From Sue Irvine of the Michigan Genealogical Council...
Check out this article from the Lansing State Journal. This is in today's
paper, front page.
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20090719/NEWS06/907190625/1102...
This is certainly a day that none of us have wanted to see. The people in
Florida managed to save their State Library with a Hands Around the Library.
Please mark your calendars. Please share with your genealogy friends and
colleagues.
*Watch for Hands around the Library! Thursday August 13th a proposed date.*
Please - everyone RUN- don't walk to your local legislator's office and
DEMAND the library be saved.
Also WRITE to the governor. Tell your friends to write. Email this news
item and information about the governor's executive order #36-2009. Our
legislators have only 60 days to veto her order.... or it takes effect
automatically.
She's already dissolved HAL (Dept of History Arts & Libraries). If her
order #36-2009 is not stopped, the 180+ years of collecting Michigan History
materials will be lost. Never to return.... The Library of Michigan is
the 10th Largest Collection of Family History research materials in the
United States!
Jan Sedore, President
Sunfield Historical Society
13307 N Wheaton Road
Grand Ledge, MI 48837
jansedore(a)dishmail.net