Library advocates are urged to call or fax their senators IMMEDIATELY, particularly if they serve on the Senate Finance Committee. Ask your senator to support funding for the Texas Library Connection at $4 million per year. This is the program's current funding and insures access to a rich body of electronic educational information for students.

Be sure to tell your senator that "the Texas Library Connection (TLC) is a program administered through the Texas Education Agency. TLC was included in TEA's original budget request in Rider 21 of the Agency's budget. Rider 21 covered TEA's Long Range Plan for Technology Initiative, which included the Texas Library Connection, an $8 million biennial program ($4 million for each year)." Tell your senator that funding for the Texas Library Connection is crucial for student success. Describe TLC and it impact on students.

FOR ADDITIONAL TALKING POINTS:

For email and fax information: http://www.whattifhasdone.org/Senators.htm.

To find out who represents you: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/fyi/fyi.htm.

• Teel Bivens, Chair
• Judith Zaffirini, Vice-Chair
• Kip Averitt
• Gonzalo Barrientos
• Kim Brimer
• Robert Duncan
• Kyle Janek;
• Jane Nelson
• Steve Ogden
• Florence Shapiro
• Eliot Shapleigh
• Todd Staples
• Royce West
• John Whitmire
• Tommy Williams