The Annual Budget Hearing and Trustee Candidate Forum will be held on Wednesday. September 16 at 5:00 pm.
The Regular Monthly Meeting of the Board of Trustees will take place immediately following this event. 

Library Advocacy

Become a Library Advocate

Public libraries – and your freedom to read and access information in your local library – are under renewed threat from budget cuts on the state level and attacks on government institutions on the federal level. 

Your voice is needed to let our state and federal representatives know that libraries are an integral part of an informed and prosperous community and that library funding is crucial to bringing programs and services to all.

Please click on the links below to advocate for your library, and libraries nationwide.

Become a Library Advocate

  

Protect the Freedom to Read!

  

Contact Your Congressperson Today
To receive e-mail alerts when your action is needed to act on behalf of libraries, provide your information below.

Advocating for your library services is quick, simple and timely, and there is no cost to you.

   With the end of the 2025 legislative session in sight, NYLA is asking our Library Advocates to tell their legislators to protect intellectual freedom by supporting the Freedom to Read Act and Open Shelves Act.

Show your support and send an e-mail today.

   To learn more about the IMLS and federal E-Rate funding and to send a letter to our local Congressional representative, click here.

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2025 Legislative Session

  

Advocacy Questions Answered
The 2025 Legislative Session is in full swing and New York’s library community needs your help to secure key budgetary and legislative wins in the coming months.
 
Learn more about important library legislation and what’s at stake.
   What is the IMLS? How does the potential elimination of Federal E-Rate program funding affect internet access for schools and libraries? What is the New York State Library, what does it do and how will its elimination affect our local libraries?
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Local Government Representatives

Charles Schumer

  

Kirsten Gillibrand

  

Nick LaLota
U.S. Senator, Senate Minority Leader   U.S Senator   U.S. Representative for NY-1
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Anthony Palumbo

  

Tommy John Schiavoni

  

 
NY State Senator, District 1   NY State Assemblyman, District 1    
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