We know that most of you rely on your local and school libraries not only to feed your insatiable reading habits during these summer months, but also as a critical tool during the school year for help with assignments, access to computers and periodicals, and even a quiet, conducive and safe place to do homework. Tuesday, June 29th is National Library Advocacy Day --- a one-time-only event to be held during this year's American Library Association annual conference in direct response to local, state and federal budget cuts affecting libraries nationwide. All of us here at Teenreads.com and The Book Report Network feel very passionately about this issue, and we hope that you do too.
Our president and co-founder, Carol Fitzgerald, has written a piece for The Huffington Post on this current nationwide crisis, which we hope you'll take a look at and comment on, here. We also wanted to share a letter that she sent to authors last week asking for their support of libraries, with some ways that they can get involved. These ideas are for readers too, so we've posted it for all of you here. We urge you to pitch in and help us keep our country's library doors open.
