Bond B for New Mexico Libraries has PASSED.
              52% YES and 48% NO.

Look for our ad at the bottom of p. 38 in Prime Time for New Mexico Monthly. There is also a four paragraph article on p. 37 with the headline “Vote Yes for Libraries.

Our ad with a link to our website is up on “New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan,” a widely-read political blog. Take [...]

Hi everyone,

At the last NALSIG meeting we discussed ways to promote and get the word
out about GO Bonds for the upcoming election.  One idea was to pass out
information at the Laguna Feast.  Laguna Library is planning to have a
float in the parade Saturday, September 18th and informational booth on
Sunday, September 19h (Possibly on the 18th [...]

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The Center for the Book is located in the Special Collections Branch of the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System. School classes visit the Center and receive a presentation of the history of writing and books and a tour of the several replica printing presses, including a Gutenberg, owned by the Center. Thes…e [...]

begins at the New Mexico Library Association Conference in Ruidoso, April 7-9!
 
1. GET THE BUMPER STRIP

Get ready to publicize State General Obligation Bond Issue “B”. Show your support by getting a Yes on Bond B bumperstrip and putting it on your car. The Bonds for Libraries Political Action Committee has printed a thousand bumperstrips, which [...]

Yes the legislature approved and the governor signed Senate Bill 1 but the voters still have to approve the GO Bonds in November.  In 2006 they approved with 57% YES, but in 2008 the margin dropped to 52%.
Let’s all work together to make this happen!! All can help by contributing ideas, money, thoughts, great photos [...]

The G.O. Bond Bill, S.B. 1, was amended in the House Taxation and Revenue Committee.  They restored the library bond distribution to $2 million each for public, academic and school libraries and $1 million for tribal libraries. The amended bill passed the House this afternoon on a 46-19 vote. It now goes back to the [...]

The Senate did not concur with some of the amendments, and SB 113 died. It will be brought up again in the
Special Session, probably with the library amounts from the House side. It seems that the Senate conferees did not concur with a different amendment than the library part.

A Senate and a House version of a 2010 General Obligation Bond Issue are progressing through the Legislature. Of the two, the House version is preferable. The two must be reconciled and passed before the end of the session next Thursday, February 18th. Urge your legislators to support House Bill 226, which provides $10 million [...]

The day started with the orientation at the Santa Fe Public Library

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The capitol rotunda table had handouts with
information about NMLA and Bonds for Libraries

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The yellow T Shirt brigade attends the senate session
and Joe Sabatini visits with Senator Feldman

The New Mexico Library Association will hold its annual Library Legislative Day on Thursday, January 28, 2010, to show support for library funding and a 2010 library bond issue. The event will begin with an orientation at the Main Santa Fe Public Library, 145 Washington St. at 8:30 am.
For those attending the orientation, please enter [...]