PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE
Leah Wagner, Chair
Monroe Twp. Public Library
4 Municipal Plaza
Monroe Twp, NJ 08831
732-521-5000, x108
fax: 732-521-4766
email
Amy Babcock Landry, Vice Chair
Director
Alfred H. Baumann Free Public Library
Woodland Park, NJ 07424
973.345.8120
email
Meeting Dates 2011-2012
Meeting Dates 2010-2011
Meeting Dates 2009-2010
Committee Membership
Save My NJ Library
NJLA Funding and Structure Task Force Presentation
Advocacy Resources
Advocacy Calendar
Be An Advocate
Sustaining Equitable Public Library Service
Legislative Information
NJLA Legislative and Budget Priorities FY 2013
League of Municipalities Position on Library Funding
Funding for Statewide Library Programs 2007-2011
SUBCOMMITTEE:
Intellectual Freedom
PPC FUNCTIONS
- To monitor legislative initiatives and legislation, both in the state and in the nation, and to recommend a course of action for the Association and for the professional community.
- To work with appropriate agencies to initiate new legislation.
- To develop a legislative platform and recommend such to the Executive Board.
- To train members to be effective legislative advocates.
- To familiarize officials attending the Annual League of Municipalities Conference and other government functions with library issues and NJLA activities, and to encourage attendance at these functions by library staff and trustees
- To study issues facing libraries in New Jersey and to recommend appropriate steps to address these issues.
- In an emergency, the Committee may act on legislation without the formal approval of the Executive Board, but with the consent of the President.
- To coordinate the activities of the Intellectual Freedom Subcommittee and all other subcommittees and ad hoc committees under this committee.
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