www.nnylibraryfriends.org Is Available
Have you sent your letter to your local legislators yet telling them the importance of not cutting aid to libraries? If not, please take a few moments and do so. If you have, don’t hesitate to send another. Gov. George Pataki’s proposed budget calls for a 15 percent cut in aid to libraries, which would drop funding levels to figures last seen in the late 1980s. A website found at www.nnylibraryfriends.org has all the information you may need to send out a letter to your legislators. Addresses, a sample form letter and direct e-mail links are all provided. The site has information pertaining to particular regions in the North Country describing what the cuts will mean to these areas. To date, information has been submitted by the NNY Library Network, Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System, Samaritan Hospital, Franklin- Essex-Hamilton School Library System, St. Lawrence-Lewis School Library System, and Jefferson-Lewis BOCES School Library System. Library personnel are encouraged to inform their patrons of this site so they too may tell their local senators and assemblypeople how important libraries are to them. Patrons of North Country libraries recently sat down with staff from the North Country Library System and Northern New York Library Network to put together letters to be sent to the Governor and their local assemblyperson and senator to oppose the proposed 15 percent budget cuts to libraries. Photos taken during theses sessions are shown below. 
At the Hepburn Library of Madrid, Jackie Willmart sits with her son Hunter as they put together a letter on why their library is special.
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