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Many of the resources available in this summary and in the key resources below have come out of the Rural Library Sustainability Project and Project Continuum. Explore and contribute to the growing community of practice for rural libraries. Consider this your "sandbox" for playing with Advocacy and please, add your own toys!

Resources for Exploring Advocacy

• Advocacy Brainstorm: From your rural colleagues, ideas about the "who, how, and what" of advocacy for your library.
• Promoting Public Libraries: An excellent collection of resources for using data and advocacy to build support and funding for your library.
• Community Relations resources across WebJunction
• The Small but Powerful Guide to Winning Big Support for Your Rural Library.
• Friends and Trustees: Resources for creating, training, and sustaining our greatest advocates: library Friends and Trustees.

Action Planning for Advocacy

• Action Planning Worksheet: From the Rural Library Sustainability Project Workshops.
• Action Planning Samples: See how others are using the action planning process.
• Advocacy Action Plan Template
• Tools for Planning Webinar and Quick Links: Archive of rural webinar focused on action planning methods.

Online Learning for Advocacy

• Become an Effective Trustee (LE@D) Online Course
• Show them what you're worth! Practical Resources for Advocacy and Demonstrating Impact: Archive of a rural webinar focused on methods to successfully demonstrate the impact your library has on your community. Featuring the creators of Telling the Library Story Tool Kit.

What are your Tools for Advocacy?

• Join the Rural Advocacy Discussion or other Discussions across WebJunction
• Contribute to WebJunction to WebJunction by posting your ideas, methods, and templates.
• Email rural@webjunction.org