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Colleagues:
Our time has come! House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 129 is on the agenda of the House Education Committee for THIS Wednesday. HCR 129, if passed, will compel the Board of Regents to fund LOUIS at the FY 2009-2010 level. Moreover, it will at last provide a forum for an investigation into the bizarre action of the BOR staff who cut LOUIS last year without notice. If you all recall, we found out that LOUIS had been defunded from an article printed in the Baton Rouge Advocate in July of 2010! A program that returns six dollars for every dollar invested (which is a conservative estimate) was almost eliminated, if not for the tenacious efforts and true grit of librarians and library staff across Louisiana.
Now, with some measure of victory in sight, we cannot sit quietly and trust that others will look after our best interests, and that of Louisiana's future graduates. We must "go tell it on the mountain", because the opportunity to do so will quickly pass. The legislative session ends on Thursday, June 23rd.
Therefore, I urge all of you to email each and every member of the House Education Committee and tell him/her to vote YES on HCR 129. The names and contact information of these representatives can be found on the Save LOUIS webpage, http://www.savelouis.org. Please see the HCR 129 announcement at the top of the page and follow the directions to send an email to all of Louisiana's legislators with a click of a mouse, or a fax directly to a member of the House Education Committee. Letters sent by post will not reach our legislators in time.
Lastly, but most importantly, please email or fax your support and gratitude for the redoubtable efforts of Representative Michael Jackson of District 61 at larep061@legis.state.la.us
In closing, I thank you for all of your passion and hard work over the past several months. If you are in the Baton Rouge area, and you are able to make the meeting of the House Education Committee scheduled at 9:00 AM, in Committee Room 1. The agenda is attached in PDF format.
Sincerely,
Michael Matthews
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Michael E. Matthews MLIS
Head of Serials, Media, and Interlibrary Loan Services
Eugene P. Watson Memorial Library
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71457
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Colleagues:
Our time has come! House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 129 is on the agenda of the House Education Committee for THIS Wednesday. HCR 129, if passed, will compel the Board of Regents to fund LOUIS at the FY 2009-2010 level. Moreover, it will at last provide a forum for an investigation into the bizarre action of the BOR staff who cut LOUIS last year without notice. If you all recall, we found out that LOUIS had been defunded from an article printed in the Baton Rouge Advocate in July of 2010! A program that returns six dollars for every dollar invested (which is a conservative estimate) was almost eliminated, if not for the tenacious efforts and true grit of librarians and library staff across Louisiana.
Now, with some measure of victory in sight, we cannot sit quietly and trust that others will look after our best interests, and that of Louisiana's future graduates. We must "go tell it on the mountain", because the opportunity to do so will quickly pass. The legislative session ends on Thursday, June 23rd.
Therefore, I urge all of you to email each and every member of the House Education Committee and tell him/her to vote YES on HCR 129. The names and contact information of these representatives can be found on the Save LOUIS webpage, http://www.savelouis.org. Please see the HCR 129 announcement at the top of the page and follow the directions to send an email to all of Louisiana's legislators with a click of a mouse, or a fax directly to a member of the House Education Committee. Letters sent by post will not reach our legislators in time.
Lastly, but most importantly, please email or fax your support and gratitude for the redoubtable efforts of Representative Michael Jackson of District 61 at larep061@legis.state.la.us
In closing, I thank you for all of your passion and hard work over the past several months. If you are in the Baton Rouge area, and you are able to make the meeting of the House Education Committee scheduled at 9:00 AM, in Committee Room 1. The agenda is attached in PDF format.
Sincerely,
Michael Matthews
___________________________________________
Michael E. Matthews MLIS
Head of Serials, Media, and Interlibrary Loan Services Eugene P. Watson Memorial Library Northwestern State University Natchitoches, LA 71457
A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives. A popular government without popular knowledge or the means of acquiring it is but a prelude to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.
--James Madison
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