The Indianhead Federated Library System is inviting library users all over western Wisconsin to share stories of how the local public library has helped them.
The collected stories will help make clear just how useful and necessary public libraries are and how much people depend on them.
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Showing posts with label library advocacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label library advocacy. Show all posts
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
You Are A Lobbyist
February 22nd is "Library Legislative Day" down in Madison. Librarians, library professionals and library supporters from all over Wisconsin will be meeting with legislators and making the case that libraries are a worthwhile funding priority when decisions have to be made with public money.
If you use the library and believe in the public library as an institution, contact your state representative(s) some time this month and ask them to keep public libraries thriving as best they can. Let them know that libraries generate wealth in many ways, and not just from the continuous business they do with private employers in the state of Wisconsin and elsewhere. Let your legislators know that libraries provide a raw material--information--which is the ore from which intellect, progress, invention and success are mined, in turn. Tell them that in an economy such as this one, the library is more important than ever.
And tell them the Chippewa Falls Public Library and the Indianhead Federated Library System sent you.
If you use the library and believe in the public library as an institution, contact your state representative(s) some time this month and ask them to keep public libraries thriving as best they can. Let them know that libraries generate wealth in many ways, and not just from the continuous business they do with private employers in the state of Wisconsin and elsewhere. Let your legislators know that libraries provide a raw material--information--which is the ore from which intellect, progress, invention and success are mined, in turn. Tell them that in an economy such as this one, the library is more important than ever.
And tell them the Chippewa Falls Public Library and the Indianhead Federated Library System sent you.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Library Advocacy and YOU
Having an impact on Wisconsin libraries is pretty easy. Every time you walk through our front doors and visit the Chippewa Falls Public Library, you make an impact. Every time you check out a book, DVD or CD, you make an impact. Every time you log in and check your Facebook page here, you have an impact.
How so? Well, each year the libraries of the Badger State have to report statistics to the Department of Public Instruction. The level of library usage in relation to all sorts of social measures has an impact on the kinds and amounts of money—federal and otherwise-- Wisconsin libraries may be eligible to receive.
So when you come down and check out a few books and check your email (after passing through our people counter), you do yourself a favor first and foremost, but you also give back to the library with your very presence!
So now that school is out and some of the pressure is off, don’t forget about us. We need you and like to think you need us.
By the way, June 29 is Library Advocacy day, and if everyone within electronic earshot of this message took that day to write an email or make a phone call to a legislator on behalf of Wisconsin’s libraries, it could make a real difference. If you like what your local library or library system is doing, let a person with some power know it.
Wisconsin's U.S. Senators
Wisconsin's Representatives in the U.S. Congress
Contact Information for Wisconsin State Senators
Contact Information for Wisconsin State Assemblymen
Library Advocacy: It's All Yours!
How so? Well, each year the libraries of the Badger State have to report statistics to the Department of Public Instruction. The level of library usage in relation to all sorts of social measures has an impact on the kinds and amounts of money—federal and otherwise-- Wisconsin libraries may be eligible to receive.
So when you come down and check out a few books and check your email (after passing through our people counter), you do yourself a favor first and foremost, but you also give back to the library with your very presence!
So now that school is out and some of the pressure is off, don’t forget about us. We need you and like to think you need us.
By the way, June 29 is Library Advocacy day, and if everyone within electronic earshot of this message took that day to write an email or make a phone call to a legislator on behalf of Wisconsin’s libraries, it could make a real difference. If you like what your local library or library system is doing, let a person with some power know it.
Wisconsin's U.S. Senators
Wisconsin's Representatives in the U.S. Congress
Contact Information for Wisconsin State Senators
Contact Information for Wisconsin State Assemblymen
Library Advocacy: It's All Yours!
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