Belong to a book club?
UBBCP is interested in working with you. If you belong to a book club, a reader or interested in volunteering and would like to be involved in UBBCP, we would love to hear from you. Contact UBBCP at 412-721-9191 or email dturner@ubbcp.org Click here to register your book club - REGISTER. Click here to volunteer - VOLUNTEER
Want to start a book club?
If you aren’t a member of a book club but would like to join one, we can provide information. If you’d like to form your own book club at your workplace, with your alumni association, in your place of worship, or with a group of friends, and would like to know how to start, UBBCP can help (call 412-721-9191 or email info@ubbcp.org). Click her to see some local book clubs.
Click here for Tips in Starting and Running a Book Club
ADVOCATE FOR YOUR LIBRARY
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/about/support/advocate.html
Please send copies of your personal notes, personal letters and emails to state legislators to:
Governor Ed Rendell
225 Main Capitol Building
Harrisburg, PA 17120
http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Governor/govmail.html
and
Clare Zales
Commissioner of Libraries
PA Department of Education
333 Market Street
Harrisburg, PA 17126-1745
mzales@state.pa.us
With the proposed cuts of library support in next year’s state budget, access to books and other materials will be slashed (H.B. 1416) or burned (S.B. 850) when combined with expected cuts in local funding as well. Currently, if your local library doesn’t have what you need, there is a good chance that another public library nearby does. By sharing materials, public libraries can quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively, satisfy your needs. But if state support of public libraries is cut—along with funding cuts for interlibrary loans—there is a real chance you will not be able to borrow what you need.
Everyone -- Children, Parents, Teens, Adults, Job Seekers, Seniors, and even public librarians –is asked to speak up in support of these valuable library resources. Please contact your elected state officials and ask that library funds be level-funded in next year’s budget so that books and other materials will still be available for you to learn from, to laugh or cry about, and most importantly , to meet whatever need you and your family may have.