As of May 1, HB 974 has passed the Senate Education committee and is moving on to the full Senate for approval. We need EVERYONE to write the members of this committee and ask them to vote against it!

This bill, filed by Representative Josh Carlson (R-Lafayette), would change the requirements for anyone seeking the job of library director at a Louisiana public library. The proposed law changes the requirement that library director candidates have MLIS (Master's of Library Science) degrees, and instead states that directors can have ANY graduate degree.