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From: Caroline Landrum <>
Subject: Re: [MIOAKLAN] MIOAKLAN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 26
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 06:50:04 -0700 (PDT)
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P.S. I also wrote the Gov., via her electronic "comment" form on the Mi Gov website.  And I called Senator Tupac's office.  His return auto-reply urged that we call if the situation was urgent.

-- Caroline

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Subject: MIOAKLAN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 26
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Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 3:00 AM


Today's Topics:

1. Now is the hour! (MiPolonia)


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Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 23:10:10 -0400
From: "MiPolonia" <>
Subject: [MIOAKLAN] Now is the hour!
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Fellow Michigan Genealogists,

Now is the hour!



The economic situation in Michigan and America continues declining.
Michigan's state departments are attempting to restructure, and legislators
are working on new budget proposals with huge cuts.

The rumor mill is lethal! As researchers we need to remember that a rumor
is not primary or even secondary source information, but based on, like so
much of our family information, probably a grain of fact which can be
misinterpreted.

At this time, there is a rather public rumor that one group is considering
closing the Library of Michigan entirely, and emptying the west side of the
History, Arts and Libraries building. The Library's collection might be
offered to a "local university," obviously Michigan State University,
which
has never had a genealogy collection and is itself facing large cuts.
Some form of legal and archival support for the Michigan government must be
maintained by law, but its format is debatable.

Now is the hour! All genealogists need to get into immediate contact with
their local Senators and Representatives, emphasizing forcefully that the
Library, even downsized severely, needs to be preserved. Make it plain to
your legislator that you understand our state's fiscal situation, and that
you are amenable to severe cuts, but that the statewide internet,
inter-library loan, electronic support, are crucial to Michigan citizens and
that you as a taxpayer feel they must be maintained in at least some format.

Do it now! Do it often! Get several other society members to contact
their legislators and keep track of which legislators have been contacted
and their response, forwarding this information to MGC (Joanne Harvey
<mailto:> ). Your on-site research team is
providing
speakers for legislative committees and will be a presence there.

On Thursday, March 12 there will be a Senate Appropriation Committee meeting
and the subject is libraries. Please contact Senator Thomas George
immediately at 517-373-2768 and show support for the Library.

Fight for the Library of Michigan!

Joanne Harvey, Research Access Chair
Michigan Genealogical Council







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