Resources

Information, courses and tools to help library advocates make the case at the local level.

• Advocating in a Tough Economy Toolkit
  The following resources and tools, including news clips, op-eds, and statistics to help library supporters make the case for libraries in these times.
• Add It Up: Libraries Make the Difference in Youth Development and Education
  Research and statistics to help advocates make the case for libraries at every stage of youth development and education.  
• Budget in the Crosshairs? Navigating a Challenging Budget Year
  This guide will help you prepare and plan for your library’s survival and growth during tough economic times.
• Coalition Building 
  Best practices of successful library coalition building from around the country.
• Cultivating Your Local Notables
  What’s in a face? A toolkit for cultivating your communities local notables and celebrities for library advocacy.
• Frontline Advocacy
  An Initiative of ALA President Camila Alire, this toolkit is designed to motivate, encourage, provide content, train, and educate librarians and library workers at the front lines in advocating for their libraries and their profession.
• Frontline Fundraising
  Library fundraising takes place every day and at all levels of complexity. This Frontline Fundraising Toolkit covers the basics of annual funds, memorials and tributes, online giving and planned giving so you can design a fundraising effort that is perfectly suited to your library, your community and the resources of each.
• Library Snapshot Day  Library Snapshot Day provides a way for libraries of all types across a state, region, system or community to show what happens in a single day in their libraries
• Library Snapshot Day Primer
  Learn to organize a successful Library Snapshot Day in your state with this How-To created by the New Jersey State Library.
• Library Value Calculator How valuable is your local library? Use this handy Library Value Calculator, created by the Massachusetts Library Association.
• Making Budget Presentations  Tools, examples and perspectives to make presenting a library budget easier, and to help make your budget presentations more compelling.