Have you Written your Legislator Yet?

Public libraries in Pennsylvania need to make their voices heard in Harrisburg. If you have not already done so please call, write, email, or fax (heck do all four!) your local State Representative & Senator; ask them to support an appropriation to public libraries of $79.4 million. This may be a tough sell in shrinking economy, but we must make clear to them that without an increase in appropriations that will allow the State Funding Formula to be run again with current data, libraries in the state will continue to fall behind the rest of the nation. To ensure adequate local support we must have State dollars as leverage. I wrote my letter this morning, it took me 20 minutes. Are you willing to spend 20 minutes to ensure the future of libraries in Pennsylvania? Or are you willing to live with the consequences of another year going by without the formula being run?

Please write today.

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