Advocacy @ Your Library

Re: Advocacy @ Your Library

2007-11-15T13:33:27Z

CHICAGO Looking to improve your advocacy skills? Want to meet fellow library supporters from across the country? Get the tools to become an effective library advocate by attending the Advocacy Institute, which will be coming to the American Library Associations (ALA) 2008 Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, on Friday, January 11, 2008, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The Advocacy Institute will cover core advocacy skills, including message development and coalition building during the morning session. In the afternoon, following a collaborative luncheon with the Young Adult Library Service Association (YALSA), specialized breakout sessions will focus on making effective budget presentations, crisis communications, and passing bond issues/referenda. Attendees will leave with an action plan that they can implement in their communities or campuses. Advance online registration is $50 for members and non-members alike. Price includes lunch. To register, visit <a href="www.ala.org/midwinter">www.ala.org/midwinter</a>.

The Advocacy Institute is coordinated by the Office for Library Advocacy and the Advocacy Institute Task Force of the ALA Public Awareness Committee; in cooperation with the ALA Public Information Office (PIO), the Association for Library Trustees and Advocates (ALTA), the Chapter Relations Committee, the Committee on Legislation, and Friends of Libraries USA (FOLUSA). For more information, visit <a href="www.ala.org/advocacyinstitute">www.ala.org/advocacyinstitute</a>.

Thanks!
Max

Advocacy @ Your Library

2006-05-01T14:12:52Z

I wanted to bring your attention (if I haven't already!) to a survey which might be useful to us all- it's "Public Libraries and the Internet 2006 Survey." If you have a chance, check it out! It's part of a biennial survey being done by the Information Use Management & Policy Institute (FSU) and funded in part by our friends at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

<a href="http://www.plinternetsurvey.org/">http://www.plinternetsurvey.org/</a>

Max

Re: Advocacy @ Your Library

2006-02-01T18:04:22Z

I was reading the Winter 2006 Supplement to the Library Journal called "NetConnect" and saw this article called "Beyond Numbers" by Edwin S. Clay III and Patricia Bangs. It discusses how you can determine the *real* worth of libraries, and goes on to mention a book which I want to read on the subject. It's called "Demonstrating Results: Using Outcome Measures in Public Libraries" by Rhea Rubin, and will be published by ALA this year. By establishing measures, libraries can show the impact of their services and programs, and use this to prod the holders of the money to let loose of some of it.

RE: Advocacy @ Your Library

2004-04-28T14:23:00Z

From the GLA listserv:

"The Communications and Marketing Office today launched the new Tell Your Story! component of the ALA Library Funding Web site. The new ALA Library Funding Web site provides important information about funding cutbacks in libraries in states throughout the country. The Tell Your Story! component is an anecdotal collection that will allow library advocates to submit stories of how funding issues have impacted their communities, as well as retrieve stories to share with legislators, decision-makers, and the media.

With National Legislative Day around the corner, we hope that library advocates will take advantage of this new resource, sharing examples for use in upcoming meetings with legislators and beyond.

To view, go to [url http://www.ala.org/libraryfunding ]Library Funding[/url]. Scroll down to the Tell Your Story! area to submit your library funding story or to read stories about funding impacts around the country."

RE: Advocacy @ Your Library

2004-03-02T12:10:00Z

Hi Max,

It was great to see you at PLA!

You ask a lot of really great questions here. I have one thing to share. I am currently working in a library school in KS. I do know that some of the library school students went to legislative day in Topeka, just a couple of weeks ago. They came back fired up and excited about the potential for making a difference. I really think this is something that needs to be emphasized in library school - the need to get out there and advocate (and suggestions re: how-to do it).

See you in Boston in '06!

Brenda

Advocacy @ Your Library

2004-03-01T09:35:00Z

Hello all,
I just attended PLA in Seattle and of course came back fired up for another couple of years (until Boston in 2006 anyway). There were a some great sessions on advocacy, funding issues, building issues, grants etc. A lot of the material from the sessions should be available on the PLA website by next week - [url http://www.pla.org. ]http://www.pla.org. [/url];

I have a few questions I would like to pose...one is, of any of you who attended PLA, what is something new you learned about fundraising or grantwriting, etc?

Also, a lot has been said about advocacy (especially in the most recent issue of American Libraries) but what do you consider advocacy? Other professions consider it lobbying, pushing through legislature etc. What do you consider advocacy?

Do you have someone at your library who does this? (Friend of the library, trustee, an employee) How do they go about advocating for the library? What are some of the hurdles they face?

I know there are a lot of questions here so feel free to start a new thread with one of them! Thanks!!!
Max