Please see the following message on behalf of Jon Martin, Program Manager, Chapter Relations Office (CRO)
State Advocacy or Legislative Chairs,
You are invited to the March "State Legislative Leaders Discussion" web meeting via Zoom. The State Legislative Chairs ALA Connect Group will meet regularly online at a "State Legislative Leaders Discussion" meeting throughout 2024.
These are informal meetings and provide an opportunity for state advocacy/legislative chairs of this space, to meet with one other and to discuss state, local, and national legislative issues. Members of this group serving on various ALA committees can share information about advocacy projects and ALA provide communication and support to your groups.
When: Thursday, March 28 at 6:00pm Central Registration is required! When you register, you'll receive a confirmation email with login details and the option to add the event to your Google, Outlook or Yahoo calendars. Reminder: The link will register you for all sessions in 2024.
Tentative Agenda
- Welcome and Overview
- CRO/OIF/PPA Office Updates
- National Library Week
- State Reports -
- Please create a slide with information for your state by duplicating the State Report slide (Heading is "Enter State Name") in the Google slide presentation.
- Your slide could include: Legislation you would like to highlight, resources created by your advocacy/legislative committees, or advocacy focused trainings, workshops, publications or other resources developed by the chapter or in your state.
- Please try to fit your information on one slide, if unable, please duplicate slide to create a 2nd slide for your state.
- If you submit a slide, we hope you are able to attend to speak to the bullet points. If you don't have time to complete a slide, there will be an open period after to share state activities.
- New: Slides from the prior session are hidden at the bottom of the presentation for your convenience if you'd like to update a prior slide.
- Other legislative items to discuss
- Wrap-up
Link to the Google slide deck is: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ExO6K-lQxAt0MSGaF5abRLJQjXfxNhW2w3ZCFugGycM/edit?usp=sharing
Zoom registration link is: https://ala-events.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdOCsrTsoGdKzwUxeE0RvvQwfe9LHtwau
Thank you,
Jon
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Aleah Price
American Library Association
She/Her/Hers
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