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Virtual Library Legislation Day

From the ALA VLLD page: Virtual Library Legislative Day is part of the American Library Association’s (ALA) National Library Legislative Day, held each spring in Washington, D.C. This year, National Library Legislative Day will be May 7-8, 2018. Virtual Library Legislative Day activities will be held throughout the week of May 7-11, 2018, and will be an opportunity for all library advocates to make…

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February 11, 2018

ALA News

ATTENTION! Help Save Net Neutrality!

From District Dispatch: This Thursday, the FCC is expected to vote on a proposal from Chairman Ajit Pai that would rollback the strong, enforceable net neutrality protections established in 2015. The meeting will be webcast, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm EST. As John Lewis said, “Every voice matters, and we cannot let the interests of profit silence the voices of those…

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December 13, 2017

ALA News

Your Efforts Are Helping to #saveIMLS

I am pleased to report that on September 14, the full House of Representatives voted as part of a large spending package (H.R. 3354) not to make any cuts in federal funding for IMLS. This includes all funding for IMLS programs under the Library Services and Technology Act, and for the Department of Education’s Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) program. Read the…

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September 21, 2017

ALA News / Opportunities

ALA 2018 Scholarship Opportunities

Received from the American Library Association: If you need a bit of financial help to get through your graduate program, scholarship funds are now available. The American Library Association (ALA) has more than $300,000 available to students who are studying in library science or school library media programs at the master's degree level. Get your application in early. The deadline…

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September 21, 2017

ALA News

American Library Association Voting Now Open

American Library Association voting is well underway. The 2017 elections opened on March 13, 2017 and will close at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Need some more information to aid in your decision for the presidential election? Recently the ALA Student Chapter at SJSU held a Town Hall where we got know the candidates for ALA president. To…

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March 19, 2017

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