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SJSU Library Advocacy
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The unofficial, unaffiliated, student-led political account dedicating to promoting libraries, access to information, and literacy.

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Bernie's not wrong. Libraries need us, again.
Funding for the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) is at risk, and your voice can help protect it. 📢

Get started by checking out the link in our bio. YOUR voice can help bring notice to important community issues! 🗣️

#IMLS #EveryLibrary #LTE
August 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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IMLS funding isn’t guaranteed. Every year, advocates have to speak up to protect it.

➡️ Visit SaveIMLS.org to learn more about how federal support works—and how YOU can get involved.
📲 Share this post to help spread the word!

#FundLibraries #LibraryAdvocacy #IMLS #SupportLibraries #LibraryLove
Infographic featuring images of books and titled: What is IMLS & Why Should You Care? The Institute of Museums and Library Services is the federal agency that funds and supports libraries and museums across the US. They help libraries: 1. Get more books & resources 2. Establish & fund free programs for kids and adults 3. Give tech access & job help to those in need. 4. Preserve cultural institutions 5. Support their community with ever-evolving needs. Visit SaveIMLS.org to learn more about how federal funding support works and how you can get involved. Share this post to help spread the word!
July 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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A federal court recently blocked IMLS's defunding while they continue to look over the case to save the only federal funding for libraries. This block is only temporary and more work needs to be done to ensure that libraries will be able to receive the funding they need.
#FundLibraries
May 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Happy #internationalworkersday! Libraries get their own national worker's day on April 8th, but May Day is still a good time to think about how unions benefit all workers!

Go the extra mile with your support for #libraries and library workers and buy this book directly from the ALA store!
brown background with book on shelf. Book is white with orange and black text with black boxes arranged in a crowd. Book cover reads "Organize your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers". Poster reads "Support your professional development with empowerment! Learn about the power that collective bargaining has and how unions are important for library workers and the library as a whole. Available on the ALA Store! alastore.ala.org/oryrlib"
May 2, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Some good news for once! Gov. Kelly Armstrong vetoed SB 2307.
This proves that supporting libraries WORKS! As challenges and attacks on libraries continue, it's important to continue to keep this pressure on.

northdakotamonitor.com/2025/04/23/n...
Blue banner with books in the shadow. Picture of protestor in orange beanie with sign in front that says "Hands off". Orange stars are in the background. News article headline reads "North Dakota governor vetoes controversial library content bill by Michael Achterling and Amy Dalarymple. April 23, 2025. 5: 27 PM". Remainder of text across poster reads "Thank you North Dakota! For standing up to book bans and Protecting students' right to read"
April 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Book banning in Florida is continuing to get worse, and students in Florida schools will endure further educational neglect and infringement on their right to read freely.

What will be left for Florida students when almost any book can be removed with just a simple request from a parent?
Tan poster with blue text, faded image of bookshelves in the background. text reads "enough is enough No more book bans! Tell FL Congress you oppose the censorship bill HB 1539. Scan the QR Code to Find your Representative" There is a QR code in a blue box Tan poster with blue text. Image of bookshelves in background. Text reads: "HB 1539 would -Further restrict access to books in school libraries. -Require removal of any book following a parent's objection within 5 days, regardless of the book's literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. -Remove many classic books from schools"
April 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Censorship at the hands of the state is a violation of free speech. All North Dakota residents need to call Gov. Armstrong and tell him to oppose SB 2307.
#451 #bookbanning
Purple border, white background with an outline of the state of North Dakota and a red map marker with a star in the center. Text reads: "Tell Gov. Armstrong you oppose the library censorship bill SB 2307. Call (701)-328-2200" Purple border, white background. All text, that reads: "SB 2307 is a harmful bill that threatens access to information and free expression. It requires public and school libraries to restrict access to any material deemed "explicit", including online resources, regardless of educational or literary value. Libraries that fail to comply risk losing funding or even facing criminal prosecution"
April 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Advocacy works best in groups! CLA membership dues work towards library advocacy, networking opportunities, and scholarships!

Join today!
Pink poster with cartoon human with short hair holding a book in the corner. Person is sitting on stack of books. Text reads: "Join California Library Association. CLA. Why? Get access to grants for your library, opportunities to connect with librarians across settings, recorded trainings and interactive workshops. Interest Groups, Discounts, Trainings, Advocacy. Apply Here" There is a QR code to scan. Tan poster with cartoon person holding a book sitting in a corner next to a bookshelf. Blue cartoon flowers, x, and o shapes in the background. Text reads: "Why join the California Library Association (CLA)? As an MLIS student, you can apply for the Scholarship for Black, Indigenous, People of Color Students in Memory of Edna Yelland to earn up to $2500! Join CLA" At the bottom there is a QR code
April 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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With the defunding of IMLS, the removal of staff, and the recent layoffs of library staff at the state level as a result, the state of our libraries' longevity remains a question. Answer that question with action.
Black poster, black and white image of girls holding books. Green text overlay reads: "April 10th National Library Week. Take Action for Libraries. National Library week uses April 10th to call upon all library supporters to take action to support libraries" Green poster with black text, no images. Text reads: "April 10th National Library Week. Take the following actions. SAVEIMLS.ORG ALA.ORG/SHOWUP. For third spaces for the freedom to read for books, music, movies, and games, For storytime, for veterans services. For everyone"
April 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Californians:

Two bills are being introduced that would only help school libraries in our state.
Our school libraries can use all the help they can get! Scan the QR code to write to your legislator and let them know you want them to vote for CA SB478 and CA AB279
Blue and yellow flyer with cartoon books with pens and apple in corner. Text reads: "Support CA AB279 Media Literacy is crucial in the 21st century. Let's update the CA School library standards" There is a QR code at the bottom with the CSLA logo and words "CSLA" Orange and red flyer with clouds above a cartoon school house. Text says: "Support CA SB478. Elevate our children's education through a statewide school library lead". The bottom corner has a QR code and the CSLA logo
March 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Feel like your pro-library posts here aren't good enough? You should post it to the newspaper.

EveryLibrary has made it SUPER easy to send your stories to the local paper with their tools on saveimls.org

We need more local, community based voices to show up!
Pink poster, blue text. No graphics. Text reads: "Writers wanted. Letters to the editor. Looking for library supporters who are willing to volunteer their library stories to their local papers and tell them why library funding is essential. All skill levels welcome. Inquire below. SaveIMLS.org"
March 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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STE. GENEVIEVE MISSOURI RESIDENTS!

Just 3 weeks from today, Prop L will be up to vote

Vote YES to secure funds for your local library!
Your local library will be able to do more, expand more, look better, and overall, just be better.
Blue poster with orange cartoon hand holding a ballot card. Text Reads: "Vote yes on Prop L. April 8th 2025 Ste. Genevieve county library. A yes vote means: expansion of resources, updating of library facilities, increased community outreach." The logo for the Ste Genevieve County Library is in the middle, green box with book and gold fleur-de-lis. Text continues "Your vote, your library"
March 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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The executive order on Friday gutted funding for IMLS, the only source for federal funding for libraries and museums.

As devistating as this is, we have to remain vigilant and fight back however we can.

Call your representatives and follow the QR codes below.
Poster, alert symbol. Text reads: Trumps friday night executive order guts federal library and museum funds. Contact your representative 202-224-3121 then check out efforts currently underway. ALA (QR Code) EveryLibrary (QR Code). Symbol of phone in corner.
March 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Missouri Friends!
Those who live in Cape Girardeau:

Vote YES on Prop L this upcoming election to continue to support your local library!

Remember, last day to register to vote is March 12th!
Yellow and pink flyer with a picture of a hand in a ballot box with a slip of paper. Text reads: Love our Library. Vote YES on Prop L. April 8, 2025. A YES vote means: expansion of library services, maintenance of facilities, continued access to resources. Cape Girardeau Public Library
March 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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"By replacing independent, nonpartisan leadership with a politically aligned appointee, this administration is attempting to undermine the integrity of our nation’s historical record and the mechanisms that ensure government accountability."

action.everylibrary.org/nationalarch...
Poster with bookshelf of books with text overlaying: Petition: Tell Trump, Hands off the national archives! The national archives safeguards our collective history, protects, the public's right to know, and ensures transparency and accountability in government.
March 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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School information specialists (non-librarians) have been directed to review books for indications of what an executive order called “gender ideology” or “discriminatory equity ideology.”

While parents of the students fight for their freedoms abroad, those freedoms are being eroded at home.
Poster of North American map, picture of U.S. Marines standing at attention in the right. Text reads: Petition! Support the right to read in DOD K-12 Schools! The parents of these students are fighting for our freedoms abroad, yet, those same freedoms are being eroded in their children's schools at home. https://action.everylibrary.org/dodschools
March 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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IMLS is responsible for SO many library and museum services and programs that would simply evaporate.

We got lucky last administration when Trump's last attempt to remove IMLS was unsuccessful. We need more than luck to make sure it doesn't happen this time.

Find the petition in our bio!
Flyer, blue, white, and red colors. Text reads: "Petition! Support Federal Funding for Libraries in the continuing budget resolution" there's a picture of a voting box shaped like books. Text continues: "We know from the Project 2025 blueprint what is coming. We are not waiting. Please join us and sign the petition to show your support for fully funding IMLS in the continuing budget resolution. Click link in bio to Sign!"
March 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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SAVE GUHSD LIBRARIES!

GUHSD (San Diego) has recently voted to layoff dozens of staff, including 9 librarians.

California's school libraries are already the worst-ranked in the entire country. We cannot afford to lose any more librarians in our schools.
March 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Oregon students deserve the right to read books that are free from discrimination and represent them!

Scan the QR codes to contact your Oregon representatives and tell them you support the passage of SB 1098!
Flyer that reads: Support SB 1098. Protect the freedom to read. Protect oregon Students' right to library materials! SB 1098 prohibits discrimination and book banning when developing library collections, ensuring students have access to representative books. Contact your legislator with this find your legislator tool. Submit a testimony letter to voice your opinion. Combat censorship. more information."
March 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Libraries rely on voter support at the polls. The SAVE Act (HR 8281) threatens voting eligibility for millions of Americans, especially immigrants and gender minorities. Take action now to secure your right to vote!
Blue banner with cartoon drawings of hands pointing. Text Reads "The SAVE Act could restrict voting access for US Citizens who... DOn't have a passport: 49%, Women who are married 68%. Hyphened or changed names: 7% lost birth certificate: 9%. Vote by Mail: 36% Vote: 66%+ Voting is a constitutional right. Urge your Senators NO ON HR 8281"
March 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Did you know that California has its own library association? Join today for access to discounts, advocacy information, and professional development special to the Golden State!
Blue banner, text that reads: "California iSchool Students, benefits of joining CLA. Discounts: special student rate and discounts on conferences. Advocacy stay informed and fight for the issues impacting you. Professional development training job postings, and mentorship opportunities". Logo of California Library Association in the corner. Above, there is a QR code with text above: Join now!
February 27, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Black history lasts all year long.
#ireadbannedbooks
Red and black graphic background with four novel covers to the side. Text reads "Black history does not end in February... Neither should support for Black authors. Here's how you can help..." Text post that reads "Read: See ACLU-MA's Banned Books by Black Authors" list, and check out these books from your library or purchase them from your favorite bookstore. Write. Take one minute to email your state representatives, and let them know that you support the right to read and seek information freely. Fight. Join the fight against book banning by supporting Brooklyn Public Library's Books Unbanned. Books Unbanned provides challenged and banned materials special for teen readers."
February 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Washington state!! SB 5551 has hit the Senate! Let the Senate Committee know you support school libraries!
Red banner with a picture of the state of Washington and a row of books on the bottom. Text reads: Support the passage of SB 5551 Concerning school library information and technology programs. How can you help? Contact legislators on the Washing Senate Committee on Early Learning and K-12 Education and tell them you support SB 5551. Share SB 5551 advocacy efforts with your friends and colleagues. Connect with the Washington Library Association to support future legislation. Red banner with a picture of a computer keyboard. Text reads What does SB 5551 do? Emphasizes the importance of technology programs in public school libraries. Provides opportunities for K-12 librarians without certifications. Requires the state superintendent to strengthen support for library and technology initiatives. Furthers adoption of statewide library standards. Requires data collection on technology use in school libraries.
February 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM