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Press Release for 2024 DLA Candidate Survey & DLA Candidate Survey Results
2024, Support State Aid Standards
May 3, 2023 – Legislative Action Day
See the results from the 2022 DLA Candidate Survey
Thank you, Governor Carney, for making September 2022 Literacy Month!
Giving Tuesday, November 30, 2021
2021 November OMB-Budget Development public-hearing-calendar
Review the 2022 Legislative Calendar-Delaware
*Information current as of September 16, 2021.
Review the 2022 Legislative Calendar-Federal
*Information current as of September 28, 2021.
Review the 2021 Libraries and Legislators by district and school district for each Delaware public library.
For the FY2022 Funding Documents and info used for advocating, click here.
Federal funding for library buildings has not been provided in more than 20 years. But as the nation works with this new Congress to recover from a historic pandemic and reckon with the legacy of racial injustice, now is the time to think big. On March 3, 2021 the House companion bill of the Build America’s Libraries Act (H.R. 1581) was formally introduced. This legislation would provide $5 billion in funding to repair, modernize, and construct library facilities in underserved and marginalized communities. The Build America’s Libraries Act would prioritize funding to communities with high poverty rates, as part of a strategy to begin to reverse decades of underinvestment in communities of color.
Take Action Now.
Ask your Representative to co-sponsor the Build America’s Libraries Act today!
ALA Chapters Briefing – Build America’s Libraries Act
ALA one page flyer
Bill text: S. 127
Bill text: H.R. 1581
DLA Build America’s Libraries Act flyer for DE Congressional Delegation
ALA Data Brief – May 2021
US Libraries Hope for Billions in Federal Aid for Infrastructure – article from Commercial Observer; July 8, 2021
Post to Rep. Blunt Rochester and Sen. Carper September 3, 2021 BALA library visit
Library Value Calculator
How valuable is your library? Use the Library Value Calculator, created by the Massachusetts Library Association. The value calculator has been updated to include curbside service transactions.
What is your library worth – discussion on how to calculate labor values
Open Access Journals
The Political Librarian; v.4 iss.2 article 6
Relationship Management as a Successful Approach to Public Relations in Public Libraries: a case study by Susan Rhood
The Political Librarian; v.4 iss.2 article 1
“Million and Bossaller seek to address gaps in the research on political activity and lobbying of state library associations. Their findings provide a compelling if somewhat unsettling picture of challenges faced by state library associations as they seek to influence often uninformed policy makers. Million and Bossaller’s argument that state associations need to move from re-active to pro-active lobbying strategies is a compelling one” – EveryLibrary Institute
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Contact Catherine Wimberley (catherine.wimberley AT newcastlede.gov) to find out how! We’d love to have you part of the team!
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