State Legislation
Thursday, 04 March 2010 13:28
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Learning about your PA Legislators
"How to Find More Background Information on Legislation and Your Legislators," Pennsylvania Library Association July 3, 2011 PaLibraries.org.
House Resolution # 987 results in the State Board of Education School Library Study
On October 5, 2010, the Pa. House of Representatives unanimously passed HR 987, a resolution asking the State Board of Education with Pa. Dept. of Education to conduct a study of public school library services for K-12 students. The study measured and compared access to print and electronic resources, support and instruction in the use of information and research and evaluated how resources are allocated for school library services in relation to student and community circumstances. The official position of the House as stated in the resolution is that “Students and teachers need high-quality school library services and related educational resources in order to meet this Commonwealth's academic standards for research and learning in all core academic subjects." Rep. Mark Longietti of Mercer County was the lead sponsor of the resolution, supported by the Education Law Center and the Pa. School Librarians Association. Data was collected from over 1500 school libraries in March and April 2011. The State Board's report is now available. Three public hearings were held on the results presented by Dr. Mary Kay Biagini, School of Information Sciences, Unversity of Pittsburgh.
Read more about this at the School Library Journal site. Also read:
Kachel, Debra E. "Beyond the Library Door: The Story of Pennsylvania's HR 987." School Library Monthly 27.7 (Apr. 2011):49-51.
The 2011-2012 State Budget
The complete budget, including other library-related line items, can be found HERE.Read the Analysis by the Pa. Budget and Policy Center HERE.
| PROGRAM | FY 08-09 | FY 09-10 | % CUT IN LIBRARY SERVICES, (2008-09 vs. 2009-10) |
FY 2010-11 BUDGET |
% CUT IN LIBRARY SERVICES, (2009-10 vs. 2010-11) |
FY 2011-12 BUDGET | % CUT IN LIBRARY SERVICES, (2010-11 vs. 2011-12) |
| Office of Commonwealth Libraries (includes State Library operations) |
$4,846,000 |
$2,372,000 | -51.1% |
$2,230,000 |
- 7.7 % | $2,060,000 | -6.5% |
| Library Access (POWER Library, statewide card, interlibrary delivery) | $ 7,290,000 | $ 2,970,000 | -73.2% | $3,000,000 | + 1 % | $2,970,000 | -1.0% |
| Electronic Library Catalog (Ask Here PA, Access PA database) | $ 3,792,000 | (Merged withLibrary Access line above) | (Merged with Library Access line above) |
(Merged with Library Access line above) |
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