ASK YOUR LEGISLATORS TO FUND IMLS

 

Data provided by State Librarian and Archivist, Chuck Sherrill, about how IMLS funding is utilized in Tennessee) In addition to our ask, please contact your legislators to ask them to fund IMLS. The president’s budget currently eliminates and defunds the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which provides $3.3 million annually to Tennessee libraries. Our legislators need to hear how important resources, like TEL, which are provided by the state, are to your school. Chances are, if TEL was eliminated, TN schools could not individually afford to fund this level of database access for their students.

 

HOW YOU CAN HELP
Contact your legislators and ask them to appoint a State Coordinator of School Library Services to the Tennessee Department of Education and ask them to fund IMLS.
 
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