Advocacy & Issues

Updated Rural Library Toolkit:

The newly-updated Small but Powerful Guide to Winning Big Support for Your Rural Library provides tips and tools you can use to make a compelling case for your library.

Haiti Library Relief Fund:

Funds raised through the Haiti Library Relief Fund have helped to clear and prepare land and create designs for new library facilities. Unfortunately, much more is needed, as the estimated cost to rebuild just the Petit Goave Public Library (pictured) is $350,000. Help ALA rebuild libraries through your contribution to the Haiti Library Relief Fund.

Choose Privacy Week materials available in the ALA Store!  Choose Privacy Week will be held May 1 - 7, 2012.  Start planning now for your library's participation and programming.

Library Snapshot Day: Show the value of the library by capturing what happens in a single day in all types of libraries. See examples and Learn how to use  photos, statistics & stories to make the case to decision-makers. Help ALA to gather statistics from around the country to compile a national “snapshot” in time for National Library Legislative Day, April 2012.

Tell both your senators to support school libraries in ESEA! Call your U.S. Senators today and tell them to include school libraries in ESEA reauthorization, some of the most underfunded classrooms in America!