Reminder…Deadline for submission of State Aid for Public Library
Construction  to System Headquarters is January 11, 2002.

There have been some changes made to the 2002 Book Replacement Grant
schedule. Printouts will be sent out to member libraries starting in
mid-March of this year. The printouts will then be due back to us by August
1, and the FLLS Board will issue the grants at its board meeting the
following September. The categories for the grant this year will include
juvenile, young adult, and adult nonfiction materials in the following Dewey
Decimal ranges :

Fanfare 2002: The Horn Book Honor List has been announced! Each year the
Horn Book Magazine selects a number of outstanding children's books
published the previous year. Most of the titles are owned by libraries in
the Finger Lakes System. Request a copy and take a look!

The list is available on the web at http://www.hbook.com/fanfare02.shtml. If
you are unable to access this page, please contact Diana (x.27) for a paper copy.

Make it your New Year's Resolution to invite your state legislators into
your library in February to see what is happening, in preparation for New
York Library Association Lobby Day on March 19.  Look at the programming
already on your calendar, and give your legislator's local office a choice
of dates for a visit, aka a photo opportunity.  Every library in the state
is providing services every day worthy of a visit.

While your legislator is in your library, use the time wisely to point out
what is being provided with state funds, as well as what additional
programs, resources and facilities would be provided if the New Century
Libraries bill was passed and funded.  Show him or her the good, the bad,
and the ugly!

Thank them for their support to date, and tell them you will be waiting and
watching for the additional funding needed now, more than ever, to help in
the economic recovery of our state and to provide the informational and
recreational needs of New Yorkers.