Legislation Links
Links
- Congress.org - Includes links to legislative alerts, issues by topic, information about upcoming elections, bills that are currently in Congress, and other valuable information.
- Thomas - Legislative information from the Library of Congress. This site includes information found on Congress.org, as well as educational information for educators and students on the legislative process.
- Rock the Vote - a hip site to get young people interested in civics; online voter registration too
- Mansfield University's LSC 55330 School Library Advocacy Course Libguides
- Federal Legislation
- State Legislators (how to identify and communicate with them)
- Pennsylvania Info
- School Library Impact Studies 101
- Recent Research & Statistics
Professional Library Association Links & Resources
American Association of School Librarians Toolkits
- Crisis Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to assist you as you build meaningful and effective support for saving your program. - School Library Media Program Health and Wellness Toolkit
This toolkit provides resources to help you build stakeholder support and true advocacy. - Advocacy Toolkit
Collection of ready-to-use tools to conduct an advocacy campaign--large or small--for school library media programs. - Parent Outreach Toolkit
- Take Action! ALA's Legislative Action Center - Using ALA's Legislative Action Center you can contact your Representatives and Senators, see how they voted, and track federal library legislation. ALA's Legislative Action Center can also be accessed from the homepage of the ALA Washington Office (see below).
- ALA Washington Office - This is another useful link through the American Library Association. One can find names, contact information, voting records of legislators along with current pending legislation. Also useful are the links to newspaper editors available by state and name of newspaper.
- Office for Library Advocacy - everything you wanted to know about being a library advocate
- ALA Washington Office's District Dispatch - Click on "School Libraries" under Categories to get the latest on federal legislation relative to school libraries.
- Library Advocacy Day 2010 is scheduled for Tuesday, June 29, 2010, at the end of the Annual ALA Conference in Washington, DC.
Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA)
California School Library Association's "Best Sellers" Advocacy Campaign
State Related Sites
- Pennsylvania General Assembly - The Pennsylvania General Assembly website provides access to State and House activities and legislation.
- Pennsylvania Department of Education-Commonwealth Libraries
- LSTA Grants
- Library Resources - Including PA Guidelines for School Library Programs
- PA Schools Listserv - sign up here so that you receive PSLA Alerts
