MLA Legislative Day is April 2nd!

Your participation is needed at MLA Legislative Day scheduled for
Wednesday, April 2nd at the State House. This year, MLA is collaborating
with MSLA (Massachusetts School Library Association) for this important
event and our program promises to be better than ever. Our friends and
colleagues at the State Library have generously offered to supply us with
coffee/tea and the use of the coat racks outside the doors of the library.
At 10:00 a.m. prizes will be awarded to MSLA's annual Bookmark Contest
winners, and the first scheduled legislative briefing will be conducted in
Hearing Room A-1. Another briefing will be held at 11:00 a.m. and we will
have the use of Hearing Room A-1 until 3:00 p.m. This year, we are
requesting that everyone return to Hearing Room A-1 after meetings with
legislators for a de-briefing so that we can share feedback.
Our second annual Telling Our Stories event will be held during lunch in
the Great Hall. We will hear library stories from literacy volunteers Lindy
Keay and Fang-Chi Lee of Plymouth Public Library, business entrepreneur Michael
J. Keating, students from English High School and an Andover schools
principal, and Dawn Scaltreto, former president of Watertown Art
Association and enthusiastic library user/collaborator.
Our legislators need to hear about the vital role MA libraries play in
supporting and promoting education and literacy for people of all ages.
Please do your part in getting this message out by joining your colleagues
at the State House on April 2nd and visiting your legislators so that we can
tell our story to those who make funding decisions for libraries.


Jacqueline Rafferty, Co-Chair MLA Legislative Committee
& Library Director
Paul Pratt Memorial Library
35 Ripley Road
Cohasset, MA 02025
Voice mail: 781.383.1348
www.cohassetlibrary.org