By Andrew Albanese | Dec 11, 2020
As the clock ticks on a potential bill, ALA officials are urging Congress to include funding for libraries and library workers, many of whom were furloughed or laid off in 2020, as well as direct library broadband and stabilization funding.
“This is likely to be the last relief bill before Congress for several months,” said Alan Inouye, ALA senior director of public policy and government relations, in the alert, which urges library advocates to email their members of Congress, as well as reaching out to their elected leaders on social media. “Many more colleagues in our library community are at risk now, the alert adds, “just when communities need them the most.”