local union
contact your national union to contact the Senate.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Please call your Senators
today at the U.S. Capital switchboard 202-224-3121</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Libraries are as essential as
schools and public safety and help the economy by helping people find
jobs. Yet library jobs are being cut - and, now, not included in this
jobs bill. It is vitally important that librarians be as vocal as
these other public employees. The reason they are getting funding in this
piece of legislation is because they are calling their congressional
offices more often and in higher numbers than we are. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Your grassroots efforts are
critically important. The omission of librarians in the jobs bill is
in addition to the troubling news this week that President Obama's budget
proposal freezes the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and
consolidates the school library program with literacy programs in the
Department of Education. These cuts will lead to a loss of jobs and a
loss of services that our communities cannot afford to be without.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Please call both of your U.S.
Senators to ask each of them to request that Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid (D-NV), Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), and Senator Byron Dorgan
(D-ND), include the hiring and retaining of librarians in their jobs
bill.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><br>
This bill could come up at any moment and it is critically important that
you contact your Senators' offices <b>immediately</b> and tell them to push
the above Senate leaders to include librarians in the jobs bill.
Don't just call once - keep calling until we succeed. Make sure to
tell your senators what your library is doing to help people find
jobs. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">We cannot let this legislation
pass without the inclusion of library employees. We have no chance of
getting into this legislation without your calls and emails - and the
support of all senators!!</span></p>
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