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ALA President responds to the Administration’s 2018 budget proposal

This morning, ALA issued a statement about the budget proposal released today. You can read it on ALA.org or below.

Julie Todaro response to the Trump budget proposal. “The Administration’s budget is using the wrong math when it comes to libraries.”

WASHINGTON, DC — In response to the Trump Administration’s 2018 budget proposal released today, American Library Association (ALA) President Julie Todaro issued the following statement:

“The Administration’s budget is using the wrong math when it comes to libraries.

“To those who say that the nation cannot afford federal library funding, the American Library Association, American businesses and millions of Americans say emphatically we cannot afford to be without it.

“America’s more than 120,000 public, school, academic and special libraries are visited more than 1.4 billion times a year by hundreds of millions of Americans in every corner of the nation. In 2013, 94 percent of Americans said that having a public library improves the quality of life in a community and the same percentage of parents said that libraries are important for their children.

“Over 80 major companies and trade associations from multiple sectors of the economy called libraries ‘critical national infrastructure’ in a letter to all Senators asking them to support the very agency and programs that the Administration has just proposed to effectively eliminate.

“We and those we serve will collaborate with our stakeholders, business allies and the more than one-third or more of all Members of Congress who have already pledged their support in writing to preserve critical library funding for FY 2018 through the Institute of Museum and Library Services and to save the agency itself, as well as other vital programs in other agencies that help millions of Americans.”

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Julie Todaro

Dr. Julie Todaro is a past president of the American Library Association (2016-2017). Previously, she served as the president of the Association of College and Research Libraries (2007-2008) and president of the Texas Library Association (2000-2001). Todaro received her Doctorate of Library Services from Columbia University and her Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

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