Please see the attached from Gloria Meraz at the Texas Library Association.
Laurie Laurie Mahaffey, Deputy Director Central Texas Library System, Inc. 1005 West 41st Street Austin, Texas 78756 www.ctls.net [email protected] 512-583-0704 x18 800-262-4431 x18 ________________________________ From: Gloria Meraz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 10:58 AM To: Public Libraries Division Subject: [pld] Texas Voter Survey on Libraries Mailed to Local Government Officials Dear PLD Member, TLA is mailing out information to all Texas mayors, city council members, city managers, county commissioners, and county judges about the recent Texas voter opinion poll on libraries. This mailing provides a quick snapshot of the broad support of Texas voters for public and school libraries. (This mailing is also being sent to school principals and superintendents statewide.) The survey demonstrates the extraordinary, broad-based support for library funding, and this mailing is one way TLA is making sure that this information is seen by decision makers. The mailing should begin reaching officials in a few days. (For a copy of the mailed text, go to: http://www.txla.org/html/pr/Survey/TLA%20Survey.pdf). Your city or county administrators may have questions for you. Or, you may want to take the opportunity to send your administrators and local elected officials a note giving a "heads up" on the mailing. Your friends' group or library board/commission might also send a note. You can take the opportunity to highlight some of your library's programs and invite officials to visit your library, check out the variety of resources on your website, or just give them local numbers (visits, circulations, and attendance at job programs, for instance). To see the full results of the survey, go to: http://www.txla.org/html/pr/survey.html. We thank our sponsors - EBSCO Information Services, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., and ProQuest - for their support of this effort. During these very difficult economic times, it is critical that decision makers have access to information about what people in the state value. And, they clearly value public libraries. Best Wishes, Gloria Meraz Gloria Meraz Director of Communications Texas Library Association 3355 Bee Cave Road, Ste. 401 Austin, TX 78746 512/328-1518; 800/580-2852 (fax)512/328-8852 www.txla.org ******************************************************* You are currently subscribed to pld as: [email protected]. Subscription is automatic, based on member preferences. If you would like to be removed from all of your unit distribution lists, please update your membership setting "I do not want to be automatically subscribed to my Unit electronic distribution list(s)" via the Modify Membership Information/Choices found in the Members Only Section of www.txla.org.
