08/24/2026
⚠️Tell Congress NOT to defund libraries and to protect E-Rate!
🔗Visit Livebrary.com/TellCongress for more resources, email templates, phone call scripts, and Representative information.
📖The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is an independent agency of the United States federal government. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States.
IMLS supports and funds many of the crucial community services libraries provide; things like e-books, summer reading, cultural programming, technology, job and career resources, and funding for critical library infrastructure projects. Cuts to IMLS could put these services at risk.
🛜Library connectivity can be a lifeline for students, families, veterans, small businesses, jobseekers, and older adults. As technology increasingly transforms the way we work, connect, and learn, our communities rely on public libraries for access more than ever. E-Rate makes that connectivity sustainable, predictable, and helps to ensure libraries maintain secure networks. Cutting E-Rate only starves libraries of needed resources to serve my community.
Thanks to E-Rate, libraries can afford the connectivity to provide life-changing services. When Congress created E-Rate in the 1990s, most libraries and schools had little or no internet access. Today, nearly every library and school in the country has a high-speed connection.
📞Contact your elected officials and tell them why IMLS and E-Rate matter to you!
Media Description: Library funding = community strength. Tell congress not to defund libraries and protect e-rate! Livebrary.com/TellCongress
