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Residents love their libraries. And thanks to the\u00a0 Old Colony Library Network\u2019s<\/a> (OCLN) Wired to Reach You <\/em>campaign, residents will be able to share what they love about their network, too. OCLN\u2019s small but mighty four-member legislative committee worked with MBLC staff to develop Wired to Reach You, <\/em>a campaign that helps residents understand that many of the library services they love are made possible by OCLN. Residents can go to http:\/\/links.ocln.org\/wired<\/a> and say what they love about OCLN and their comments will be shared with state legislators.<\/p>\n Funding to networks and library technology (state budget line 7000-9506 Library Technology and Resource Sharing) is a priority in the FY2020 Legislative Agenda<\/a> so the more information legislators have about how much residents value their networks, the better.\u00a0 Especially since technology has a changed a lot in the past twenty years; but what hasn\u2019t changed is state funding to support library technology and library networks. In fact, this funding is 36% lower than it was in 2001.<\/p>\n OCLN will launch the campaign during the week of January 14 and it will run for a month.<\/p>\n Wired to Reach<\/em> you materials are available on the MBLC Awarehouse (link). Please contact Celeste Bruno<\/a> or Matt Perry<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Residents love their libraries. And thanks to the\u00a0 Old Colony Library Network\u2019s (OCLN) Wired to Reach You campaign, residents will be able to share what they love about their network, too. \u201cStatewide awareness and advocacy campaigns are reaching librarians and trustees,\u201d said Dave Slater, Executive Director at OCLN. \u201cWe want to reach residents.\u201d OCLN\u2019s small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cStatewide awareness and advocacy campaigns are reaching librarians and trustees,\u201d said Dave Slater, Executive Director at OCLN. \u201cWe want to reach residents.\u201d<\/p>\n