NYNJ Government Relations Committee invites you to its 1st Webinar:

Building a Relationship with Your Elected Official

When?  Wednesday April 14, 2010, 12-1pm
Where?  From Your Desktop!

Lobby like a Pro
Presenter: Robert Schmidt
Special Projects Manager for Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
with 15 years of hands-on personal political experience working with both local, state and federal elected officials from both major political parties.

The program is designed to guide you through the process of building an effective, credible relationship with any local, state or federal elected official. That relationship will maximize your effectiveness on library issues.  Check your listserv mail for sign-in instructions.

Dear Members,
I would like to draw your attention to the latest MLA activity on Public Policy published in MLA-Focus, February 18, 2010: The National Plan for Action

On February 10, MLA submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) supporting the National Plan for Action. Initiated by the Department of Minority Health, DHHS, the plan addresses health disparities in the United States and proposes twenty strategies for their elimination. MLA’s comments addressed the health literacy actions using results from the association’s Health Information Literacy research project.

Thanks,
Mahnaz

Dear Members,

I invite you to review the latest Health and Medicine Counsel of Washington update which includes memos from February 17th and February 5, 2010. The first memo provides a summary of Health Care Reform, Section 215 of H.R. 3845 USA PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009, NIH Public Access Policy, Health Information Technology. The second memo highlights the President’s budget for Fiscal Year 2011 for the Department of Health and Human Services, including NIH, Institute of Museum and Library Services and EPA Library System. The budget provides a $1 billion increase for NIH and a $21 million increase for NLM.

http://www.nynjmla.org/MLA-AAHSLWashingtonUpdate.pdf

Mahnaz Tehrani
Governmental Relations Committee Liaison