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<p>We're still looking for Senator Peters for IAL in FY18!  -Steve</p>

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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 15, 2017 1:27 PM<br>

<b>To:</b> Steven Bowers<br>

<b>Subject:</b> #ALAWO Newsline - May 15</font>

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ask your Senators to sign the IAL and LSTA "Dear Appropriator" Letters</a> now. Find out if your Senators have signed the letter

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 or eliminated. After you have called your Senators to ask them to sign the FY 2018 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) letters, log on and add your voice to the record on the impact of IMLS and other federal

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The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures by Peter Devereaux, writer and editor at the Library’s Publishing Office.

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</span><span style="font-family:Geneva,sans-serif; font-size:16px; line-height:18px; text-align:left; color:black; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold">ACorporate champions urge all Senators to support FY18 library funding</span>

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<strong>House</strong>: Met today at 10 a.m. in a pro forma session. Will reconvene at 2 p.m. tomorrow for legislative business and is expected to consider measures under suspension of the rules. Roll call votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m.<br>

• <strong>Senate</strong>: Reconvenes at 3 p.m. and will resume consideration of the nomination of Jeffrey Rosen to be deputy secretary of Transportation.<br>

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Hearing on 'Transforming Government Publishing Office for the 21st Century and Beyond' with testimony from GPO Director Davita Vance-Cooks.

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Read</a>. Nonprofit Quarterly. The Art of Defending Your Nonprofit, Little Free Library.

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