Legislation Alerts
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 19:54
Current PSLA Alerts
Sign the Online PetitionPlease sign an online petition initiated by Carl Harvey, AASL president. It states that every child in America deserves to have access to an effective school library program. We must have 25,000 signatures by February 4 for President Obama to respond to our petition.
Directions for signing the “We the People” Petition
GO TO: wh.gov/Wgd
SELECT: Create an Account (Note: You must create an account to sign)
CREATE: your account, fill in the blanks, click Register
GOTO EMAIL: Now log into your email (the one you used to register). Retrieve the inbox message “Almost done! Verify your WhiteHouse.gov account”
CLICK ON LINK IN EMAIL: Click on the link provided in the email message
CLICK ON: Sign this Petition. You are done!
Note: The site is sometimes slow to respond. If you have difficulty, try logging out and logging back into the White House site: http://wh.gov/Wgd. Changing browsers may help, too.
Advocacy Webinar - Creating Your Advocacy Calendar
Watch this one-hour webinar by Stephanie Vance, the "Advocacy Guru" that lists monthly actions most appropriate to working with federal legislators.
"How One Advocacy Action per Month can Save the World"
State Budget Crisis & the Elimination of School Library Positions
- A sample "Elevator Speech"
- A sample three-minute school board testimony
- Advice & Suggested Resources in Response to School Library Staffing Cuts
- The Pennsylvania PTA Resolution of School Library Programs and their Legislative Agenda on school libraries
- AASL's President Releases a Statement on School Library Position Cuts 3/18/11
- ALA's Frontline Advocacy for School Libraries Toolkit
- AASL's"Invite Legislators and Elected Officials to Your School Library" April 2011
- Nancy Everhart's "100 Things Kids will miss if they don't have a School Librarian in their School"
- NEW AASL School Library Advocacy brochures-separate brochures for:
- Administrators
- Parents
- Policy makers (elected officials and legislators)
- Teachers
Find You State Legislators Addresses Here
Using this site, you can find your zipcode + 4 digits to correctly find your state legislators.