| Committee Officers: | ||
| Chair | Ruben F. Aragon | New Mexico Highlands University, Thomas C. Donnelly Library |
| Secretary | Renee Goodvin | Central New Mexico Community College Library |
| Members | Poppy Johnson-Renvall | Central New Mexico Community College Library |
| April Kent | New Mexico Highlands University, Thomas C. Donnelly Library | |
| Barbara Lovato | University of New Mexico- Valencia | |
| Kathleen Knoth | University of New Mexico- Taos | |
| Legislative Committee Progress Reports | ||
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[su_column size=”1/2″]Priorities:
- Provide updates for the 2022 initiative.
- Advocate for the 2022 GO Bond.
- Address concerns to State Legislators regarding the distribution of GO Bonds equability between academic, public, school and tribal libraries.
- Work collaboratively with HED to clarify what are the eligibility criteria for academic libraries to receive library GO Bond funding and who administers the eligibility criteria.
- Determine our charges for 2021-22.
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[su_column size=”1/2″]Proposed 2021-2022 Charges:
- Advocate (NM Legislature, Council of Presidents, Higher Education Department, etc.) for the New Mexico libraries GO Bond initiative for the 2022 legislative session.
- To review with the Higher Education Department an increase in the inflationary percentage of the funding formula.
- Discuss, review, and begin to push for a legislative line item supplemental funding for New Mexico academic libraries.
- Continue to pursue one-time funding for academic libraries.
- Continue to collaborate with NMLA on legislative matters impacting academic libraries in New Mexico.
- Investigate and recommend to NMCAL members a potential collaborative project that could be funded out of biennial GO Bonds as a NMCAL-wide initiative.
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