[Michlib-l] Call to ACTION: Bills Requiring School Libraries/Librarians

[Lester, Kathy]

*State Representatives Darrin Camilleri, Adam Zemke, and Christine Greig
introduced three bills on Thursday, April 26th to require schools in
Michigan to have a school library staffed with a certified library media
specialist as well as staff to keep the library open when the library media
specialist is unavailable.
See:(https://housedems.com/article/bills-require-library-every-michigan-public-school
<https://housedems.com/article/bills-require-library-every-michigan-public-school>)MAME's
advocacy committee has worked for several years to raise awareness of the
critical need for effective school libraries and to have bills such as
these introduced.Now, we need your help!The representatives want to raise
awareness of the need for equitable access to school libraries staffed by
certified school librarians to help them in their efforts to secure
funding.  Please send a letter/email to [or call] your Michigan House
Representative asking them to support these three bills --- HB 5909, HB
5910, HB 5911.Here is a sample letter for you to personalize to send to
your Michigan House Representative: http://bit.ly/slbillsamp
<http://bit.ly/slbillsamp>.  It's simple - just make a copy of this google
document and modify and personalize this letter (or you may write your
own).The letter includes the link to look up your House Representative's
contact information; but, we will also include it
here:http://house.michigan.gov/mhrpublic/frmFindaRep.aspx
<http://house.michigan.gov/mhrpublic/frmFindaRep.aspx> If your
representative is Darrin Camilleri, Adam Zemke, or Christine Greig or one
of the additional bill supporters - Stephanie Chang, David LaGrand, Robert
Wittenberg, Leslie Love, Pam Faris, Kristy Pagan, Vanessa Guerra; please
send them a letter/email to thank them for their support of our students’
equitable access to effective school library programs staffed by certified
school library media specialists.Thank you, in advance, for sending a
letter to your Michigan legislator.  We need to work together to raise
awareness of our students’ need for effective school library programs in
our state.If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact
us.Also, it would be helpful (but not necessary); if you do send a letter
to your legislator, please send a quick reply to this email with your
legislator's name and/or district.  Feel free to pass this information onto
colleagues, friends, family; we are trying to reach all legislators.We
would love to flood our legislators with emails in support of these
bills!Thank you!!Michigan Association for Media in Education (MAME)Advocacy
CommitteeKathy Lester, ChairLisa BrakelCarrie BettsAmy HermonKlaudia
JanekLisa KelleyGwenn MarchesanoShannon TorresCynthia Zervos*
Kathy Lester, MLIS, MA
*Advocacy Chair, Past-President 2014*
Michigan Association for Media in Education (MAME)
*SIGLIB Steering Committee*
Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL)
*School Library Media Specialist / Technology Coach*
*SL21 Model Library, 2017-2018*
*SL21 Exemplary Ranking - Michigan School Libraries for the 21st Century
2016-2019*
East Middle School, Plymouth-Canton Schools
*ISTE Making IT Happen Award Winner*
*2017 MAME Michigan School Library Program of the Year*
*2012 **State Librarian's Excellence Award Winner*
kathyL at mimame.org
twitter: @LibraryL <https://twitter.com/LibraryL>
810.333.5873
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