Legislative Update -- January 23, 2025
January 23, 2025
-
Library Days and Dates 2025-26
ILA is pleased to present Library Days and Dates 2025-26, prepared by attorney Phil Lenzini for libraries' guidance in planning around key dates for filing public notices and/or various actions required by municipal (city, village, and incorporated town) libraries. The list contains preliminary dates as well as deadlines and deals with such things as electing trustees, budget filings, annual reports, and numerous other required filings.
Tell Congress: Show Up #ForOurLibraries
With a new administration and new Congress in Washington, D.C., what will it bring to libraries?
Unfortunately, we expect some politicians to continue their attacks on libraries and Americans’ freedom to read and learn. Now is the time for us – and our elected leaders – to show up for libraries.
Libraries are facing unprecedented challenges: the increase in attempts to ban books, elimination of funding for libraries, reduction in school librarian jobs, and undermining of the rights of library workers – including at the federal level. We must face these threats by showing up: for the people who work in libraries… for everyone’s right to read freely… for a well-resourced library in every community, every school, and every institution of learning.
ALA has been doing that for nearly 150 years. We won’t back down now.
Today, ALA is launching a campaign to guide advocates in moving from awareness to action: Show Up for Our Libraries. Step by step, ALA’s Show Up campaign will equip library advocates for proactive engagement with their elected leaders.
Freedom to Read Foundation: Legal Victory in Arkansas
We are very pleased to report that Judge Brooks of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas has granted a permanent injunction in Fayetteville v. Crawford County, blocking the implementation of Sections 1 and 5 of Arkansas’ Act 732. The Freedom to Read Foundation was a plaintiff in the lawsuit. Visit the Freedom to Read Foundation for more information on the lawsuit.
iREAD Summer Reading Programs
Latest Library JobLine Listings
